Executive Creative Director

We design for the future—in ways that make sense right now. We’re strategic experts and creative explorers committed to solving complex challenges. With smart tools and global resources, we examine the implications of every brand choice, create new experiences, and open doors to opportunity.

**Landor Fundamentals** - Understanding /awareness of the local aesthetic and culture when solving client branding challenges (particularly with world class corporate/CPG clients/B2B clients). - Partners effectively with all departments to ensure delivery of on-time, high-quality deliverables that address client challenges. - Communicates findings and recommendations in a clear and compelling manner in written, oral, and presentation forums. - Master story-teller with the ability to command a room and build strong client relationships. - Coordinates projects with outside resources (freelancers) to facilitate production of deliverables, always with understanding of and sensitivity to both client deliverables and office finances - Ensures all correspondence, materials, presentations, proposals, etc., seen by prospective and existing clients are of highest quality and always relevant to the client’s issues. - Sharing and importing best practices and resources with peers within broader Landor and WPP network. - Interacts in a positive, professional, and motivating manner. **Creative Excellence** - Establishing an inspirational creative vision and high standards for the business. - Responsible for overall creative excellence, including problem solving, creative strategy, quality of creative craft, innovation within creative team, and impact of creative product. - Provides leadership and direction of the creative process; is the final arbiter of creative excellence for the design group. - Responsible for projecting Landor’s image as a creative center of excellence through participation and success in internal and external awards programs. **Strategic Brand and Design Sense** - Understands and is able to manage the delivery and implementation of brand strategies. - Effectively partners with client/strategy directors to merge creative ideas with strategic thinking, and recognizes them as co-owners of the business. - Has the ability to inspire great design internally, and successfully sell it to clients. - Creates competitive and breakthrough design strategies and plans. - Is able to effectively lead strategic design sessions with senior client groups. - Helps to guarantee the implementation of realistic and thorough design strategies that transform businesses. **Thought Leadership** - Responsible for ensuring on-going training and agility of staff in important strategic branding practices including corporate, consumer, environments, and digital. - Is proactive in sharing and importing best practices within broader Landor network. - Develops and champions intellectual capital within and across offices. - Deliver presentations of creative knowledge and expertise to the internal Landor community and within the external marketplace. **Commercial Awareness** - Ability to continually drive growth and new business. - Ability to translate from idea to action and drive team to successful execution. - Drives for results by monitoring creative studio utilization, maintaining high utilization and ensuring profitability. **People and Team** - Acts as an inspirational leader for team and internal partners (including client/strategy leaders). - Ensures and maintains cross-discipline expertise, by mentoring generalists and specialists alike; breaks down silos of ‘corporate’ vs. ‘consumer’ and fosters collaboration and sense of community within creative staff. - Provides motivation by rewarding talent, imagination, collaboration, passion and leadership. - Seeks out and identifies opportunities for Creative Director’s/Design Director’s creative growth and provides ongoing performance evaluations addressing creative quality, client development and profitability, collaboration with other creative leads, and staff development. - Supports and counsels Creative Director’s and Design Director’s in staff development and performance appraisals and issues. - In partnership with HR, assists Creative Directors and Design Directors in identifying new talent. - Networks with senior Landor leaders globally. **Organizational Skills** - Establishes and assigns creative lead to client engagements. May be day-to-day creative lead for some clients. - Facilitates the development of innovative, client-focused cross-discipline team structures and ensures the organizational structure of the creative team helps support the office’s overall strategy. - Partners with other executive team members to ensure quality, profitability, and client satisfaction. - Partners with creative leadership to ensure maximum utilization and efficiency of permanent and freelance design resources.

**Ideal Profile** - Bachelor of Fine Arts or equivalent education and experience **Experience** - 15+ years of broad creative and management experience; experience in both consumer and corporate and digital; world class CPG is a must. - Experience leading cross-discipline teams and leaders. - Global sophistication and ability to adapt to different cultures. **Specific Knowledge/Skills** - Strong people management skills. - Excellent client and peer relation skills. - Superior presentation skills.