Mid-Weight Creative

About the Role

Are you the hungriest culture vulture on the horizon? Have you downloaded Rednote and are learning the mandarin for ‘fit check’? Have you moved most of your basic daily decisions to A.I.?* Then DRUM want to talk to you!

*to make it clear these are not mandatory life choices to apply for this role.

We're seeking a fearless Midweight Creative with their fingers firmly on the pulse of all things culture, with a portfolio of unexpected and bold ideas, to join our award-winning agency.

You’ll be responsible for coming up with original and innovative ideas for a variety of clients that help brands engage with audiences in new ways, and bringing creative support, inspiration and innovation to the wider team.

Whatever the brief, we’re looking for someone who can help us create where others hesitate, and shape the future of culturally progressive executions.

JOB DESCRIPTION

You might already be in a Midweight Creative role or looking to make your next move up, but whatever level you’re at you’ll be someone who wants to work in a team and have maverick thinking of your own. We want you to drive the creative innovation of DRUM forward and help brands make impact in culture (maybe in ways they didn’t even know existed).

You’ll be responsible for coming up with original and innovative ideas for a variety of DRUM and OMG clients that help brands engage with audiences in new ways.

Ideally you have some experience of working on partnerships, or multi-stakeholder briefs, and campaigns that deliver stand out and shareable work that makes people want to tune in.

Our client base and briefs are incredibly varied so you could be working on a brand partnership brief with Hypebeast, pitching an AFP to Channel 4, using the latest innovation in gaming to put our brands at the centre of emerging culture or creating an experiential activation that gets shared far and wide. However, we also hope you’ll bring us something brand new too.

No week is ever the same, so you’ll need to be on top of culture, both mainstream & avant-garde and use this knowledge to push the creative output of Drum into new arenas. Whether that’s spotting opportunities to innovate through new technologies and platforms or recommending directors and cultural influencers to work with.

Whatever the brief, we’re looking for the freshest, culture-shaping ideas that set new standards and leave a lasting mark. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Pioneering Work

• Working on briefs with oversight from the ACD and CD with the experience to take your ideas that stay true to the core concept and strategy from brief through to client presentation and into delivery
• Able to solve problems on the fly and adapt to new situations and tasks
• An understanding of budgets and the types of executional ideas that fit within them
• A proactive thinker who will both answer the brief, and bring along a surprise or two aswell
  
  

Supporting Creative Director & ACD

• Identify emerging trends and opportunities in culture and share with the team
• Support on pitches to unlock growth for agencies and new clients for DRUM
• Be an enthusiastic driving force and multi-disciplinary magician for the creative team, acting as a team player and solo superstar
• A creative ambassador for DRUM with clients and partner agencies looking to you for knowledge & expertise on cultural and partnership activations
• Engage with key clients, building relationships and ensuring high levels of satisfaction
  
  

About You

• Experience taking on briefs and working with a mixed agency team
• Open to collaborating both internally and externally
• Confident presenting to clients, explaining your creative idea simply and coherently and taking feedback
• Decent time and task management and ability to work on multiple projects

We are aware that you may not have every single one of these boxes ticked, and that societal bias means non-male, neurodivergent, POC and LGBTQIA+ folk are less likely to apply for roles they feel ‘underqualified’ for. We at Drum would like to make it clear that if you feel you fit this role, we would like you to apply, even if you do not have 100% of these criteria.

Reporting lines: You will report into the Associate Creative Director
Term: Permanent

Location: DRUM’s offices at Bankside 2, 100 Southwark Street.
Hybrid Working: Tues and Thurs mandatory onside as full agency attendance. Welcome to be in the office any day of the week. Remote: Mon / Wednesday / Fri

About Drum

DRUM are Omnicom Media Group’s award-winning branded content, partnerships and entertainment agency that helps ambitious brands create their own cultural signals; things with real value for people that cut through the clutter.

Headquartered in London with offices in locations across Europe, Asia-Pacific, LATAM and forthcoming in the US, DRUM create content and partnerships that join the dots between media, entertainment, creativity, and culture to enable brands to create meaningful connections with their audiences.

From producing original entertainment formats for brands to social content innovation or partnerships with media owners, talent and streaming platforms, DRUM provide clients with creative, production and project management capabilities to help them create impact in the spaces that ads can’t.

Our network of 130 (35 in the UK) thinkers, creators, negotiators, and makers have talent and capabilities that go beyond traditional advertising. We hire cultural mavens who soak up the world outside of the office and bring it into their work and have diverse skills and backgrounds from the worlds of advertising, brands, TV, music, rights holders and sponsorship.

As a result, DRUM is one of the most awarded and successful content agencies in the business, having been awarded Content Agency of the Year three times in the last six years, multiple Cannes Lions - including x2 awards in Entertainment & Entertainment For Music in 2021.

An Inclusive & Equitable Culture

We know creating work with cultural impact starts with the culture and diversity of the agency and that’s why we’re committed to hiring and working with people from all different backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, neurodiversity, disability, age, socio-economic or parental circumstances.

Our aspiration is to make DRUM an agency that is truly representative. We are aware that there is a cultural bias that can lead to people from marginalised communities not applying for roles, so if you are from one of those communities we implore you to submit your application.

So, we’re making sure all areas of our business from our agency departments, the partners and suppliers we work with, and our creative output reflects this ambition. 

At Omnicom Media Group/DRUM we have an underlying belief that our agencies and specialist services should reflect the society in which we live. Be that Age, Disability, Education, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender identity, National Origin, Religion or Sexual Orientation. Simply, we believe that Inclusion and Diversity makes for a more stimulating and inspiring working environment, where people are treated with respect and can be comfortable being themselves. Embracing these different approaches and thinking helps deliver tangible and positive results for our clients’ business

DRUM job descriptions are not intended to be restrictive and are a guideline to the duties in this role.

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