Creative Director

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.  Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.  

Title:                           Creative Director

Company:                  Hogarth Worldwide, Chennai (A WPP Company)

Reporting to:             Head of creative and content         

Location:                    DLF Chennai

Type:                           Permanent

Compensation:           Attractive package + relocation benefits

The Role:

Hogarth Worldwide, Chennai is looking for a Creative Director with a unique blend of creative vision and business sense to supervise and lead a team that is composed of Art Directors, Creative Designers, Graphic designers, Motion Graphic artists and/or other creative professionals.

 Responsibilities:

• Lead, motivate, and support the creative team within a time-sensitive and demanding environment
• Setup and implement career development plans for all direct reports and problem resolution
• Manage timely data collection to update operations metrics to achieve productivity targets, eliminate errors, and deliver excellent service
• Mentor and encourage creative team members to foster a positive work environment
• Shoulder the responsibility of the quality and completion of all work projects assigned to members of the creative team by helping them overcome obstacles that arise within a project and offer solutions
• Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas to ensure designs and content consistently and positively reflects the brand’s image and ideals
• Anticipate problems that may impede a project from completing on time and implement solutions
• Monitor results of team efforts and propose actions for the future
• Remain actively involved in hiring and training creative staff

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a creative director or Sr. AD with the top main-line agencies
• Excellent working knowledge with a variety of software programs, such as Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator with addition to Adobe AfterEffects/Animate CC
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to inspire the creative
• team to give their best
• Good comfort level interacting with high-profile stakeholders and decision makers
• Recent hands-on experience with applying design, copy, or web best practices
• Outstanding leadership and organization skills with exemplary interpersonal and analytical abilities

The Company

Hogarth Worldwide is a leading creative production company, producing advertising and marketing content for many of the world’s most famous brands, across all media around the world. Hogarth was founded over 10 years ago and has grown from a start-up to over 4,000 people, across 28 cities worldwide and is now part of the WPP family. Our rapid growth continues to drive us forward making Hogarth an exciting place to work and a great place to achieve your career ambitions.

As part of the rapid and consistent growth the company has undergone over its first ten years since initial start-up, we are expanding our services and capabilities in Chennai across Moving Image, Print, Digital and Transcreation Production. Our Global Delivery Centre operation in Chennai is located in the prestigious DLF Cybercity campus, the largest operational IT SEZ in Southern India. The Chennai operation is a strategically important large-scale production hub that services all of our global hubs.

Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen; we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.

Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

How to apply

Please send your CV to careers.chennai@hogarthww.com

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