Job description
If you live and breathe ideas – if good work genuinely bothers you and "that'll do" just isn't an option – we want to hear from you.
You'll have real agency experience, a strong portfolio across digital and broadcast, and the kind of craft obsession that makes good work genuinely great. Our campaigns aren't just TV. They live across every touchpoint – and the best candidates will know how a big idea behaves differently on a billboard versus a six-second pre-roll versus an Instagram story, and make each one feel like it was born there. Experience in sport, sports betting or gaming would put you right in the mix.
What you'll be doing:
As part of our creative team you'll be shaping and delivering work for major clients across some of the most competitive, high-profile categories in advertising.
• Lead concept development from brief to big idea
• Push chosen territories further – stronger thinking, sharper execution
• Set the creative bar and bring others with you
• Work closely with account and planning teams to land ideas that actually do something
• Present confidently to clients and CDs alike
What we're looking for:
• A creative with genuine craft – concept and execution
• Proven 360 thinking – a big idea expressed intelligently across broadcast, OOH, and platform-native social and digital
• A master of the Adobe Suite – InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop are second nature to you
• A clear communicator who can sell an idea as well as make one
• Resilient, curious and hungry – the best creatives never stop pushing
• Someone who sees a brief and goes further than asked
• A team player who makes the people around them better
• Someone with a passion for sport and/or gaming
If you're ready to get stuck into big ideas and make work you're proud to shout about, send your CV and portfolio to [email protected] with 'Senior Art Director' in the subject line.
Applications close 20th May.
You'll have real agency experience, a strong portfolio across digital and broadcast, and the kind of craft obsession that makes good work genuinely great. Our campaigns aren't just TV. They live across every touchpoint – and the best candidates will know how a big idea behaves differently on a billboard versus a six-second pre-roll versus an Instagram story, and make each one feel like it was born there. Experience in sport, sports betting or gaming would put you right in the mix.
What you'll be doing:
As part of our creative team you'll be shaping and delivering work for major clients across some of the most competitive, high-profile categories in advertising.
• Lead concept development from brief to big idea
• Push chosen territories further – stronger thinking, sharper execution
• Set the creative bar and bring others with you
• Work closely with account and planning teams to land ideas that actually do something
• Present confidently to clients and CDs alike
What we're looking for:
• A creative with genuine craft – concept and execution
• Proven 360 thinking – a big idea expressed intelligently across broadcast, OOH, and platform-native social and digital
• A master of the Adobe Suite – InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop are second nature to you
• A clear communicator who can sell an idea as well as make one
• Resilient, curious and hungry – the best creatives never stop pushing
• Someone who sees a brief and goes further than asked
• A team player who makes the people around them better
• Someone with a passion for sport and/or gaming
If you're ready to get stuck into big ideas and make work you're proud to shout about, send your CV and portfolio to [email protected] with 'Senior Art Director' in the subject line.
Applications close 20th May.
The Package
Why join Drummond Central as a Senior Art Director?
Campaign UK just ranked us the 25th top creative agency in the UK — and we jumped 10 spots to get there. We're also holding firm at #2 in the regional rankings.
You'll make brilliant, effective work for household names like Greggs, Fentimans, Newcastle Building Society and Jack Daniel's, alongside ambitious clients who genuinely care about the work.
We're 100% employee-owned — which means this place is yours as much as anyone's.
We're longstanding, proud IPA members, accredited for both Effectiveness and CPD, with a host of training and development opportunities to back it up.
We're a Real Living Wage employer.
There's a bonus scheme worth up to 10% of your salary — and a proportion of that is tax-free thanks to our employee ownership structure.
23 days' holiday (rising with service) plus bank holidays and option to buy more, flexible working, and a 4/1 office/home model.
A company health cash plan, Perkbox perks, and salary sacrifice schemes for bikes, Metro travel, and EVs.
And yes, dogs are welcome.
Campaign UK just ranked us the 25th top creative agency in the UK — and we jumped 10 spots to get there. We're also holding firm at #2 in the regional rankings.
You'll make brilliant, effective work for household names like Greggs, Fentimans, Newcastle Building Society and Jack Daniel's, alongside ambitious clients who genuinely care about the work.
We're 100% employee-owned — which means this place is yours as much as anyone's.
We're longstanding, proud IPA members, accredited for both Effectiveness and CPD, with a host of training and development opportunities to back it up.
We're a Real Living Wage employer.
There's a bonus scheme worth up to 10% of your salary — and a proportion of that is tax-free thanks to our employee ownership structure.
23 days' holiday (rising with service) plus bank holidays and option to buy more, flexible working, and a 4/1 office/home model.
A company health cash plan, Perkbox perks, and salary sacrifice schemes for bikes, Metro travel, and EVs.
And yes, dogs are welcome.
The Agency
Drummond Central
Drummond Central is a straight-talking creative agency from the North. We build brands, helping them overcome problems and fulfil ambitions – strategically, creatively and effectively. We’ve done it for over 20 years and it never gets old.
Being fiercely independent and employee-owned means we’re free to focus on the wellbeing of our people, the happiness of our clients, and the impact of our work. No shadowy shareholders calling the shots here, just free-thinking individuals with sharp minds and big hearts.
We get on with everyone but thrive on working with like-minded people. Those with a fighting spirit, an understanding of the power of creativity, and a desire to make distinctive work that gets talked about.
We’re not for everyone, and that’s why we’re perfect for some. The driven, the determined and the ambitious.
Being fiercely independent and employee-owned means we’re free to focus on the wellbeing of our people, the happiness of our clients, and the impact of our work. No shadowy shareholders calling the shots here, just free-thinking individuals with sharp minds and big hearts.
We get on with everyone but thrive on working with like-minded people. Those with a fighting spirit, an understanding of the power of creativity, and a desire to make distinctive work that gets talked about.
We’re not for everyone, and that’s why we’re perfect for some. The driven, the determined and the ambitious.