- Challenge creative briefs and your creative team's thinking while understanding project requirements to create change-making work.
- Be fluent in creating fearless campaign ideas and building presentations that are thought provoking and show how the ideas work across different channels.
- Produce clear, consistently fresh and surprising ideas and copy in-line with the clients' brand tone of voice and strategy.
- Work in a close-knit creative partnership with an Art Director and Creative Lead to generate campaign ideas and see them through from concepts to completion.
- Amend, revise, or redevelop campaigns in response to feedback from the CD or clients.
- Show strong commercial awareness, ensuring work is of great quality, while not smashing the client's budget to pieces.
- Be comfortable writing hard-working, functional copy.
- A fearless thinker.
- (Mid) 3-5+ years of agency experience.
- (Sr) 4-7 years of agency experience.
- A good portfolio with the potential to become a creative titan. With 2-3 examples of great work
- A rockstar writer with genuine passion and enthusiasm for English language and impeccable grammar.
- Experience with proof-reading and editing.
- Maintain high standards for executions and attention to tone and detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills; a team player, persuasive negotiator, positive and innovative thinker.
- Recent award wins at regional or global award shows.
- Have examples of change-making work for F&B or Real Estate clients.
- Great holidays: 23 days annual holiday, plus birthday day off.
- Great flexibility: Work from office from Monday to Thursday & work from home on Friday. 10 days of working from anywhere in the world.
- Great benefits: private healthcare plan.
- Great professional development: a mentoring programme at global level and generous training budgets to support your career pathway, and
- Great fun: a blended working culture and celebration days to socialise, bond and learn together.
Conceptual Copywriter - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - M&C Saatchi
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About the Role
We push our creative teams to make the best work of their career.
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What We Offer
For the right team member, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes;
About M&C Saatchi Group
M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data, technology and culture, to help clients navigate, create and lead meaningful change. The Group operates across five core divisions: Connected Creativity; Passion Marketing; Global & Social Issues; Brand, Experience & Innovation; and Performance Media. Headquartered in London, operations span 23 countries with major hubs in the UK, Europe, US, Middle East & Africa, Asia and Australia. M&C Saatchi Group's two principles, Diversity of Thought and Brutal Simplicity of Thought, guide how they build teams and solve problems.
M&C Saatchi Group was founded in and is now the biggest Independent creative agency group in the World. Founded on one core principle, Brutal Simplicity.
About Us
We were born out of the need for strategic and brutally effective creativity in the region. With every successful campaign, we have grown, and cherry-picked the best professionals to work with us from all over the region and the world. In , we opened our Abu Dhabi office and expanded the team with our Dubai office in . From these offices we manage a number of local and global brands in Europe, GCC and of course the UAE. Brutal Simplicity of Thought is the creative philosophy of M&C Saatchi. It defines the way we work and the work we produce. We believe: "It's easier to complicate than simplify. Simple ideas enter the brain quicker and stay there longer. Brutal Simplicity of Thought is therefore a painful necessity."
M&C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.
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