{T&A OGILVY} ART DIRECTOR (HCMC BASED) – VIETNAMESE CANDIDATE ONLY
About Ogilvy
Ogilvy, part of WPP, has been creating impact for brands through iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas since the company was founded by David Ogilvy 75 years ago. It builds on that rich legacy through Borderless Creativity – innovating at the intersections of its advertising, public relations, relationship design, consulting, and health capabilities with experts collaborating seamlessly across over 120 offices in nearly 90 countries. Ogilvy currently ranks as the #1 global agency network for creative excellence and effectiveness by WARC, signifying its ability to deliver creative solutions that drive unreasonable impact for clients and communities. Ogilvy is a WPP company (NYSE: WPP). For more information, visit Ogilvy.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Facebook.
About WPP
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
About Ogilvy
Aspiring to grow brands, drive impacts for our clients and inspire our people, T&A Ogilvy has constantly pushed our creativity and mindset to transform from a leading PR agency to the best creative innovation partner and a borderless creative playground for our talents, so everyone can #GrowWithUs
About the Role
The Art Director is responsible for the creative output, with oversight of creative processes; the ideation, presentation and execution of client branding and marketing communications campaigns; the profitability and creative quality of client projects, and the operational readiness of the creative team, all in fulfillment of our brand promise to our clients, including:
- Generate ideas and see them through to completion after understanding client requirements.
- Work in teams both internal and external to develop creative outputs and thereafter discussing the same with the client
- Work with external agencies like producers, photographers, editors
- Ensuring that our high quality of creative and production is upheld, maintaining consistently high standards for him/herself and others on the team
- Listening, asking, hearing, prioritizing and translating client situation, marketing goals and information into strategic brand/ campaign/ project concepts, voice, messages and rationales
- Collaborating and contributing to the creative process as a leader of a creative team, and as a member of the account team
- Co-leading the unified creative/account management process in order to execute on client projects
- Ensuring the professional development and readiness of the creative team
What You’ll Do
- Make decisions on a daily basis that ensure both profitability and creative quality
- Set expectations and standards (build a culture) for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development.
- Study the creative marketplace, assessing where Ogilvy’s work stands against competitors’, as well as our clients’ competitors’ creative work.
- Drive constant improvement in Ogilvy’s creative quality and capabilities.
- Valued as a routine contributor of informed, analytical and strategic contributions to new program development / business opportunities.
- Assure that timely and informative communication takes place between the creative function and account team and clients
- Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing and branding efforts for new business development
What You’ll Need
- Superior leadership and collaboration skills
- Superior problem solving and decision-making skills
- Excellence in managing and motivating staff
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills
- Understanding of advertising and marketing principles
- Understanding of marcom strategies and tactics, including technologies.
- Ability to judge creative concepts and copy, and clearly communicate creative direction to others
- Thorough understanding of clients and their business/industry
- Excellent presentation skills
- Thorough understanding of art direction
- Understanding of on and offline marcom elements production
- Communication, planning, time-management and follow-through skills
- Excellent knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
How We’ll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose - and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.
Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.