• Job Title: Conceptual Creative
• Level & Responsibility: This role will manage projects ensuring all creative work is a high-quality answer to brief
• Salary: 39,000+ per annum, depending on experience plus a 10% bonus scheme
• Location & Hybrid Working: 1 day a week in our London office
  

The role

We are looking for a Conceptual Creative to join our Creative Team at SMG. In this role, you will be responsible for helping improve the creative output and make the most of every conceptual opportunity that comes our way. You will be involved in delivering well-thought-through, beautifully art directed/designed ideas across a whole spectrum of consumer touch points such as in-store, OOH, print and social to name a few, and will be adept at turning strategic and brand visions into great creative solutions. Our creative offering is still evolving, so you will need to both an explorer and an entrepreneur.

You will be a creative storyteller who understands the importance of having an idea at the centre of every piece of work. You’re probably from an art direction or design background. But not necessarily. What’s more important is that you’re from an ideas background.

Why SMG?

We are dedicated to supporting our employees to be the best version of themselves both inside and outside of work. We have an extraordinary culture built by exceptional people and it’s because of this that we’ve been recognised by Best Companies within the top 5 best Marketing & Media agencies to work for, with a World Class and Outstanding accreditation across the past 2 years. 

We are also dedicated to continuously reviewing and improving our benefits package to offer the best that we can for our people. We have a whole page dedicated to our benefits here, but here's some of our favourites...

💰 10% discretionary bonus scheme

🧘‍♂️ £1,800 yearly wellbeing fund (on top of your salary!) towards your personal wellbeing and passions

🫶 4 additional Wellbeing Days - one to be taken each quarter, dedicated to focusing on your wellbeing

📚 £500 yearly “Uni Fund” towards learning and development

🎧 Free headspace subscription

🕐 4pm Friday finishes all year round

🥳 Two fully paid conferences a year at Summer & Winter, as well as a dedicated team that put on activities and celebrations throughout the year

Why you?

In line with our company values, within your role you'll want to stay honest, stay hungry, stay foolish, and most importantly, have fun! More specifically, you'll have / be:

• Experienced working as a Conceptual Creative in a fast-paced marketing, digital or media agency environment - or similar.
  • Can share a portfolio of conceptual examples across multimedia channels - produced for agencies and brands.
  • You consider both visual and messaging when conceptualising creative ideas.
  • The ability to manage your time and prioritise work to ensure deadlines are met.
  • Independently motivated but can also play your part in a collaborative team environment.
  • Driven by creative excellence with an expectation of delivering the best possible work, no matter the project size or budget.
  • A confident and engaging communicator with the ability to articulate and present work internally and externally.
  • Comfortable working in Adobe Creative Suite; InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
  • As comfortable producing scamps and mood boards to communicate an idea, as Mac visuals.
  • You understand that briefs that are data driven and can help you be more creative by providing insights that inspire new campaigns.
  • You are building your knowledge in creative platforms, Ai and software, knowing exactly how to use these to compliment creativity.

P.s. we try really hard to make sure that we list only essential criteria here, BUT if you think you can do an amazing job, yet don't have every single thing on this list, we'd still love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

We pride ourselves on creating challenging and exciting opportunities, meaning that no two days are the same. However, here's an idea of what your responsibilities will look like:

• Supporting the Creative Director in concepting, designing and delivering top conceptual solutions for SMG clients.
• Taking the lead on conceptual projects.
• Working closely with other departments and stakeholders to achieve great creative objectives.
• Being involved in a project from the concept stage, which might be scamps to final mocked-up versions.
• Creating, art directing and writing (messaging) effective concepts that are on brief, on time and on budget.
• Thinking strategically to create ideas that turn business problems and brand visions into reality with creative proposals of the highest standard.

More information and resources to support you & your application...

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