Senior Creative Art Director, Retail & Shopper

Wasserman operates at the epicenter of sports, music, entertainment and culture, serving talent, brands and properties on a global scale. Our brands and properties division works with iconic brands and rights holders, supporting business growth through all marketing disciplines. We're a trusted partner to every major league, team and venue, building meaningful connections between brands, properties and fans.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wasserman's presence spans 28 countries and more than 70+ cities, including New York, London, Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Toronto, Paris and Sydney. For more information, please visit www.teamwass.com.

Wasserman, London, are looking for an experienced and talented Senior Creative Art Director to join our Retail and Shopper team.
In this ‘on the tools’ role, you’ll be tasked to help shape innovative, engaging and impactful creative Global Travel Retail (GTR) solutions, for one of the world’s largest alcohol brands. Whilst occasionally being asked to pitch in and work on other clients from different sectors, this is a great opportunity to be part of a creative team tasked with pushing the thinking and boundaries of traditional shopper marketing.
 

What You Need:

• Be outgoing, sociable and professional

• Be self-motivated, pro-active and use your initiative when necessary

• Bring energy, positivity, a can-do attitude and enthusiasm to everything you do

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Have a strong attention to detail

• Be highly organized with the ability to multi-task

• Have a hunger and continuously strive to deliver the best creative, treating each and every project with the same dedication

Required experience / skills:

• Have 10+ years working in creative shopper marketing with a minimum of 3 years activating in GTR/luxury retails channels

• Be an accomplished creative thinker and designer who excels in creating key visuals with strong typography and compositions

• Experience in creating and developing global activation toolkits/playbooks

• The ability to develop strong strategic creative solutions and rationale

• Advanced ability working in the Abode Creative Suite, Google Slides and PowerPoint

• The ability to quickly get under the skin of a brand and pick up its TOV

• Have excellent drawing skills to communicate your thinking internally and to clients

• Strong knowledge around materials for unit build recommendations

• Have great social media and digital channels knowledge

• Confident presenting to colleagues and clients

• Have a good understanding of print production

• Have an understanding of how assets are created for F1 trackside, hospitality spaces and general branding

What You'll Be Doing:

• Primarily conceptualizing and developing a GTR omni-channel playbook – containing premium modular shopper solutions, consumer engagements and digital executions

• In addition to the primary task, help develop and visualize a number of sports partnership campaign activations in the GTR channel

• Working in a fast-paced agency environment to pressured deadlines

• Strong communication skills while serving as a brand guardian to help develop and translate campaigns into channel

• Being a team player to work with the larger multi-disciplinary creative team – from digital to 3D

• Help nurture the development of a junior creative team member

• Create client facing presentations and toolkits to help sell concepts

• Be curious and keen to stay up to date with industry trends, innovation, tech and retail/shopper activations

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