Job description
We’re looking for a culturally connected creative to join our award-winning agency. Someone who has 3+ years’ experience and a book full of unexpected and original ideas that help brands create cultural signals and engage with audiences in new ways.
Working alongside the strategy, creative and production teams you’ll be responsible for concepting, selling in and crafting ideas that that lean into brand and audience truths. You’ll able to spot creative opportunities that tap into popular culture and make people want to tune in across a variety of clients projects, pitches and partnership activations.
You’re collaborative by nature, willing to learn and have a drive to push your work and help brands tell compelling stories whether that’s expressed creatively through film, audio, words, coding or even music production.
Our client base and briefs are varied so you could be working on a brand partnership brief with the likes of the Guardian or Ladbible, pitching an AFP to Channel 4, or using the latest innovation in gaming to put our brands at the centre of emerging culture.
Whatever the brief, we’re looking for innovative, game-changing ideas that are best in class and that impact popular culture.
You might have previous work experience in a creative agency, an in-house creative department or have worked for a media owner who is at the vanguard of culture.
The Package
• 3+ years’ experience.
• Passion and knowledge of an area of culture (gaming or fashion or entertainment)
• Open to collaborating both internally and externally.
• Experience working with creatives, designers and producers to get to the most compelling output.
• Confident presenting to clients, explaining your creative idea simply and coherently and taking feedback.
• An understanding of how commercial objectives are translated into agency strategy.
• Excellent time and task management and ability to work on multiple projects.
• Experienced in PowerPoint and Adobe Suite.
The Agency
DRUM OMG
DRUM are Omnicom Media Group’s award winning content 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 around the world DRUM operate at the intersection of advertising, media and entertainment blending together powerful audience and data insights from the media world with the craft and creative rigour of advertising on its best day to produce content that creates cultural impact for brands.
Our network of 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. We believe that this pays back to the agency and our clients enabling us to create end-to-end creative solutions that go beyond the ’30 spot.
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 and multiple Cannes Lions - including x2 awards in Entertainment & Entertainment For Music in 2021 – for creativity and effectiveness.
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. 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