Creative Director

Job Title: Creative Director at Enviral

Location: Bristol, minimum 2 days per week in our Bristol-based office

Salary: Competitive +benefits, based on experience

Working Week: Full-time, Monday to Friday

About Enviral: We’re a Bristol-based communications agency here to Stop Global Yawning! Working with brands who want to drive both their mission and margin, we collaborate within B2B, B2C, and the charity space to provide credible, consistent and creative storytelling through strategy and creativity.

This is an exciting hire for our new Creative Director to join us on our journey. If you thrive on creating change through comms, leading a passionate studio team and supporting us to drive our agency forwards, we would love to meet you.

The role:

As Creative Director you’ll be an ideas powerhouse and inspirational agency leader, using your creative skills to push our team and our clients to bring impactful communications into the world. Ideally with an Art Director/Design Director background, you’ll oversee the work from our creative department, being responsible for driving creative excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, impactful campaigns that align with Enviral’s mission and values.

Creative Leadership:

• Ensure work for Enviral and our clients is ‘Credible’ ‘Consistent 'and ‘Creative’ in line with our core beliefs and be accountable for all creative work from the agency.
• Build impactful ideas that continuously push the boundaries of our mission to ‘stop global yawning.'
• Be integral to our Drive Team, along with other senior team members, supporting the agency strategy to Make Money, Do Good, Be Happy.
• Encourage an environment of creativity and kindness, inspiring the team and our clients to go that extra mile together.
• Have a commercial mindset to balance work with pushing our sustainable business plan forward.
• Work collaboratively with partners as well as nurturing strong relationships with our freelancers.
• Attend networking and industry events to represent and showcase Enviral and our creativity.
• Has experience in creating and aligning creative platforms to 360 campaigns, sharing portfolio experience of film, design, radio, TV, OOH, print, etc.

Creative ideation and creative process:

• Work in collaboration with the Creative and Strategy team to oversee the development and execution of creative concepts for all projects that align with agreed strategic and executional briefs (and where appropriate) exceed client goals.
• Pitch these ideas to a range of clients, taking them on a journey that excites them, builds trust and strong partnerships.
• Work in briefs and pitches on the tools across multiple clients, sectors and projects with the same passion.

Operations:

• Ensure the creative department follows the Enviral process to balance creative efficiency and quality – including briefing, approvals, timesheets and approvals.
• Collaborate with the project management team and General Manager on resourcing to ensure the right creative talent is assigned to projects for our best work, being appreciative of the commercial balance.
• Collaborate with the project managers and General Manager when freelance resources are required to ensure the right skills are supporting the creative team's output during periods of overcapacity.
• Work with the General Manager and founder in the recruitment process ensuring we have the right balance of talent within the creative department.
• In collaboration with the General Manager and Project Delivery leads, establish the creative process from costing, to brief to delivery.

People Management:

• Provide clear direction and constructive feedback to the creative team to help better the work.
• Be a mentor to the creative team; mentors play an active role in their career development.

Key skills:

• Proven experience as a Creative Director in a communications agency.
• Expert understanding of building communications for a variety of channels and formats.
• Expertise in building campaigns from a strategic insight.
• An acute eye for detail, ensuring all communications have a level of
• consistency and are produced to the highest standard.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and Google Drive.
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills, able to effectively
• communicate conceptual ideas and respond to client feedback.
• Proactive and spot opportunities to push creative ideas.
• Work within tight deadlines.
• Great at building relationships, with colleagues, partners and clients.

You will thrive here if you:

• Excel at communicating conceptual ideas that inspire clients to turn these into reality.
• Have senior agency experience in art direction or design direction.
• Have an always-on mentality in regards to communications that move the needle.
• Are on the creative pulse and not afraid to do things differently.
• Have a clear passion to change the world, with sustainability comms experience, a distinct advantage.
• Are a self-starter and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Bring a ‘can-do’ attitude and a willingness to roll up your sleeves to get the job done well.

Our values:

Big on purpose: We show up to make a difference.

Anything is possible: Our collective curiosity has no limits.

We grow together: Learning through kindness and collaboration.

We delight in the detail: Handling with care, sweating the small stuff.

Benefits:

Enviral offers several benefits on top of a competitive salary package. These include:

• Paid activism and volunteering days.
• Healthcare plan.
• 24 days’ holiday.
• Adventure Half-Day Fridays and ‘You do you’ day.
• Birthdays and Christmas Eve off.
• Free therapy sessions.
• Creative Mentorship from industry-leading creatives.
• Flexible working and working abroad policies.
• Plus all the standard benefits you’d expect, like hybrid working, a pension, a cycle-to-work scheme, and a yearly training and development fund.

We’re also based in a creative co-working hub with bicycle lock-up, showers, great coffee, and a space full of Bristol’s best creative talent!

How to apply:

Please email your application with the following in the subject line: Name / Creative Director Application.

Attach your CV and portfolio: In your cover email, please include a couple of

paragraphs on:

• Why you, why Enviral, why now?
• And a paragraph on one campaign you’ve seen recently that stood out and why.