Title: Associate Creative Director - Copy Location: New York United States - AGS1" token-type="text">Creative - Saatchi Health - AGS5" token-type="text">Specialist - AGS6" token-type="text">Hybrid - AGS4" token-type="text">144770 - AGS7_ARIA_LABEL 26-6316" data-label="External ID:" id="header-tags7" token-data="JOB_DESCRIPTION.TAGS7" token-type="text">26-6316 Job Description Company description For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work. If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people. So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat. Overview The Associate Creative Director (ACD), Copy is responsible for leading the creative work on one of our agency's largest client engagements. This leadership role includes assigning teams, inspiring those teams to consistently product exceptional concepts and final work, and working closely with account management to ensure that our clients are satisfied with the quality of our creative work, the value of our services, and our responsiveness to their needs. Responsibilities Specifically, the ACD, Copy has the following responsibilities: Creative/Hands-on Work (40%) - Help develop and review creative briefs that provide strategic insight and creative inspiration - Work with ACD, Art to produce standout and strategically focused concepts and campaigns - Take on appropriate projects and own them, start to finish - Manage and work independently, under tight deadlines, while juggling multiple projects - Estimate copy hours - Participate in client meetings - Lead concept presentations - Attend market research as appropriate - Share responsibility with planning to shape strategic branding Management (30%) - Assign creative teams best suited for each project based on ability and workload - Manage workloads to maximize productivity of the copy team, ensuring that everyone is busy and billable - Work closely with art, editorial and traffic departments to ensure that deadlines and budgets are met - Provide written and face-to-face feedback for annual performance reviews, as well as ongoing feedback throughout the year (written when requested) - Identify and Interview prospective creative candidates Leadership (30%) - Become the creative voice for your accounts - Develop good relationships with your clients - Work with account management to grow our business at existing clients - Work with creative management to address performance, workflow, and quality issues and develop long-range plans for the creative group - Lead the creative teams in development of concepts and execution of all projects - Assure that all copywriters are trained and, where needed, mentored to maintain the standards and expectations of the agency and the client, and to meet their own career goals - Demonstrate to clients that you understand their products and marketing challenges and are responsive to the strategic and creative needs - Represent the agency at client meetings and social events as appropriate Qualifications - 10+ years’ agency experience - BA degree (Advertising, Communications, Fine Arts or related field preferred) - A proven track record of creative ability and judgment, successful client contact experience, the ability to work collaboratively with account management, excellent presentation skills, successful experience in managing creative teams and multiple accounts, and the commitment to go the extra mile in time and effort to produce the very best work Additional information Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off. Compensation Range: $106,780.00 - $170,937.00 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. #LI-SH2