Lambert is hiring: Creative Director in Grand Rapids

Company Overview

Lambert by LLYC is an integrated marketing, strategic communications and investor relations firm providing clients with measurable solutions that drive consideration, change opinion and build awareness. Headquartered in the Midwest, Lambert has offices in Detroit, New York, Phoenix, Houston, St. Louis, and Grand Rapids, Mich. Our client roster includes global leaders in economic development, mobility/automotive, education, food and beverage, healthcare, life science and manufacturing. Lambert employees are tenacious, clever, make big plays, work honorably, and are committed to and focused on team success.

Job Summary:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative leader to fill a Creative Director position within the agency. We seek an individual with experience in setting the creative vision for clients and guiding creative teams to bring out the best work within. The ideal candidate has a core strategy discipline, but has experience across the full spectrum of creative output, including design, copywriting, production, etc. We seek someone with a desire to manage and develop people and client relationships and their campaigns, to comfortably act in a client-facing role and as top collaborator among a team of graphic artists, web developers, video producers, copywriters, and brand strategists across the firm and within our family of companies.

This role will routinely collaborate across our Michigan footprint specifically, including Detroit and Grand Rapids.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties:

• Act as a chief creative collaborator to develop extraordinary ideas and campaigns that drive positive business outcomes for our clients
• Work with Account Teams to set vision, strategy and direction for clients
• Partner to develop and deliver on effective creative briefs while setting the creative vision for projects and accounts
• Ensure that all creative work is strategically sound, well-written, beautifully designed, presented well, solves project problems, and is on-budget
• Refine and enhance creative process, tools, and best practices
• Manage project teams to put people in positions to optimally support optimal client/team outcomes
• Participate as an individual contributor on projects, if needed (within your creative discipline)
• Lead client creative strategy and new business workshops
• Lead client presentations
• Lead internal reviews, meetings, and brainstorms
• Enthusiastically represent the agency in new business and first-impression meetings
• Act as capable advocate for our creative ideas as an expert in our clients' work
• Lead creative teammates, giving them direction and holding them accountable to create at their best capability
• Remain current with branding and marketing trends and strategies

The ideal candidate...

• Experience in building brand campaigns that extend across all marketing channels, economic development experience a plus
• Skilled communicator and presenter; extraordinary in front of clients
• Enthusiastic, thoughtful, confident, and energetic
• Excellent conceptual creative chops
• Believer in creative that solves real business problems and consumer needs
• Forward-thinking in creative work, pushing creative teams to explore the new and the next "big idea"
• Strategic, organized thinker capable of operating within a commitment-based culture to deliver work on time and on budget
• Ability to think holistically about your work and collaborate with other team members to make their work - and your own - even better
• Commitment to continuous improvement and learning new things
• Demonstrates ability to give and receive effective feedback
• Adapt and remain solutions-focused throughout inevitable periods of change

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 5+ years (or equivalent experience) as a director-level creative in branding, marketing, and/or advertising
• A bachelor's degree in journalism, advertising, fine arts, communications or similar
• B2B, B2C and D2C experience in one or more industries spanning Economic Development, Automotive, Grocery/CPG, Healthtech, Furniture, Education, Travel & Leisure
• Possess a portfolio of creative work and campaigns that have driven successful business outcomes
• The ideal candidate has agency experience

Benefits and Perks

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401(k) match potential and flex accounts
• Flexible work schedules and Summer Hours
• Profit sharing and bonus opportunities
• Professional development
• Career advancement opportunities

Learn more about our company culture here!

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

Occasional travel is expected for this position.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Lambert is proud to celebrate an inclusive culture and welcomes candidate's perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we understand that by assembling a diverse and inclusive work force allows for a more open exchange of ideas, solutions, and progress.

We welcome your consideration for this role and look forward to connecting with you!