Senior Content / Creative Lead

Job description / Role

Senior Content / Creative Lead
Salary: AED 30,000
Dubai, UAE

Our client is a locally founded established business, who is looking to recruit for a Senior Content / Creative Lead to join the creative division.
Main purpose for this role is to lead, build and inspire a team of world-class creatives and content marketing experts in developing globally recognized creative concepts and inspiring creative excellence across all marketing projects.

Youll also be responsible for the development of the companys creative and content marketing strategies across the MENA region.

Responsibilities:
Creating and executing a world-class content marketing strategy regionally and supporting the local Product Marketing Managers with their content marketing strategies as well as working with other internal and external clients to support them with content / creative.
Creating locally relevant content formats based on audience interests and insights that can be piloted in one country and rolled out to other markets.
Driving globally recognized creative concepts and inspiring creative excellence across all projects within the agency.
Managing and building a content marketing / creative team bringing together experts from film, design, editorial and digital.
Developing and nurturing a stellar external partner network for content creation and distribution regionally and globally.
Championing the content marketing agenda and thinking within the company and constantly pushing the envelope in how we can create more relevant content for our audience across all channels.
Ensuring all creative concepts have strong social engagement built-in.
Working closely together with the other Senior Leads in the agency to align all activities with content as the core - supported by media, social, comms etc.
Driving technical innovation and development to further enhance the content marketing impact and reach.

Requirements

Criteria:
10+ years of working in a creative agency as a creative director or a senior creative.
Excellent experience in and passion for content marketing and social media as well as content publishing / format development.
Experience in managing large creative teams with experts from various fields.
Deep understanding of modern creative storytelling bridging different media as well as virtual and physical.
Experienced in pulling together creative concepts and content across multiple disciplines.
Experience, understanding of and passion for the MENA region and culture as well as the concept of collaborative economy.

Unfortunately due to the high volume of candidate applications only the successful candidates will be contacted.

About the Company

Connect Executive Search Middle East is a full service selection and placement agency that is focused on supplying the best pool of talent to the Middle East. Offering an unrivalled level of service, our aim is to connect organisations with leading professionals through our team’s sector specific knowledge and in-depth understanding of the Middle East market.

We cover multiple sectors as following:

• Emiratisation & Government • Healthcare & Life Sciences • Legal & Business Support • OIL, Gas & Energy • Industrial and Engineering

At Connect Executive Search Middle East, finding employees the work they are best suited for, and by finding employers those candidates who are the right fit within their organization, we provide value to society as a whole. By finding the right balance between the needs of the employer and the changing wishes of employees, we will bring supply and demand closer together. It is our mission to inspire individuals and organisations to work more effectively and efficiently, and create greater choice in the domain of work, for the benefit of all concerned.