About the role
Agency: FutureBrand
Job Function: Creative
Job Subfunction: Design
Job Description:
Design Director
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aptain
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Master of your craft. A dynamic multitasker
and inspiring mentor. A great design director doesn’t just
manage — they elevate everything around them.
As a strategic powerhouse and creative force, you have the
unique ability to challenge conventions, spark innovation, and
lead by example. You are the champion of the brands you work
with, a steadfast protector of creative integrity, and an
invaluable partner to our clients. As a mentor, you empower
your team to reach new heights, guiding them to create
groundbreaking designs that redefine the category.
Your passion for consumer branding and packaging is
unwavering, and you have an intuitive sense of what resonates
with audiences. With a pulse on the present and an eye toward
the future, you are not afraid to push boundaries and share
bold, insightful perspectives that shape the industry. Always
curious, always evolving — you inspire others to think bigger
and design bolder, leaving a lasting impact on the world of
consumer branding.
Responsibilities and Tasks:
Instrumental in the creation of future brands.
Lead and push the strategic and creative direction
ensuring that we produce exceptional and insightful
creative solutions.
A natural storyteller, you excite, compel and inspire those
around you– from clients to colleagues.
Build a strong understanding of the client’s culture,
business motivations and long-term plans and get under
the skin of the client’s brief and wider category context
Responsible for ensuring you and the team produce
category breaking creative that can be expressed across
all points of connected experience.
Have a point of view and never be afraid to share it.
Understand new trends and creative. Be the go-to person
for insights, updates and news.
Work collaboratively with the wider team to steer and
inform the direction of the strategy. You are able to
communicate brand strategy into creative.
Take pride in the quality of our client presentations and
make sure the work is sold as effectively as it deserves.
Develop solid and trusted relationships with your clients.
Get to know your clients and be able to deal with them
directly. Understand and share their passion for their
brand, as well as their pressures and frustrations.
A collaborator. Building rock
solid relationships at every turn.
A valued member of the business you have strong
relationships with your peers across the breath of the
agency and work together to get the best results.
Contribute to a highly collaborative and energized
atmosphere in which positive disruption is encouraged.
Develop relationships with your peers within the
FutureBrand
Group more broadly.
Develop a great team of designers. Drive your team with
integrity, ambition and maintain an appetite of excellence
across all that your team delivers.
Be effective with your conversations and feedback, even if
some of those conversations aren’t easy. Manage difficult
situations but know when to involve more senior colleagues.
Use your experience to advise the team on how to shape
and deliver their work. A solid mentor, imparting your
knowledge and expertise, whilst helping the more junior
team members grow and flourish.
Exude a spirit of generosity and perceptiveness towards
others in the agency. Inspiring through your actions and
your openness.
Nurture the growth and health
of your clients’ business.
Be commercially conscious, understanding how you get
the best out of your project and your team to deliver
exceptional and profitable results.
Work closely with project management to accurately and
actively define and scope projects.
Make sure we deliver a quality project, to an extremely
happy client, while balancing the agency’s commercial and
reputational interests.
Along with your other triumvirate partners you lead the
creative and have a shared responsibility for Account
development, Quality of work, Commercial ‘health’, Team
‘health’ and wellbeing.
There are always pressure points in our industry, but you are
an expert in remaining calm under pressure and can support
others in achieving the same
.
Experiment with new approaches and create new opportunities within projects to develop our offer and broaden & deepen our relationships with clients Hungrily seek out growth opportunities for the brand and the agency. Understand the wider FutureBrand Group and McCann WorldGroup offering and actively promote their services to your client. When you join FutureBrand we want to make sure you feel comfortable, supported, and safe in the knowledge that we’ve got your back. We offer a range of flexible benefits to boost your lifestyle, support good health and protect your future. We also have regular perks in the office and have an active Social Committee. 


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. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
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