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About the role:

Arrivals + Departures is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an environment where everyone feels included, valued, and heard. Diversity and inclusion are an important part of our everyday work, and it is our belief that they enable us to reach our goal of seeing the world differently. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communications and/or people with intersectional identities. Accommodations can be made upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Arrivals + Departures (A+D) is a national and proudly independent full-service creative and media agency, employing 80+ people with offices in Toronto and Halifax. More importantly, we are a group of passionate, down-to-earth people with an entrepreneurial spirit and hustle needed for today’s ever-changing world.

In fact, our name is inspired by the changing world around us and reflects our mission to ‘See The World Differently’. This means we approach every challenge and opportunity with fresh eyes, not falling into the trap of delivering the expected. Simply put, we are for those who want to challenge the status quo with the relentless pursuit to see what no one else sees.

About the role:

*This position will be supporting our Halifax work from our Toronto offices*

Okay, you can write, we all know it, now it is time to use your powers for a greater good.

Your thinking no longer just lives in between THE CREATIVE and THE SUMMARY slides.

We need you to spell out solid strategic thinking and express a creative platform in a way everyone can understand and follow.

As a Senior Copywriter, you're a seasoned professional with a deep passion for transforming brands through innovative creative solutions. Your extensive experience in advertising, along with unrelenting curiosity, allows you to dive into clients' businesses, uncover consumer insights, and stay updated on industry trends.

You excel in crafting clear and engaging copy, delivering integrated, cross-channel initiatives with a consumer-first mindset. In this role, your responsibilities include managing daily deliverables, ensuring alignment with brand strategy, and presenting work to clients. You also are forward thinking, offering subject matter expertise to give insight on business development + pitching.

Your senior skills encompass exceptional copywriting, strong conceptual craftsmanship, and a focus on awareness, contributing to polished, award-worthy work within a dynamic creative environment where you manage creative up and down to teams involved.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of conceptualizing and executing integrated, cross-channel initiatives using copy
• Understanding and awareness for effective connections with target audiences, addressing their needs, motivations, and aspirations with a high degree of expertise
• Ability to manage deliverables in a fast-paced environment, involving extensive client interaction and proactivity managing up, down and across
• Lead your day to day as a project expert - proactively leading in ideation + creation of successful written content
• Ensure that agency-developed concepts align with the brand and strategy, while being practical and cost-effective at all levels
• Contribute to creative work for new biz pitches partnering with sr team members
• Direct collaboration from CCO, CD + Art Director partners to develop successful creative concepts
• Present work to the Creative Director, CCO Account Services team, and clients as required
• Uphold the agency's creative work to the highest standards of accuracy and quality control
• Ability to keep client work on brand, on message, on strategy, and on your own most of the time
• Leadership in idea presentation and sell through
• Skilled creative production from end-to-end
• Ability to provide regular project updates to creative directors

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in an agency environment
• Strong conceptual thinking with a dynamic presence in the boardroom
• Integrated campaign development and brand building work/portfolio
• Opinions - lots of opinions
• The ability to challenge work, killing feedback professionally and diplomatically
• Great Leadership skills along with the ability to manage up
• A healthy curiosity for/understanding of industry trends
• Provide a list of national & international accolades and awards

W e love people who are curious ask questions like to share knowledge and collaborate. If that sounds like you we’d love to talk! Please send your resume to jobs.yyz@arrivalsdepartures.com.

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