Executive Manager - Creative Direction | BigAudit​/Consulting Major

Position: Executive Manager - Creative Direction | Big4 Audit / Consulting Major
About the company:

The organization is the world's largest professional services network, with more than 470,000 people across 150+ countries and territories. Operating as a network of member firms, the organization serves clients across four business areas — Audit & Assurance, Tax & Legal, Strategy, Risk & Transactions, and Technology & Transformation — including a large share of the Fortune Global 500. Its work spans digital and AI transformation, cloud, cyber, risk, and regulatory advisory.

About the role:

The organization seeks a creative director to lead a team of 70+ India-based creatives responsible for the ideation, execution, and production of high-impact, memorable work. Aligned with the vision and priorities of US leadership, the team combines world-class creativity, business knowledge, and the organisation's powerful brand equity to help client teams make an impact with buyers. The ideal candidate finds an opportunity where others do not, thrives in a supportive and diverse team environment, keeps a finger on the pulse of cultural trends and emerging technologies, and applies new ideas that challenge the status quo.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and team inspiration:

Inspire and guide an India-based creative team (designers, copywriters, videographers, UI/UX specialists) to achieve and align with the priorities of US creative leadership.
Coach and oversee professional growth for India-based team leaders and members.
Create a collaborative, empowering environment that delivers creative excellence and attracts, develops, and retains top-tier creative talent.
Understand the go-to-market strategies for each business and the development and adoption of best practices across businesses.
Lead the integration and alignment of professionals across geographies, including the US and Costa Rica.

Creativity strategy and persuasive communication:

Set the creative vision and strategy, guiding teams in leveraging advanced art, design, and branding principles to deliver engaging visual stories and proposals.
Champion the use of “design thinking” methodologies to turn complex business ideas into compelling creative solutions.
Establish standards for communicating creative visions clearly to diverse audiences (clients, internal stakeholders, etc.).
Guide teams and professionals to create innovative solutions within the framework of the proposal and other deliverables.

Business acumen and innovation:

Demonstrate and cultivate across teams’ full expertise and understanding of the end-to-end proposal process.
Align creative solutions with business objectives and client requirements, maintaining a strong brand identity throughout.
Respond to evolving industry trends, client expectations, and competitive landscape, and recommend new areas for development and training to enhance the skills, knowledge, and capabilities of the creative team.
Champion the integration of AI-powered and other automation tools to streamline and drive efficiencies in the strategic creative process and deliverable production and scale across the broader pipeline

Project management and organizational management:

Provide strategic direction and oversight on creative support for the pursuit pipeline in close collaboration with US leadership.
Establish frameworks and best practices for resource management, empowering teams to efficiently deliver high-quality outputs.
Deliver regular utilization and efficiency reports to US leadership.
Set and uphold standards for accuracy and quality across creative outputs.

Required skills:

Leadership skills with the ability to generate and inspire innovation.
Executive presence, professional client service manner, ability to adapt and take initiative, and interact with all levels of management.
Strong client…