Junior Creative - PR

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Your Role:

• Liaise with teammatesand account teams in a confident manner and build strong working relationships at a junior level
• Proactively share interesting stories / trends etc that we might be able to ideate around for retained or speculative clients
• Supporting campaign and programme development through relevant research and contributing ideas to creative conversations
• Responding to creative briefs in a timely manner with a range of creative – edited back to the top ideas
• Building upon any feedback given by team lead
• Effective management of the team down, across and up, working closely with staff and peers
• Creating mock ups for ideas – both for pitch documents and retained responses
• Helping teams with small design requests
• Occasionally reaching out to suppliers to see if an idea is viable
• Being a central creative hub for the junior team – getting into their heads and drawing out great insights and thoughts from across the agency
• Attending all creative conversations – being prepped for them
• Writing up initial long lists of ideas
• Occasionally running creative conversations and helping to encourage teammates who are less creatively confident
• Mentor and guide junior colleagues who aren’t from a creative background
• Organising offsite inspiration trips for the agency
• Being point person for the creative weekly newsletter
• Providing support to the Creative team in pitch deck writing and retained client idea development
• As and when a placement scheme is set up, managing the time of the creative placement
  
  

Expected Skill Set:

• A foundation of creative, design & art direction experience
• Proficient skills in PhotoShop / Indesign to support with mock-ups and general design work for pitches, RTBs and live activations
• Be able to pull apart a brief
• Be able to research, digest and share interesting /relevant insights
• Ambitious, self-motivated and spirited attitude to life and work
• Keen to work in a fast-paced environment – note this is not an ad agency, things move far quicker in earned-first
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• You’ll have an ‘always on’ attitude to creative – everything and anything could be an idea. Someone who finds inspiration where others don’t
• You’ll be receptive to creative crits and will come back with another page of ideas because they’re just spilling out of you
• 360 understanding of the UK media landscape; from papers to social media
• Strong time management skills
• An ability to multi-task on a number of different creative requirements
• A passion for food, travel and retail, along with a hunger to grow and develop a career in one of the UK’s most awarded consumer earned-first agencies
• (Desired not essential)Active on social media, creator of own content
  
  

Benefits:

Working at TH

• Flexi working – we aim for 2 days at home and 3 days in-office to keep us all bouncy

• £100 a year towards your home office

• 25 days holiday (one year extra each year you work for us)

• Birthdays / Happiness days off

• Bike & travel Loan

• Health care after 2nd year of service

• Mentor Scheme

Working at Publicis / Chancery Lane

• Sexy West End offices, full of Creative Agencies and fascinating people!

• We have a gym (and awesome showers)

• We have a pub (20% off for staff / free beers and Pizza on Wednesdays)

• We have free breakfast

• We have an awesome buffet lunch (not free but super reasonably priced)

• We have global mobilisation opportunities after your 2nd year.

• 1000’s of e-learning tutorials and skills learning opportunities on Marcel

• Global Mentoring scheme

On a staff survey completed in May 2022, our staff gave us 97% rating on a fun & vibrant environment with a positive & supportive company culture, we scored 86% on getting work life balance right, and 100% said they have great feedback on their work and relationship with their line managers on their progress; 93% said their contribution was valued and they felt heard on work and social issues; 100% said they knew what was going on across all areas of the agency; 93% said they felt connected to their co-workers; 93% agreed they knew what their career KPI’s were and how to get to the next level; 100% said we had a great office with great energy, light and layout.