Creative Manager

About CREASIA
CREASIA is a leading marketing services company committed to connecting people with brands through outstanding experiences that drive growth. Guided by our core values: Customer Success, Ownership, Execution Excellence, Improve Daily, and Integrity - we strive to execute impressive campaigns and build sustainable partnerships across Asia.
Job Summary
Position Purpose: The Creative Manager leads the development of insight-driven, compelling and commercially viable creative solutions across Brand Activation, Experiential Marketing, Retail Engagement and Integrated Campaigns. The role is responsible for delivering creative excellence, strengthening pitch competitiveness, ensuring execution feasibility and developing a high-performing creative team.
Position Mission: Turning great ideas into winning proposals and impactful market experiences.
Key Responsibilities
1. Creative Strategy & Concept Development - 20%
Translate client briefs, brand objectives and consumer insights into strong creative concepts.
Develop campaign big ideas, activation mechanics, experiential journeys and creative storytelling.
Lead brainstorming and guide the creative development process.
Ensure concepts are relevant, differentiated, culturally appropriate and aligned with client objectives.
Collaborate with Commercial and Strategy teams to strengthen proposals.
2. Creative Quality & Pitch Excellence - 20%
Lead creative development of assigned pitches and proposals.
Supervise key visuals, presentations, creative narratives and campaign materials.
Present creative concepts clearly and persuasively to internal stakeholders and clients.
Ensure creative outputs meet CREASIA standards and client expectations.
Improve pitch competitiveness through stronger concepts, storytelling and presentation quality.
Minimize unnecessary revisions and maintain consistency across deliverables.
3. Execution Feasibility & Commercial Discipline - 20%
Work closely with Operations, Production and Procurement to validate feasibility.
Ensure creative solutions are executable within agreed timelines, budgets and operational constraints.
Understand project costing, Gross Profit (GP) and commercial guardrails.
Prevent creative over-scoping, avoidable rework and unnecessary production costs.
Recommend practical alternatives to optimize cost without compromising essential creative quality.
Escalate execution or margin risks before commitments are made.
4. Team Leadership & Development - 20%
Lead, coach and develop assigned Designers, Creative Executives and other creative team members.
Allocate workloads and establish clear quality standards, priorities and deadlines.
Provide regular feedback and support individual capability development.
Build a culture of creativity, accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Identify talent gaps and support recruitment, performance reviews and Individual Development Plans.
Improve team productivity and creative delivery consistency.
5. Innovation & Continuous Improvement - 10%
Explore creative trends, experiential technologies, digital engagement and AI-assisted tools.
Introduce practical improvements to creative workflows and output quality.
Encourage experimentation and new creative approaches.
Develop innovation pilots or case studies that enhance CREASIA competitive positioning.
Share learning and best practices across the creative team.
6. Core Values & Leadership Behaviors - 10%
Client Success: Create solutions that help clients achieve meaningful business outcomes.
Ownership: Take responsibility for creative commitments and results.
Execution Excellence: Maintain high standards and deliver with discipline.
Improve Daily: Continuously learn, improve and develop others.
Integrity: Act transparently and uphold company standards and procedures.