Design Jobs Board

Your community:

Our design community helps create transformative brands that move businesses, people and the world forward. We believe brands can transform how we think and live – creatively, culturally and commercially. We’re not interested in superficial or incremental change. We make things different to make a difference.

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Your role:

Our Executive Creative Directors are responsible for the success of the business and our people.

Within the Design community, they set the vision and the standard, playing an active role within projects and the community by championing our culture and stretching others to ensure everyone is delivering the best work of their lives.

Throughout the company they are recognised as business leaders, commanding gravitas with both clients and teams, breaking new ground through unconventional thinking and creativity and taking responsibility for the commercial performance of their accounts and the wider business. This role includes significant new business development and organic growth responsibilities.

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You are responsible for:

Client relationship growth

• Being a trusted partner and advisor to C-level clients while ensuring client satisfaction and retention
• Understanding our clients business and our full offering, to realise growth opportunities in other areas of the business.
• Becoming the brand confidant with clients, using this relationship to secure future opportunities

Business development

• Leading the pitch for prospective clients, directing others through the process ensuring the quality of pitch meets the 3 c’s criteria of our work; creative, commercial, cultural
• Having a constant eye on our business, be proactive in helping us fill the pipeline with new opportunities
• Actively developing industry relationships to cultivate new prospects
• Leveraging learnings from both successful and unsuccessful pitches to improve our processes and win rate
• Growing our reputation in the world – speaking at big events and building an influential creative network

Creative direction

• Being the ultimate accountable creative leader  on our largest client relationships and new business pursuits
• Steering multiple large, complex projects with multi-disciplinary teams, as well as overseeing smaller fast-paced projects
• Transforming insight, data and strategic hypothesise into a singular, compelling and creative story
• Building great relationships with other WO seniors inside and beyond the creative resource and acting as a role model within a multidisciplinary team

Commercial Management

• Expanding the design offer for our business and developing our brand and ensuring best practice in terms of its use
• Having a strong understanding of what is commercially viable on projects
• Having an understanding of the businesses current position, working closely with Programme Management and Resourcing to ensure profitability on projects
• Ensure commercial understanding of those on the project,  encouraging them to take commercial responsibility

Design community

• Setting our creative course, with your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the world
• Leading local Creative Directors to ensure the creative excellence of everything that goes out of the door
• Developing, communicating and managing the expected standard of the community
• Leading a culture of learning by sharing knowledge and best practice
• Working across offices to align on best practices
• Champion sharing of feedback of work but attending and encouraging attendance to crit day

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Our focus on people and the world:

Wolff Olins believes in creating an environment where people can bring their whole selves to work. We are interested in our people having diverse points of view and different perspectives on the world. We set out to equip our people with the knowledge, confidence and tools to do the best work of their lives. Our purpose is to help our people create transformative brands that push businesses, people and the world forward.