Creative Manager

Job Title: Creative Manager

Reports to: Senior Marketing Manager/Director Marketing & CRM

Department: Advertising Department

Job Location: Head Office

Al Habtoor Motors is seeking a Creative Manager to join our newly expanded Advertising Department. This person will lead creative function, managing visual, design, and content development across campaigns. The role requires a highly creative individual with strong leadership, brand storytelling skills, automotive/luxury brand experience, and the ability to translate business objectives into impactful creative campaigns across digital and 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development of all creative concepts, campaigns, and designs across brands (Mitsubishi, FUSO, JAC, Bentley, Bugatti, etc.).
• Manage a team of designers, copywriters, animators, and content creators to ensure timely delivery of creative assets.
• Collaborate with the Advertising Manager and Social Media Manager to align creative output with strategy and channel requirements.
• Translate brand objectives into creative briefs, ensuring clarity, brand alignment, and campaign relevance.
• Oversee production of creative assets across digital, print, video, OOH, and experiential activations.
• Ensure consistency of brand identity, visual language, and tone across all communication materials.
• Collaborate with external agencies, production houses, and freelancers when required.
• Stay updated on creative, design, and advertising trends in the automotive, luxury, and mobility sectors.
• Present creative concepts and campaigns to senior stakeholders for approval.
• Oversee quality control of all creative output, ensuring it meets both Al Habtoor Motors and OEM brand guidelines.
• Create concepts and theme for product launches, events, product display, activations etc.
• Mentor, coach, and inspire the creative team to deliver innovative and impactful work.
• Well verse with the adaptation requirements for digital and traditional marketing
• Able to work on various graphic designing tools and software’s to provide creative concepts
• Updated with the latest AI trends and able to utilize AI for the deliverables

Skills & Qualifications Required

Essentials

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, Fine Arts, Advertising, Marketing, or related field.
• 5–7 years of managerial experience as creative lead, preferably in an advertising agency or with an automotive brand
• Proven ability to deliver creative concepts that drive sales, awareness, and engagement.
• Excellent management skills; able to lead, motivate, and develop a creative team.
• Strong portfolio showcasing multi-channel creative campaigns (digital, print, OOH, video, experiential).
• Work under pressure and able to manage deadlines by delivering high quality work
• Deep understanding of consumer behavior and creative storytelling in UAE automotive and luxury sectors.
• Always monitoring the competitor offers and latest industry trends
• Ability to manage multiple campaigns simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferably to have motion graphics, video direction, or photography oversight experience.

Technical Knowledge

• Design tools: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere) etc.
• Digital creative formats and specifications across social, display, video, and OOH.
• UX/UI basics for web and mobile creative adaptations.
• Understanding of SEO/SEM creative best practices (ad copy, display visuals, landing page UX).
• Creative production workflows (print, OOH, radio/TV, photography, video shoots).
• Familiarity with media formats, ad serving requirements, and campaign specs.
• Knowledge of creative testing (A/B testing, creative optimization techniques).
• Brand/OEM guideline compliance and UAE advertising regulations.
• Strong grasp of consumer journey, ensuring creative supports awareness, engagement, and conversion.

Must-Have

• Proven track record delivering impactful creative campaigns in UAE
• Experience across both digital and traditional media creative formats.
• Strong leadership and team management experience.
• Ability to balance creativity with commercial objectives.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Cultural awareness and understanding are strongly preferred.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with attention to detail.
• Portfolio that demonstrates work with automotive, luxury, or high-value consumer brands.
• UAE Driver’s License.