Associate Creative Director, Copy | Personalised Content Team

August 21

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Description

• Your primary focus will be getting the very best work possible out the door. • You will nurture and develop our Toronto-based copywriters, ensuring their main focus is delivering top-quality copy and brand messaging for multiple clients. • You will have the full support of our UK offices and our global Copy Team (50+ members). • The ACD, Copy is a client-facing role, and must confidently and effectively represent DEPT® in pitches, reviews, and kickoffs. • You will be the primary go-to for our clients when they have content and messaging concerns. • As a People Manager, you are required to understand, organise, and motivate people to achieve extraordinary things. • You will guide thinking and behaviour in others to ensure the most successful outcomes are achieved. • Additionally, you will bring your strategic thinking and creativity to the forefront. • You will help inspire, shape, and create campaign concepts and oversee brand guidelines and usage manual development. • You will also evaluate and improve team processes, ensuring efficiency at every step.

Requirements

• At least 7+ years experience in a creative leadership role. • Inspirational creativity. • Good team leadership, mentorship, and persuasion skills. • A clear communicator with the gravitas to attain respect from the copy and creative teams, wider agency, and clients. • Ability to build rapport quickly and maintain relationship networks. • Deep and proven understanding of marketing, branding, communications, and business objective application. • Clear understanding of when to apply different messaging skills, ideation, brand storytelling, direct communications, emotive concepts, etc. • Strong copy portfolio with examples of brand messaging. • Original thinker who provides high-level client service; develops and implements new and innovative resolutions. • Advanced knowledge of marketing copy/brand storytelling techniques, and tools. • Knows and effectively uses fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures to complete work efficiently and effectively.

Benefits

• 15 days Paid PTO • 10 Public Holidays + Birthday off • Medical, Dental, and Mental Health Support/Benefits (through Canada Life Insurance) • Learning & growth certifications/certifications • Enhanced Family Leave (after 1 year) • A flexible, hybrid working policy • Buddy Program: You will be paired with a ‘Buddy’ to help you through your first weeks’ at DEPT® • Tons of Office perks in our Toronto office! Enjoy biweekly breakfasts and lunches, tons of free snacks, and of course team events on the regular! • A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards. • Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together! • The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications. • Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.