A Creative Planner’s job will be to instigate the direction of the entire creative campaign activity through a process of research and intelligence gathering. Everything they do will be to meet the client’s business objectives and require a degree of creative and analytical thinking and approach.
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Creative Planners drive campaign direction through research and strategy, aligning creative solutions with client business objectives.
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We’ll recruit the relevant experience in Creative Planners, ensuring that we search for proactive candidates who can problem solve and push back to open briefs and help create outstanding creative solutions.
Working in an agency role, the client’s contract with them will be to research and identify opportunities that exist for the brand and exactly how they should be positioned. They will evaluate the brand from both an internal and external point of view and by combining these determine what the creative strategy should be.
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Their passion for the role and the desire to understand where the brand fits in the marketplace drives them to collect the required data to produce competitive creative outcomes. This will come from workshops, questionnaires, feedback and other data and opinion driven activities. A well organised and strategic mind forms great creative planners who they disseminate their information into the creative agency account teams. Having experience in a brand role from a junior level, possibly an Account Executive that was research heavy, can lead into a career as a successful Creative Planner.
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