Company: Publicis Groupe

Location: Toronto, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:55:06 GMT

Job description: Company DescriptionPublicis is an omni-channel communications agency with over 600 employees across our Canadian operations. The office is the largest in our industry in Canada and boasts talent across various disciplines of marketing and advertising expertise. Publicis carries a balanced split of Canadian, U.S. and Global clients for which we are Agency of Record. Publicis supports a range of D&I actions through our Driving Change team as well as giving back to the community through a long-standing participation in the Out of the Cold Program. With a strong, active and familial culture, Pub United is the agency’s social club, hosting events as wide reaching as Curling, Trivia Nights and more.Job DescriptionWorking with the Jr. Art Director, the Jr. Copywriter supports the creative team with the creation and execution of insightful campaigns for our clients. As a developing professional, he/she/they reviews and understands the creative strategy for each assignment and develops work that fulfills the strategy and goals within that document in a cultural relevant and engaging way.This role reports to the Creative Director, with the senior leadership team advising on your different projects.Our ideal candidate should:

• Assist creative team by contributing to concepting and producing white papers, copy decks and presentation materials for internal and external presentations.
• Work with the Jr. Art Director on various campaign materials, understanding strategy and client goals, while adhering to brand guidelines.
• Generate copy that is grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate for a variety of media and targets.
• Learn and apply promotional tactics.
• Increase understanding and awareness of best practices, necessary technical knowledge and skill advances through attendance at trade and professional meetings and seminars, trade shows, perusal of the literature, and use of supplementary educational activities.

Qualifications

• Completion of a recognized program in copywriting (or related field), with a strong command of English.
• Approximately three to six months on the job experience necessary to gain understanding of internal standards, tools and effectively apply formal training to project management activities; completion of creative writing internship preferred.
• Technical: computer skills: proficient with Word and PowerPoint; competent knowledge of grammar and style, emerging proofing and self-editing capability; emerging grasp of marketing strategies and tactics; learning to write for a variety of media
• Interpersonal skills necessary in order to effectively exchange important information with internal and external clients, manage work flow within and across teams and recommend improvements to existing processes that impact client relations.
• Analytical skills necessary to evaluate schedules, budgets and client strategies against initial scope or work requested.

Additional InformationPublicis Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.