Role:- Creative Team Lead (FTC - 12 months)

Location: Panama City, Panama (Hybrid)

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Creative Team Lead will manage and oversee all creative adaptation work for our global sportswear clients. The right candidate is motivated, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, able to adjust on the fly, experienced in managing a team of designers, artworkers, and motion designers, and can quickly learn and understand a brand’s visual identity while empowering a team of designers in bringing it to life in accordance with brand standards.

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

You have a Design background, with a mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite and capabilities with both print and digital executions. Experience with design automation or AI is also a plus. You will take design adaptation projects from brief to completion, providing new ideas that align with brand guidelines and clients’ local needs for their market across Latin America while coaching a team of designers and providing feedback, guidance, and quality control on every project. 

Experience in client-facing communications is a must for this role.

Effective communication is critical to success in this role, both internal and in client-facing conversations. The right candidate is just as comfortable working with an individual designer as they are presenting to a group of clients or managing up to Regional and Global Creative Leads. 

ABOUT THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

Based in Panama working alongside our key LAM clients, our Account leads, and leading the design team, who are primarily based in Mexico City. The role reports to the Associate Creative Director, based in Portland, USA.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

• Take the lead on the development of visual design strategy and the development of visual design creative projects, ensuring consistency with the overall brand and marketing strategy to ensure the clients’ marketing strategies manifest through best-in-class execution.
• Responsible for the full design adaptation lifecycle from concept to execution.
• Working closely with clients during kick-offs and for the duration of projects to align on and adhere to creative expectations. 
• Producing beautiful and innovative designs that can work across multiple channels. 
• Developing a deep understanding of target audiences and the clients’ marketing strategy to deliver high quality results that have an instant, positive impact on the consumer, promoting the product or brand. 
• Pitching creative solutions in response to marketing strategies. 
• Tactfully challenging and developing the brand guidelines in concert with the brand and clients to ensure the creative work is delivered to the highest standard. 
• Providing leadership and direction to the design and artwork team for the best creative output. 
• Overseeing the execution of design concepts to final delivery. 
• Supporting the Regional and Global Creative Leads in ensuring that the quality of design and artwork in the team is maintained to a high standard. 
• Developing individual designers’ technical skills, providing mentorship, and coaching them professionally while providing project-level and long-term individual feedback. 
• Practising strong brand guardianship across all work, ensuring adherence to strict brand guidelines and educating teams internally on them. 
• In addition to adaption briefs, there are creative origination opportunities, and you will be pivotal in ensuring that clear briefings occur with clients, and conceptual designs are created with the team and effective campaigns are created for the specific markets.

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

Essential

• Creative expertise.
• Strong Art Direction and concepting skills.
• The ability to take and positively influence client briefs with innovative ideas.
• Confidence in bringing ideas and creativity to projects while working within a broad range of design guidelines across a variety of artwork collateral.
• Strong client liaison, with a proven track record of developing strong client relationships and a consistent record of taking, interpreting, and delivering design projects within agreed timeframes.
• Effectively organizing and prioritizing workloads to manage client delivery while simultaneously influencing clients with their own ideas and conceptual creativity.
• Excellent Adobe CS skills (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator).
• Ability to take ownership of projects from concept through to completion.
• Attention to detail with the ability to work under own initiative.
• Excellent understanding of the printing process and the accurate presentation of final artwork for production.
• Excellent project management skills.
• A knowledge of design for digital, print and web.
• Specialized knowledge of methods and techniques of graphic design and layout.
• Experience in digital, web banners, and social assets. 

Desirable

• A basic to medium knowledge of social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok.
• The aptitude to learn new software and programs efficiently and effectively.
• Experience working with international clients or on international projects where you’ve demonstrated your ability to create designs for global audiences. Experience in Automation and/or AI experience in adaptation

Client culture

As you will be working onsite at our clients’ office, it is important to understand and embrace their culture to feel truly immersed. Their key values are outlined below:

• Approachable.
• Strategic, and comfortable taking briefs from clients and interrogating them to give them what they need, and not always what they initially want, while getting to the truth of what they are trying to achieve (even if they can't initially articulate it.)
• Clear, proactive, open, and helpful with clients, contacts, and colleagues.
• Speaking up when needed.
• Bold, volunteering opinions, questioning conventions, and being open to others’ ideas.
• Prepared to invest time and energy into developing opportunities and learning from the experience, regardless of the outcome.
• A ‘can do’ attitude.
• Mentoring and developing all members of the team, recognising that this is the path to excellence.
• Connected, building and maintaining strong relationships while taking time to really get to know clients, colleagues and contacts.
• Trusting people to do a good job, giving them information and direction without imposing unnecessary controls.

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

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