Splendid Communications, the renowned communications agency, is looking for a talented Mid-Weight, Earned-First Creative to join its team of passionate experts.

The successful individual will have the opportunity to make a huge impact working on high-profile food, drink, retail, lifestyle and consumer tech clients, and covering the full range of creative briefs from always-on activity to major campaigns.

The role...

Is your mind bursting with concepts and ideas? Do you thrive on the opportunity to present your creative work? Are you always looking for, and inspired by, innovation and insight in the world of consumer communications? Are you ready for the next step in your career?

If yes, this role could be for you.

We are looking for someone who answers an emphatic yes to the above questions to join our ambitious and growing creative team.

What you’ll be doing ….

Your role will be collaborating with the Creative Director to support the Creative, Content and Client Partnership Teams in the following areas:

• Living and breathing earned-first creativity, from always on press office and monthly social content calendars, to major, integrated campaigns, from agile, reactive stories that hi-jack the news agenda to disruptive, fame-driving stunts
• Identifying smart consumer and cultural insights to devise original earned creative concepts that impress clients to win pitches and plaudits
• Developing compelling brand narratives and integrated platforms that work across all and any channel
• Responding positively to existing client briefs and managing feedback to deliver exciting responses on a wide variety briefs
• Producing pitch-winning decks that wow clients with our ideas
• Pitching and presenting ideas in a compelling and exciting, confident way
• Working closely with our creative strategy team
• Briefing and working with our network of external Creative Collaborators
• Working with our studio to develop assets, branding and content creative process and idea generation across the wider agency
• Writing award entries
• Upholding creative excellence through industry benchmarking

What we need from you….

Have you had a hand in devising award-winning campaign ideas? Do you know your way around a consumer insight? Are you passionate about popular culture? We need you to be as confident leading brainstorms with the wider agency teams, as you are at generating ideas alone or in pairs. We need you find novel creative solutions to any client brief and be confident at working with creative strategists to deliver compelling and strategic creative executions.

You will be enthusiastic about consumer brands and all forms of popular culture, helping us deliver to our clients’ high standards.

Your portfolio will have evidence of these skills and you will be equally confident and assured in presenting your work verbally, in writing or visually to a range of audiences, informal and formal.

Skills and experience required:

• A track record of showing your creativity and its impact on client success
• Ideally around 4 years’ experience, some of this in an agency environment
• Experience of devising notable earned PR and social ideas
• Confidence and enthusiasm for story-telling and presentations to both internal team members and external clients
• Experience of developing integrated communications platforms and campaigns is advantageous

• Experience within a creative role is advantageous but not mandatory

The job would suit...

• Someone with an inventive mind, brimming with ideas and bags of enthusiasm

• A junior creative who is looking to progress, learn and take the next step up
• A fast and lateral thinking creative who thrives on having multiple briefs to address in any given week

• Someone with a deep understanding of the news and cultural agenda who can facilitate true fast-paced reactive creativity
• Someone who is looking to be part of an ambitious, fast-moving and growing agency as it enters a new phase of growth. An agency that has big clients but is small enough for you to have impact and be involved in all stages of the process, with direct contact with all members of the wider team

• An analytical mind keen to work with consumer insight to produce work that grabs attention and connects with people

• An exacting eye on all finished work and a commitment to creative perfection

Benefits:

• Vacay or staycay with 25 days of paid holiday a year, plus eight bank holidays. This rises by 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 30 days 😊

• Celebrate your Birthday with an additional day off 🎂

• Unwind during a Christmas Close Down – we close our office between Christmas and New Year, so we give you 3 days extra days off for the festive period🎄

• Balance work and home life with our Hybrid working policy – working up to 3 days from home and 2 days a week in the office (across Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) 💻

• Embrace your weekend with an early 4.30 pm finish on Friday 🙌

• Take a break during headspace hour - 1 hour guaranteed meeting free per day

• Take proper time out with a Sabbatical - after 3 years’ service

• Work from anywhere for a calendar month- after 2 years’ service

• Try not to work late – we don’t encourage it - but if you find yourself in the office after 9 pm, we will pay for a taxi to get you home safely and provide food

• Participate in a discretionary annual bonus scheme as well as bonuses available for new business wins and recruitment referrals

• Enjoy enhanced parental pay (varies on service levels)

• Look after your health with access to WeCare, a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more

• Get day-to-day access to support from our in-house Head of Wellbeing

• Develop your personal balance with a £100 yearly fund

• Mingle with the team at our monthly all-agency socials, Summer and Christmas parties

• Stay connected with a company use iPhone

• Build your future with our pension scheme

• Get fit during your commutes with our Ride to Work scheme

• Prefer to take public transport? We can give you a travel loan, interest free!

• Lunch provided on a Thursday in the office

• And last but definitely not least according to the team: yummy snacks and drinks for those that get peckish during the day

At Splendid we care deeply and are passionate about inclusion at every level of our business. We believe that team diversity enriches our collaborative culture and our work for clients. We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience match our job description. We are passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let our recruitment team know.