Saatchi & Saatchi has grown from a start-up advertising agency in London in 1970 to a global creative communications company headquartered in New York with 114 offices in 67 countries and over 6000 employees. 

Saatchi & Saatchi is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world’s third largest communications group. We are a full-service, integrated communications network and we work with 6 of the top 10 and over half of the top 50 global advertisers. 

We’re in the business of getting people to fall in love with our client's products and services. We have an unshakeable spirit and unbeatable attitude from day one at Saatchi & Saatchi that Nothing is Impossible.

A Creative Director is the second most senior creative staff at Saatchi & Saatchi Vietnam. He/she is responsible for leading a strategic creative team to crack big challenges that support our human-centered approach. He/she leads assigned creative teams who work across the full spectrum - from framing and creative insight gathering to final execution for market launch across media.

He/she is also responsible for leading and managing the creative support services that include traffic, studio and production led independently by key individuals with adequate resources allocated to each function.

A copywriter-based creative director also serves as the most senior copywriter in the creative department.

Responsible for

• Inspiring, managing, and operating creative teams and their support services to develop an effective and profitable creative product that delivers on the relevant client and market needs.
• Finding ways to develop an atmosphere within a creative team such that it fosters successful work for the agency’s clients while providing a rewarding climate for team members.
• Cultivating and inspiring a team of creative staff who possess the aspiration, intellect, and creative talent capable of developing memorable experiences for clients’ brands.
• Building strong and lasting client/agency relationships.
• Collaborating with the planning and account function to consult and advise senior clients to help frame up their problems and encourage broader and bigger thinking.
• Working alongside the planning function, if called for, to help uncover deep behavior and emotional needs surrounding a creative challenge to help shape the translation of research into macro insights that ignite creative concept development and idea generation.
• Guiding teams in developing concepts and experience plans in a manner that is relevant to the brief, brand, and market needs while communicating the magic through a story.
• Guiding copywriters in developing strong copy ideas and crafting copywriting to provide the best quality possible copy for the campaign.
• Guiding art directors in developing strong visual ideas that deliver.
• Leading agency presentations when required and possible, both in new business pitches and current client creative run-throughs.
• Ensuring the creative teams deliver on creative output that works hard in achieving client objectives, while resulting in quality and profit for the agency.
• Collaborating and leading multidisciplinary teams including art directors, visual designers, UX designers, writers, producers, videographers, technologists, and studio/production (print, video, online).
• Identifying areas of improvement within the creative department and planning, designing, and leading creative workshops to work on those improvements.

• Worked as copywriter and visual designer/ director for 10 years.
• Interest in capturing and telling exceptional stories of people.
• A personal purpose of making human-centered work.