Role: Senior Art Director - 12 Month FTC

Location:London, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid; x3 days a week onsite)

ROLE MISSION

Oliver are looking for a highly conceptual; experienced and well-established Senior Art Director to lead and drive the creative excellence for one of our most exciting and awarded clients.

We power our client’s in-house creative studio and are responsible for most of the brand's communications activity. Over the last six years, we’ve supported our client's mission to fund and maintain its important, impactful reporting and help keep its journalism freely available to millions of readers around the world.

Key to the continued success of our client is the continued conversion of readers into paying supporters. And that challenge sits at the very heart of this role. You’ll be responsible for advertising activity across all integrated channels – taking in our client's online platform, direct mail, email, display, web, social, press and OOH.

The ideal candidate will be proficient across press, digital, video and social with a strong conceptual background encompassing brand as well as product advertising. You’ll have honed your craft across a wide range of sectors and brands – with particular depth in media or culture a plus. Your book will show notable large scale conceptual campaigns supported by solid sales-driving activity. Experience of inspiring product focused advertising would be an advantage. Your work will be beautifully crafted, regardless of channel, and you will have a track record of award wins.

You’ll be able to demonstrate a strong grasp of both brand building and direct response principles and have an entrepreneurial mindset to make the most of the opportunities that present themselves in an on-site environment.

You’ll be joining a permanent on-site team of 12 others in Kings Cross, and in this autonomous and fast-paced environment, you’ll be expected to draw upon your experience and know how to gain buy in from your team and sell work effectively to senior clients. 

There will be an expectation on you to inspire and nurture the careers of the other creatives, guiding the wider creative team with hands-on brand guardianship, supporting the strategy team, as well as close client partnering.

This role can provide a pivotal step in your career, one where your skillset and personal brand will develop a great deal. You’ll also learn from Oliver’s unique inside ideas business model. And that means you’ll join only a handful of conceptual creative leaders with experience in an on-site way of working – an approach that is making the industry sit up and take notice

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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We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.