Company Description
Leo Burnett is built upon the foundation that what helps people, helps business.
We are in the business of Reinvention - always adapting, shifting and evolving to identify and support the changing needs of today, using creative problem solving to unlock commercial success for our clients.
We’ve worked hard to be one of Australia’s leading communications agencies, and our ambition is to be the most innovative creative solutions company in the world, and to have fun doing it.
https://www.leoburnett.com.au/
Job Description
We're looking for an experienced Senior Copywriter to join our national award-winning creative team based in Sydney. In this role you would partner with a talented and award-winning Senior Art Director working across some of Leo’s biggest and most creatively ambitious clients while having the opportunity to make some of the finest work of your career.
You’ll be part of a growing team in an agency filled with smart, kind people who are passionate about the work and genuinely care about each other. We have industry-leading flexibility and a culture we’re famous for, plus there are endless opportunities for growth in both Leo Burnett and Publicis Groupe more broadly, with access to global opportunities and L&D programs.
This hybrid role is part-time / full-time negotiable.
Day-to-day in this role, you’ll get to:
- Partner and collaborate with a talented Senior Art Director and wider creative team to conceptualise award winning ideas and copy that deliver exceptional results for our clients.
- Ideate creative concepts that push boundaries across integrated brand platforms
- Interpret creative briefs from our creative, strategy and client services teams.
- Attend client meetings to articulate and sell ideas (both yours and your teams) that our clients will love and that demonstrate our reinventive thinking.
- Attend shoots and sound sessions to ensure the level of craft is upheld to the finest level.
- Be a mentor to other members of the team by supporting and providing constructive feedback to unlock their full creative potential.
Qualifications
The person we’re looking for has/is:
- Prior relevant experience (5+ years) in a creative advertising agency or equivalent.
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates your strong writing capabilities and ability to write to different brand tones and audiences
- An excellent conceptual thinker with proven aptitude to come up with ideas for integrated brand platforms across non-traditional, social, digital and TV channels.
- A passion for creativity and flair for writing effective and innovative copy.
- Exceptional communication experience, you enjoy partnering with your team and winning over clients with your brilliant ideas.
- Agile, flexible, self-motivated, collaborative, sense of calm - these are all traits that come naturally to you.
- You enjoy staying on top of cultural and social trends and new technologies.
- You have already tasted some awards success and have the appetite to win a lot more.
Additional Information
What you can expect from us:
Partner with the best clients in Australia: ANZ Bank, Destination NSW, Suncorp, Bundaberg Rum, Superloop, HBF, Johnnie Walker, Red Rooster and Vitasoy.
Make the best work of your career: We believe in the power of creativity to transform human behaviour. Each one of us is held accountable for contributing to ideas of the highest standard in the world. And we’re recognized for it. More recently we were the 2023 Spikes Asia Network of the Year, and won the Cannes Lion Innovation Grand Prix for our work with Suncorp in 2022.
Work with the best people: If you’ve ever met a Burnetter you’ll know we stand apart. Our agency is filled with smart, kind people who are passionate about the work and who genuinely care about each other.
Have the best experience: We have industry-leading flexibility and a culture we’re famous for. Our structure and processes are uncomplicated because we focus on output. And there are endless opportunities for growth in both Leo Burnett and Publicis Groupe more broadly with access to global opportunities and L&D programs.
Be a part of the Publicis Groupe family, one of the world’s most progressive and dynamic modern communications businesses.
Enjoy all the perks that come with our network offering:
- A comprehensive Wholeself program supporting Physical, Mindful and Financial wellbeing.
- A creative, fun and rewarding office environment where people love working with each other, supported by our Publicis Liberté flexibility approach “working your way, with us!”
- Access to our Global AI Platform, Marcel, connecting Publicis Groupe employees with opportunities for career mobility and collaboration across our global network.
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including more than 15,000 learning programs via our online learning platform Marcel Classes
- A culture of open feedback and support to reach your goals through our Career Conversations program.
- A committed Diversity, Equality and Inclusion strategy driven through our Viva! Women, Égalité, enABLE and Embrace (reconciliation action plan) programs.
- Work Your World program enabling employees the flexibility to work from anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks per year.
- Parental leave policy with up to 18 weeks paid primary carer leave and generous secondary carer benefits.
- Access to counsellors, psychologists and professionals through Sonder - an all-in-on digital wellbeing technology platform designed to support psychological, medical & safety needs.
If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our values of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, fearlessness, and integrity, rather than ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, please apply.
Diversity. Inclusion. Equity. More than just words, these are part of our DNA. At Publicis Groupe we are committed to the inclusion and recognition of all people; regardless of race, age, culture, ability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status and religious affiliation. We believe that to deliver the best solutions to our clients, our people need to reflect the diverse communities in which our clients operate in. We value diversity and the skills, knowledge and experience that difference brings to our culture and solutions.
Uniqueness is powerful; without it we wouldn’t be where we are today. So be you – we like it that way.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for people with disability or those that require additional support throughout the application process. If you need any assistance or adjustments, please contact us via recruitment@publicisgroupe.com - your personal information will be kept confidential.
