Design Director

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage the overall creative and production departments from goal setting, creative resourcing, business development and people management with the Regional Creative Director / VP Design Greater Asia
• Uphold and elevate the overall creative output of the deigns and development of key processes to ensure the highest level of creativity is achieved for the assigned tasks
• Lead, coach, manage and mentor a team of art directors, designers, copywriter and when required, multi-media producers including CGI artists (for D / CGI projects with Marks NA or MNL team support)
• Support the overall direction of the creative team and enforce accountability when standards are not met
• Work with the Regional Creative Director and VP, Design to develop and grow the creative department staffing strategies and plans, including; team performance, composition, expertise, skills, training and mentoring
• Work directly with client leads and strategy to establish the creative / marketing objectives, strategies, tactics and required creative executions
• Actively participate in client presentations (both up-front fact-finding meetings, presentation of finished creative strategies and executions; workshops or work session in collaboration with Strategy and Account Management Team)
• Build trust-based relationships with Key Clients for regional and global clients with the Account Management teams
• Leading by example, inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief.
• Approving work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output. Support or lead client presentation with Account Management Team.
• Acting as the design consultant to Account / Client Management, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable best-in-class design
• Take part in campaign communication and concept development and oversee creative work end to end with the support of Art Directors.
• Be the leading creative on all work spanning from global to regional or market campaigns concepts, toolkit designs working with the creative teams for the Key Client
• Partake in developing creative briefs based on business briefs received from Key Client Trade Marketing Teams when required.
• Strong understanding and experience within the Chinese / APAC digital eco-system
• Maximising design resources, managing team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.
• Growing the Hong Kong team by coaching, setting clear objectives, following the PDR / appraisal process with Regional Creative Director / VP Design.
• Ensuring your team follow file, server, naming conventions, business policies and process.

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