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Senior Creative Manager
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Requisition ID
12186
Location
PL-Warszawa
Career Category
Creative & Content
Division
Discovery Networks - Intl Division
Type
Company Employee Full-Time
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Position Summary:
You may not get on TV but you could help us make it!
The Crew
Calling all creative gurus, inspirational and visionary leaders! The Warsaw Creative Services team is recruiting! If your passion is driving world class creative excellence and innovation then look no further. The Senior Creative Manager will support the growth of business for both Central Europe – within a pan CEEMEA context of our business. And will be responsible for winning awards and achieving great success!
Responsibilities:
The Action
- Develop and execute an overall creative strategy for the lifestyle and factual channels – on air and off air – in order to build long and lasting consumer relationships and engagement, and take share from our competitors. Working closely with the Creative Director CEEMEA, and Channel Directors and Creative Managers.
- Oversee the production of compelling creative campaigns and reels to support and drive commercial growth strategy working closely with the Creative Director, Creative Managers and heads of Distribution and Ad Sales as necessary
- Develop and grow a consumer facing creative team – including 2 Creative managers - that is envied by competitors and regularly wins awards
- As a the creative leader in the organization, bring best-in-class ideas and vision that inspire creativity and drive quality across the whole group
- Work closely with the Creative Director and Digital Director and local digital team to develop and execute compelling digital marketing.
Work closely with Senior Production Manger CEEMEA, London Creative Services and Creative Director to drive synchronization, joined up thinking and sharing of best practices in order to maximize efficiencies
- Build and nurture close relationships with international peers, looking to share best practice
- Work with the Warsaw media planning team to ensure air time usage, and production plans, are most efficient and effective and consistent with CEEMEA synchronization strategy
- Ensure an integrated approach with all marketing, ad sales and creative functions, including
- On air promotions
- Continuity
- Off-air artwork
- Digital
- Off air projects as briefed by the Channel team
- Consult with the research teams to ensure that activities are based on consumer insights an market realities
Requirements:
The Casting
We’re looking for a bilingual Polish-English speaker who has a way with words. And a way with people. Someone who believes that ideas are everything. But knows they’re nothing without hard work. Someone who hates the phrase “That will do”’.
Someone with a great eye. Someone who can just picture “it”. And then revel in the details. Someone who sees no difference between design and digital.
Someone who wants to make a name for themselves as part of the world’s number one pay-TV programmer.
Metrics
- Extensive experience in a creative TV broadcast environment or creative agency, including managerial experience
- 2 direct reports
- Responsible for 8 brands/feeds, across 4 countries
- Supporting a budget of $1M
- Ability to exercise judgement in prioritising projects against resource limitations and department goals
- Ability to exercise diplomacy and manage a matrixed-environment to get buy-in and support across to meet channel goals
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