A Manifest Creative Director

You lead the agency’s culture of channel-agnostic creativity - devising, developing and delivering thought-provoking, inspiring and rebellious strategies that challenge the norm and result in campaigns that change the world.

How does this role support Manifest with its mission?

We’re on a mission to build brands that change the world and our weapon of choice is creativity.  Your role is to turn every brief into an opportunity to produce game-changing creativity that will drive real and measurable change in the world and make us all proud.

Where does this role sit within the agency?

The Creative Director heads up the Creative element of the business, bridging the gap between Insights/Strategy and Creative Production. You will oversee work throughout the entire creative process, being informed and consulted on the Insights and Strategy phase, before being a lead player in turning that strategy into creative ideas that drive change. Once an idea has been signed off, you’ll work alongside, input and provide sign off for the creative production team to ensure the campaign comes to life with creative integrity and a high quality expected across all Manifest work.

You will also work with client service and project management teams to ensure project timelines are realistic and will produce the best work in the appropriate time, as well as pre-empting and informing the client service team if they need to manage the client to adjust deadlines

What is expected of a Creative Director?

• Build real solutions to real problems through creative strategies founded in audience insight. Our campaign should have a positive impact on the lives of our clients’ customers.
• Setting and executing a clear creative vision for the UK business that’s aligned with our proposition
• As a creative leader, you'll actively cultivate an environment where diverse perspectives are valued and all voices are heard, ensuring equitable growth opportunities for every team members
• Be the custodian of Manifest’s Bold, Beautiful & Brilliant philosophy in everyday campaign work
• Become recognised as an industry leader in unified creativity
• Ensure agency-wide respect for the creative process and its fundamental role in the success of both our business, and those of our customers
• Provide senior strategic counsel to all clients in the fields of brand strategy and creative communications
• Measure and report on agency creative performance in Executive Committee (ExCo) meetings
• Act as a CMO for Manifest itself, helping us to ‘live the brief’ with our own communications and establish the agency as a ‘brand that changes the world’ in its own right
• Honour and maintain Manifest’s creative manifesto to provide guiding principles for our approach to communications
• Work with the Group CEO/CCO to establish group-wide processes that ensure creative consistency across the globe
• Setting and executing a clear creative vision for the UK business that's aligned with our proposition