Freelance Creative Director- Shopper

USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expContract

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Owns and leads the brand-wide creative vision and client-facing leadership across channels.

  • Lead the creative strategy for clients and new business prospects
  • Must-have: 10+ years in advertising with 5+ years managing a creative team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Determines the final conceptual & aesthetic look and feel for a variety of integrated assignments, from social to digital to traditional marketing efforts, either through their own work or the management of their team of art directors, copywriters, and designers.
  • Ensures our creative product continues to exceed expectations and therefore gets recognized
  • Concepts and/or writes creative think pieces to help promote BC and our intellectual capital
  • Leads the strategic creative concepts for clients and new business prospects
  • Owns the creative vision of the brand’s identity across all channels
  • Continues to evolve in the agency’s progressive creative thinking in collaboration with the SVP, Creative
  • Maintains knowledge and dissemination of ongoing exploration of what is cutting edge in design and concepting in the industry
  • Assists the Business Development department on creative think pieces, pitch development & process, and publicity for our creative product
  • Serves as the lead client-facing creative representative to most clients and new business prospects
  • Leads the day to day creative/client leadership communications and objectives.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university preferred.
  • Minimum 10 years’ experience at an advertising agency (or equivalent) and at least 5 years’ experience managing a creative team
  • Must possess excellent design or writing experience across a variety of integrated mediums, specifically tv/video, print, digital, shopper marketing and social media executions

Preferred

  • Portfolio or Ad School training a plus
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Blue Chip

Blue Chip is an independent, full-service Brand Commerce agency. We bring change by uniting brand building and sales performance. We build brands over time and drive sales overnight.

Founded in 1982
Northbrook, Illinois, USA
431 employees (58 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.3%
Direct
49.5%
Referral
5.9%
Social
13.8%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~431

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
40 (9% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
12.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1