Lead Creative - 12 months FTC Role Overview We're looking for a Creative Lead to join our Flutter Creative team for 12 month parental cover. Within the role, you'll get the chance to collaborate internally and with external suppliers, being part of a team that works on the creation of boundary-pushing advertising campaigns across events like The World Cup, Cheltenham, and Premier League, to name a few. Introducing Flutter Creative The Flutter Creative department provides marketing communications to the Sportsbook, Gaming, Retail and Brand Campaign marketing teams for Sky Bet, Sky Gaming, Paddy Power (Online & Retail), Betfair UKI and Flutter brands. The team has 5 creative specialist areas of 1 Creative Services; 2 Art Copy & Creative; 3 Digital Creative; 4 Graphics Creative; and 5 Film & Motion Creative based across the Dublin, Hammersmith and Leeds offices. Together, these teams are responsible for creating and publishing online, press, social, retail and broadcast (TV & Radio) advertising assets across multiple UK&I marketing placements and product verticals. It is a creative and fast-paced environment which plays an integral part in the division's ongoing performance. About the Creative (Art & Copy) team The Creative team are responsible for advertising ideas, rationales and the creation of lead or master assets for large and medium marketing projects for all our UK & Ireland brands. The team works very closely with the internal campaign, services, brand, marketing and commercial teams; and external lead partner advertising agencies. They help deliver the best-in-class and sector defining campaigns. The roles available within the team are traditionally known as Art Directors, finished Artworkers and Copywriters in advertising agency terminology. What will you do As a Creative Lead, you’ll be a primary Creative contact in one of the two office locations in Leeds or Dublin. You will be part of a team that delivers campaigns for our whole portfoli o of brands; Sky Bet, Sky Gaming, Paddy Power and Betfair. You’ll be a on the ground person driving the creative outputs forward, and continuously handling multiple partners. Working as part of the overall all Flutter Creative, Creative team. In this position, you will work as an individual contributor and work across a few projects at once. You will have responsibility for your own individual development plan with guidance from your manager. You will specialise in one of three possible creative team areas, Art direction, Design or Copywriting. You are one of the lead creative points of contact for a number of marketing campaign functions among marketing and commercial partners in one location - up to and including Head of Dept level. Be consulted on large/medium/small advertising plans, working with two divisional brand teams to help create campaign creative. Responsible for the creative ideation of large/Medium creative marketing campaigns for at least two brands; Paddy Power, Betfair, Sky Bet and Sky Gaming. Ensuring your assigned briefs are delivered on time, and to the agreed creative scope. Reporting into the Head of Art & Copy Creative. You will be an influential individual across the internal creative teams, while showcasing colleagues your creative art/copy ideas and approaches. Help produce creative that’s engaging and innovative. You will explore new creative platforms and work closely with the external creative freelancers, agencies and production houses as required by the brand teams to support and fulfil all creative assets across TV, Radio, master imagery and on-brand advertising/marketing copy. The role will be responsible for creating large and medium creative marketing campaigns, taking a process driven approach to each brief, and help ensure its successful delivery. When required you may provide some direction to other team members which answers the uniqueness of each creative brief. As part of the Flutter Creative you will be responsible for spearheading creative innovation within the team and advertising research inside/outside the industry sector. You will also maintain a good relationship with your aligned brand teams. Making sure your creative is presented at key stages, while receiving and implementing agreed feedback. You are competent on current gambling advertising regulations and will flag your ideas that could be possible breaches. You will work closely with Flutter Creative team managers and help balance client expectations and delivery deadlines. With the added responsibility to help train the brand marketing executives/managers on the internal creative process. How will you do it This is an active office social role, where you collaborate with internal marketing, brand, creative teams and external agencies/production houses. You’ll get to exercise your talent in big idea thinking and years of experience in collaborating with internal/external teams. You will help answer creative briefs on a regular sustained basis. The most important thing, is that you can work under pressure, and have a assured approach to creation of marketing campaigns. You have all of the below; You have previously worked in an Senior creative role, with years of experience and knowledge of the creative advertising process within a studio environment and it’s full range of subject areas anguidests. You know how to tackle large/medium sized creative briefs and can motivate yourself work at pace, and meet tight deadlines. Your expertise in creative ideation and its execution is what your reputation is built on in this role. You are approachable to most levels of the business and resolve issues professionally and at pace. You can apply improvement activities that will positively impact on the creative process between partners, and internal/external creative teams. Brilliant written and verbal communication, a confident presenter. You have a mature and motivated attitude. You are open minded and possess an ability to work well with people at all levels of the business, along with external agencies and individuals. The will require travelling between office locations/partners, and on occasion, you may be called out of regular office hours to deal with creative opportunities e.g. reactive press ideation. You will also be required to attend TV/Photoshoots etc on location when necessary. Education / Experience / Software You have completed a degree or certificate program in one or more of the following teams: Visual Communication, Advertising or significant industry or agency experience (6 years). A CV that demonstrates your experience and portfolio that showcases your talent. Excellent knowledge of Mac OS and the following software (creative area depend): Microsoft PowerPoint or Keynote Microsoft Word Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / Cinema 4D Video editing software (not essential) What’s on offer £/€1,000 learning fund Twice-yearly bonus (with part of it guaranteed) Unlimited Holiday Pension contribution scheme Private healthcare Hybrid Working - some weekly office attendance required for this position Access to thousands of Udemy courses Invest via the Company Sharesave Scheme About Flutter UK & Ireland We are part of the Global FTSE 100 Flutter Entertainment. Our division operates four of the most popular and trusted brands in the market: Sky Betting and Gaming, Tombola, Betfair and Paddy Power. Together the Flutter UKI brands offer market leading entertainment to millions of customers every single week Over the last couple of decades, they have all ridden the wave of digital betting with industry firsts like ‘cash-out’, ‘Request a Bet’, betting exchanges and free to play games like Soccer Saturday Super 6. Working Here Do you want to work somewhere extraordinary? From the people you spend your days with, to the ground-breaking projects, no two days will be the same. Our 7,000 colleagues come together to form an expert, supportive community across technology, product, commercial, data, infrastructure, marketing, and a myriad of subject areas. And the Values that guide us, here they are: Customer First, Always | Change The Game | Win Together | Free To Be Me We’re proud of our 4 Values, they reflect what matters most to our people and will guide the decisions we make, represent what we believe in and support how we do things at Flutter UK & Ireland. Find out more about how we co-created our Values with over 10,000 insights from our people We’re working to be an inclusive employer, and we encourage people from all backgrounds, ways of thinking and working to apply. Everyone brings different perspectives and experiences; you don't have to meet all the requirements listed to apply for this role. If you need any adjustments to make this role work for you let us know, and we’ll see how we can accommodate them.