Creative Director, dentsu Southeast Europe

Are you the person to push creative boundaries, ignite passion for brands with beautiful executions of creative work, and set a creative vision? We want you to join as our dentsu Southeast Europe Creative Director!

In this role, you will be leading an integrated creative team in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and across the Adriatic markets, and owning the creative strategy development to produce differentiating ideas for our clients to grow. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Delivers integrated communications solutions, creative platforms, and executions
• Realises the strategic direction and creative vision of the agency across the region
• Works closely with the Southeast Europe’s Business Directors and Strategy leads to develop differentiating and original creative concepts and award-winning creative work to impact a client’s business to great effect
• Takes ownership for the delivery of the client’s brand vision while ensuring the creative product meets strategic goals and client expectations 
• Provides creative leadership to new business activities when necessary 
• Creatively supports the effective use of technology and its applications to solve business challenges
• Champions, defines and feeds back on the creative process and output, quality of briefs, regular reviews, feedback channels, creative quality and collaboration 
• Leads the creative team through regular work reviews, check-ins, goal planning and training. Mentors’ direct reports, creates a supportive culture and encourages people to consistently excel
• Participation in the Southeast Europe executive team, reporting to CEE (Central and East Europe) Creative Lead

Experience & Expertise

• Considerable leadership experience (+8 years), developed in a relevant media business or creative environment, that evidences a strong understanding of budgets, forecasting and financial controls, including ownership of profit and loss; project management, and resource allocation.
• Excellent knowledge of Romanian advertising and marketing landscape, any considerable experience from Bulgarian and Croatian landscapes is considered as an advantage.
• An exceptional track record of the development of successful creative and production development partnerships. 
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of creative opportunities, how to identify, prioritise and pursue them to contract through the ability to negotiate partnerships at a senior level. 
• Strong experience in the fields of creativity, vision, and ability to deliver big ideas from strategy development to execution.
• Good comfort level interacting with high-profile clients and industry professionals
• Familiarity with a variety of software programs. 
• Talent in presenting information concisely and accurately, with keen attention to detail.

Leadership skills:

• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, presentational and pitching skills combined with the ability to influence at all levels, and in complex stakeholder environments.
• Ability to influence, engage and motivate highly talented people to inspire great performance across departments
• A collaborative management style and an excellent people manager who can delegate responsibilities effectively; demonstrated by leadership in managing teams - setting clear objectives and managing performance.

Complexity: 

• Ability to work effectively in a complex, diverse, and changing environment
• Ability to balance being highly analytical and creative 
• Ability to think strategically, critically, and collaboratively to support the development of detailed strategic plans. 

Personal:

• Commitment to work as part of a team. 
• Practical, adaptable, and able to work on multiple activities under pressure and to tight deadlines. 
• Fluent in English  

Package Description:

• An exciting, new and independent role with big impact on the shaping of the future across the Southeast European Region
• Your position will be based in Bucharest, Romania, and will require some travelling across the region. We work in full hybrid-work-model, where people have the flexibility to decide how much they want to work from the office and from home. 
• Competitive compensation 
• Yearly bonus scheme 
• Flexible working hours and sick, personal, and parental leave. 
• Additional free days for volunteering and mental health activities 
• Health assurance
• Full tech equipment incl. laptop, mobile phone, and mobile plan 
• Full access to Dentsu’s international training and development programs
• Work closely with the world’s biggest media partners to access exclusive features and products.

About the Company:

By joining dentsu, you will join 66.000 colleagues in 145 countries across the world who create world-class end-to-end marketing communications solutions. We help our clients to win, keep and grow their best customers with the help of best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative.

In Southeast Europe, dentsu works with media agencies Carat, dentsu X and iProspect and creative agency Isobar, supported by its specialized divisions. We all share a joined ambition: to provide our clients with the invitation to the never before. Our values, the 8 ways to the never before, guide us to be a Force for Good, Climbing High and Making it real. We believe in open teaming, radical collaboration and providing the best integrated marketing solutions beyond agency and service lines.

We operate in 10 markets over Southeast Europe – Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Albania – with more than 300 dedicated specialists.

Diversity & Inclusion

We value the strength diversity brings to our business and are working hard to build a more inclusive workplace. We are happy to discuss all flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles – we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly.

How to apply

Please, submit your resume and a cover letter in English at: southeast.europe@dentsu.com 

Only shortlisted applicants, who have submitted all required documents, will be contacted for an interview. All applications will be treated in strict confidentiality.

Deadline for applications: 

January 22, 2022