The Creative Director is responsible for leading and inspiring a team of talented creatives, encouraging a collaborative work environment, and challenging the team to push our ideas to the next level. The Creative Director ensures client satisfaction by working closely with the Group Creative Director and internal teams safeguarding program delivery, and is accountable for maintaining and evolving Fusion quality of creative work. The right person in this role will be skilled in creative strategy and productive brainstorming, creating inspiring decks with a powerful client presence, and successfully developing a team.

Responsibilities:

• Building presentation decks that bring ideas to life
• Actively leading in brainstorms and coming up with marketing solutions
• Critiquing headlines, body copy, social media content, presentation decks, concept statements, ads, scripts, websites, and more
• Maintain overall satisfaction and retention of clients on assigned programs
• Assist leadership team in planning both short and long term strategic objectives for the client
• Work with Group Creative Director in leading Creative and Content Teams, educate and develop each team member in an effort to prepare them to take on the next level role
• Capacity to write clear and inspiring Program / Creative Briefs
• Direct the operation of client programs including: budgeting, adherence to timelines, and marketing communications plans
• Collaborate with internal departments and account team to ensure client timelines are met
• Participate in edits and proofing of content delivered to clients
• Identify opportunities for improvement
• Accountable for making sound decisions surrounding the financial performance
• Reconciles and adheres to budgets for each client’s program
• Requests program number and informs Finance team of SOW terms; prepares Accounts Receivable team with documentation to be used in collection if needed
• Perform other duties as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Marketing, Journalism or relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years related experience in an agency field, experience in both traditional and digital media
• Experience managing a creative team - performance management, reviews, employee development, etc.
• Computer literacy with strong proficiency Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite
• Approachable, collaborative, results-oriented, problem-solver who can work with minimal direction, evaluating best practices and offering effective solutions
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal – not afraid to have difficult discussions
• Team building skills, proactively seeking opportunities to develop team members
• Strong operational/project management experience
• Excellent organizational, presentation and communication (verbal and written) skills
• Ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses
• Must be able to juggle several projects at one time
• Thrives in a collaborative environment