Creative Excellence Manager - Maternity Cover in London

Bringing together our creative community and managing crucial relationships across the creative community at Omnicom Advertising, our creative excellence team promotes collaboration to raise the bar on our creative product. The team ensures all creative excellence initiatives are running smoothly and efficiently and that the best work is developed and championed.

Responsibilities include:

• Being a key point of contact for our OA networks for award shows, feeding into award show strategy & relationships, tracking talent for jury nominations and mapping significant campaign launches.
• Tracking of OA’s networks creative council processes.
• Reporting and tracking results along with supporting the running of internal training sessions.

Awards, Submission and Support:

• Be a key point of contact and centre of knowledge across OA for key award shows, including keeping up to date on changes and developments at key award shows and maintaining strong relationships with key awards shows & festivals.
• Have a thorough understanding of categories and knowledge of award-winning work.
• Providing submission support for our Networks, including tracking entries through the submission phases, fielding queries and maintaining awards database.
• Deliver network-wide awards training.

Jury:

• Lead jury nominations at the OA level – including running briefings, team liaison & support during judging.
• Identify and suggest talent for juries.

Communication:

• Keep track of key projects from across OA.
• Be the key liaison with the comms team.
• Communicate results from award shows.
• Maintain internal distribution lists.

A bit about you:

• Relationship-builder, striving for team and individual success.
• Excellent & proactive communicator.
• Ability to manage and negotiate complex relationships.
• Quick problem-solver, ability to foresee and head off issues independently.
• Strong collaborative spirit, diligent and consultative team-player.
• Solid presenter/public speaker, able to simplify complex information.
• Confidence in working with senior creative leaders and ability to manage upwards effectively.
• Responsible and proactive, delivers to deadlines and adept at expectation management.
• Wrangler of people, able to work with people of different disciplines and levels.
• Diplomatic and able to give and receive critical feedback.
• Highly organised, ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects.
• Comfortable dealing with a large amount of information.
• Able to create, manage new processes and systems.
• Exceptional attention to detail, able to quality control others’ work.

Background:

• 5+ years experience in creativity & project management.
• 2+ years experience involving creative awards.
• Ad hoc travel.
• Fluent Portuguese and/or Spanish speaker is a bonus.
• Good written & verbal English.
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, Keynote skills.

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance. Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.