Creative Director, Copywriter

Creative Director, Copywriter
Bring high level creativity and manage creative output for clients across Ogilvy’s portfolio, ensuring effectiveness in branding and business results. The CD leads the creative team, motivates and supervises day‑to‑day operations, while driving both quality and efficiency.

About the Role
The person in this position plays a decisive role in increasing creativity and improving working capacity. Guarantee work achieves and even goes beyond Ogilvy's creative standard, and always ensure actual effectiveness in terms of the brand and Client's business. Responsible for all creative output and managing the creative process. The CD works as a team manager, motivator, and supervisor on a day‑to‑day basis.

What You'll Do
Client Management

Actively collaborate with the Account department, and be willing to communicate with Clients in person as needed.

Strategy

Provide helpful feedback to Strategy, and generate inspiring ideas in order to create even more high‑quality work.

Creative Leadership

Partner closely with the Creative Director and Art Director.

Coordinate and manage creative resources reasonably to improve both effectiveness and efficiency.

Review works monthly and quarterly, and report to ECD.

Organise the team to participate in different national and international creative competitions, and report to ECD.

Be passionate about innovative ideas, and encourage others to generate different ideas.

Maintain the belief in being creative, and display the power of curiosity and creativity in daily life.

Keep being patient, persistent and hopeful in pursuing the "Big Idea".

Earn respect and trust of colleagues.

Ensure that creative ideas are executed in an exceptional way.

Create a productive and "Big Idea" creative environment.

Responsible for creative and effectiveness recognition at local and international awards competitions and new/existing business growth.

Leadership & People Management

Be able to identify, attract and retain talent.

Be inspiring, encouraging and friendly to others, always work hard to make positive progress.

Build trust and respect with others, provide training opportunities to ensure others' development, and develop a team with professional ethics and effective performance.

Take responsibility and keep commitments when facing huge challenges or mistakes.

Provide different possible solutions to broaden horizons and achieve goals.

Abide by the WPP Code of Business Conduct.

Have cost management skills, and ensure that creative ideas can be executed.

What You'll Need

10+ years' experience in an agency setting.

Excellent management and leadership skills.

Experience building strong and successful partnerships with clients.

Expert knowledge of current creative trends.

How We'll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully, enthusiastically, unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.

Pay
$100,000 — $230,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Employer
Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.

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