The Ogilvy Group Jobs 2022 Apply for Senior Art Director Vacancy in Dubai, UAE

Overview:

Memac Ogilvy is one of the leading creative networks in MENA with its flagship office in the UAE and a strong local footprint in the GCC and North Africa. It is part of the formidable worldwide WPP & Ogilvy network. It’s the only truly integrated comms network – with Growth & innovation, Advertising- Brand & Content, PR, Experience & Health under 1 P&L and under single leadership. Memac Ogilvy is the most integrated modern creative and effective partner for client growth in MENA. We deliver on this by combining expert and new capabilities for modern marketing solutions, with solid project management expertise for agile and effective delivery as well as a thorough and passionate People agenda.
The agency is the most awarded Middle Eastern agency in Cannes as well as a big winner at the local award show Lynx. It counts around 500 staff members.

Responsibilities:

To be high conceptual, creating ideas that push creative boundaries
To create great advertising campaigns with combined excellent creative judgement.
The ability to lead a diverse junior creative team.
To delegate responsibility and authority to the junior teams and to run an account on a day-to-day basis – i.e. interacting with other senior agency personnel, representing and selling the Agency’s point of view at client meetings etc…. However, you will ultimately be responsible for the work
Deploying the strengths, weaknesses and contributions of each member of his/her creative team
Being open to new ideas including those coming from subordinates
To run and manage challenging account/s
To set high standards while setting achievable goals for self and team
To have an excellent and consistent judgement in handling business, client and employees’ problems
To exercise maturity and discretion in dealing with clients
To understand fiscal responsibility, and treats client money as their own
To be consistent – come back with work that is both strategically on target and executed with flair and distinction
To be responsible for proper sourcing of the creative department
To keep the Group Creative Director informed about issues, and new campaigns and alert him/her of potential problems before it gets out of hand
Delivers work to brief on time and to quality standards and quantity required
Able to grasp concept of idea versus execution and understands idea when identified by others
Can identify ideas in own work and explain them clearly
Strong listening skills to fully understand the brief
Building good relationships with Account Management, Strategy & Social
Able to articulate their own creative ideas to other team members with support from managers
Understands and appreciates the nature and value of brands
Approaches all activity within the context of 360 Degree Brand Stewardship
Acts in the best interest of the brand at all times
Ability to apply a natural curiosity to uncover the unexpected around brands
Ability to generate lots of fresh, original ideas from a brief
Ability to push boundaries of original thinking to explore new creative solutions
Ability to translate the strategic creative concept into different creative executions
Qualifications:

To think creatively and devise imaginative and intelligent advertisements based on client briefs.
To push boundaries of original thinking to explore new creative solutions.
To communicate creative ideas effectively to a wide audience of varying levels of creative knowledge.
To translate the strategic creative concept into different creative executions to be presented to the client.
To execute creative ideas to the highest standard involving and communicating with the necessary creative team.
To modify initial ideas into workable concepts until the client is satisfied.
To align the copy with art direction and vice versa
To deliver work to brief on time and on budget, to the highest quality.