Midweight Art Director

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We have an amazing opportunity for a conceptual Art Director looking for a new challenge to team up with one of our current copywriters. You'll be working across a range of clients to produce head-turning concepts that win awards! You'll be big on big ideas, with the portfolio to prove it.

You will have the confidence and tenacity needed to see your ideas through to completion - displaying brilliant craft and execution skills on the way. You'll approach each task, with the same energy, albeit the day to day or the big pitches.

At TMW Unlimited we offer Hybrid working, which for us is a blend of working remotely and in the London office. It's all about choosing the best place to be for you, your team, your manager and the business on any given working day...

This role is offered as a Fixed Term Contract

The Day to Day...

• Work with colleagues from all departments, collaborating with copywriters, designers, CDs, motion designers and planners to make your vision a reality.
• Collaborate with external suppliers such as photographers, directors and illustrators, to make every piece of work the best it can be.

• Create a range of best-in-class concepts to present to creative directors
• Show strong art directional craft skills, tackling all projects large and small, with gusto
• Present confidently to colleagues and clients
• Ensure client work is always on brand, on time and in budget
• Keep up to speed with industry innovations and trends
• Proactively contribute to the department, or otherwise assist where needed
• Challenge briefs and feedback where appropriate in a constructive way
• Add value to every project

Requirements

Who will you be?

• You'll be an experienced midweight Art Director, with big ideas and the ability to develop them across the integrated mix to get the best from each channel.
• You have big ideas that wow clients and the potential to win awards and pitches
• Understand the different needs and possibilities of different channels to bring your ideas to life
• You'll know how to critically assess a brief to spot potential pitfalls and opportunities.
• Adept at presenting, whether to internal stakeholders or to clients, defending the work with passion and pragmatism
• Excellent art direction craft skills with the ability to articulate your vision (via scamps or CS)
• You'll have enviable cross-channel conceptual ability
• Sound knowledge of Creative Suite
• You put as much effort into the little jobs as you do the big ones
• A people person, you'll collaborate well with everyone, and be naturally proactive

Benefits

What we give...

We believe in the power of a strong culture that puts people and at the heart of everything we do. Our guiding principle is simple: Be the best you can be and the rest will follow.

You'll have the chance to learn from passionate, talented colleagues and mentors. Exciting and varied client work with as much opportunity as you can handle. And a hugely sociable team to get to know.

Great benefits package, including:

• 25 days holiday (increasing year on year to max 30days)
• Christmas Closure, Birthday Day and Volunteer Day
• Flexible Bank holidays
• Flexible Hybrid working
• Pension, Life Assurance, Eye Tests, Flu Jabs
• Purchase Holiday, Taste Card
• Cycle to work

We have a calendar of social and charity events throughout the year, there's always something going on.

Join us and join in. We make noise. We laugh. We share. We welcome new ideas and new people - including you.

Who are TMW Unlimited?

The TMW story is born out of the many successes we've created for our clients over the past 30 years, and now encompasses offices in London, Bristol and Reading, with clients all over the world.

We create ideas that move people.

We believe that ideas should work everywhere and that brilliant results are what really matter. We combine deep digital and advertising expertise, a strong heritage in CRM and award-winning creativity to make it all happen.

TMW is proudly part of UNLIMITED, a fully integrated agency group with human understanding at its heart. Through our Human Understanding Lab, we uncover behaviour-led insights that power performance and create a genuine business advantage for our clients.

UNLIMITED is part of the Accenture Song family, the world's largest tech-powered creative group.

What we value...

Together, we put people first and believe our values make us who we are.

Give a Damn: We care about each other, our clients and our work. And this shines through everything we do.

Be Brave: We believe in challenging each other, in standing up, in speaking out. We believe in trying new and difficult things in order to make ourselves and our work better.

Stay Curious: We actively seek out the new and the unusual, finding inspiration everywhere in the world around us.

Take Pride: We are open, accepting and inclusive, and we support each other on our journey to reach our true potential. We are actively working to ensure that we as an agency more fully reflect the society around us.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community

As an equal opportunities workplace, we have a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, socio-economic status, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, neuro divergence, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. Whether you're just getting your foot in the door, or you are an experienced employee whose life circumstances are shifting, we are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we want to live in and are therefore flexible to accommodate each individual's needs as best as we can.

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