Creative Director - Copywriter

We're seeking a Creative Director - Copywriter to join our Creative Team within our Global Strategy, Content & Brand Group. In this role, you'll work closely with our ECD and Creative Director Art Director.

You'll be expected to concept, execute, and champion ideas and work that break the status quo and elevate the quality of our creative product across sales and marketing. As a Creative leader, you'll create compelling, relevant, and customer-focused work. You'll be crucial in helping us continue to elevate and articulate our brand voice globally.

You'll collaborate with teammates within SCB, including strategists, whom you'll partner with on briefs to help uncover and amplify insights that make our work resonate with our customers. You'll get to work on Global cross-functional teams and need to build relationships with our business partners to help us create effective marketing.

This role requires passion, perseverance, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Like all strong CDs, you'll need to be comfortable driving to clarity from complexity and have an unwavering desire to pursue great ideas that help our business and brand. Do you love advertising?

It's an exciting time to join IDEXX if you like building a brand in a booming category. Pet ownership has exploded globally, and IDEXX is leading the way in helping the Veterinarian Community care for pets. There's nothing like the feeling you get knowing you've helped veterinarians keep the pets we all love healthy and happy.

Responsibilities In The Role

• Ensure we stay current - on top of the latest creative, technology, video, and digital trends.
• Push the quality of all work to be as good as any outside creative agency.
• Develop relationships across the organization with critical partners and key stakeholders.
• Partner and work collaboratively with Strategists.
• Own your projects from strategy through execution.
• Help create an environment that's fun and conducive to idea generation and iteration.
• Create, write, execute, and deliver ideas that work on screens, platforms, or stages.
• Participate in strategic and creative presentations.

What You Will Need To Succeed

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A collaborative spirit.
• Not required, but a bonus if you have client-side experience and have created good work.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.
• The ability to think on your feet and work agilely.
• A modern advertising portfolio full of superb work showcasing your conceptual expertise, writing skills, and work in various mediums. Must have the ability to write headlines.
• Passion, a strong point of view, and a smile.
• Be able to think B2H (Business to Human). Not B2B.
• Must be customer-focused and able to understand and empathize with our customers.
• 7-10 years' experience in an agency setting.

Why IDEXX

We’re proud of the work we do, because our work matters. An innovation leader in every industry we serve, we follow our Purpose and Guiding Principles to help pet owners worldwide keep their companion animals health and happy, to ensure safe drinking water for billions, and to help farmers protect livestock and poultry from disease. We have customers in over 175 countries and a global workforce of over 10,000 talented people.

So, what does that mean for you? We enrich livelihoods of our employees with a positive and respectful work culture that embraces challenges and encourages learning and discovery. At IDEXX, you will be supported by competitive compensation, incentives and benefits while enjoying purposeful work that drives improvement.

Let’s pursue what matters together!

IDEXX values a diverse workforce and workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBT individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

IDEXX is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.