Senior Creative Lead - Streaming

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General Summary:
Warner Bros. Discovery Creative APAC is the multi-award-winning in-house agency creating brand identities, on-air promotions, advertising, branded content and communications for consumer, trade and corporate use across a range of media.
Reporting to the Creative Director ANZ, the Leads core responsibility is to translate marketing briefs into powerfully effective ideas and creative concepts (primarily on-air promos, digital & cross-media campaigns), on time, budget, brand and brief. Where appropriate they will write and/or execute creative work themselves. They will have a close working relationship with the design team, wider APAC creative teams, marketing and channel management.
Key Responsibilities:

• Receive and effectively interpret marketing briefs for Streaming

• Generate and present ideas that are effective across all media.

• Build close working relationships with Marketing to better understand their needs and provide high quality and proactive creative solutions.

• Provide sign-off of creative work and present / sell-in to marketing, channel management and their clients as needed.

• Write, direct and produce creative and other materials as required.

• Be a mentor for creative team members, providing coaching, creative direction and supervision, continually assessing and motivating others.

• Ensure delivery of innovative creative AND media, using the best and most effective production techniques

• Act as a brand champion and guardian, ensuring consistency (of brand and tone of voice) across all Streaming Creative assets

• Support the CD as required on ad hoc projects - branding, sizzles & APAC wide creative solutions where needed.

• Collaboration with other creative leads in the region and understanding of the APAC portfolio of brands.

Qualities:

• Minimum 5years in a senior role, leading a creative team

• Driven individual with the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Strong leadership capability and creative support for the CD.

• Solutions based thinking and ability to create internal efficiencies/prioritisation where required.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to work within a team environment and independently when required.

• Highly creative, able to work across multiple projects at the same time.

• Strong presentation skills and building creative decks.

• Demonstrable track record of creative excellence.

• People management experience is critical, including the ability to assess, motivate, coach creative and production staff across linear and digital.

• Strong understanding of Discovery Portfolio / Streaming brands & target audiences.

• Strong collaboration with internal marketing teams and ability to manage creative KPI's.

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