Senior Creative Copywriter - Essentia Water - HYBRID

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Are you a fantastic storyteller-consistently coming up with great narratives that impress colleagues and internal/external clients? Essentia Water, a leading brand within the premium bottled water category, is looking for a talented, experienced, and passionate Creative Copywriter to join our award-winning team. This individual will be working alongside creative partners to create original ideas and craft compelling copy that pushes boundaries in the industry. The Creative Copywriter must exhibit outstanding writing skills and work collaboratively with the creative team in achieving the highest possible standards for all materials that require written communication. They need strong working knowledge of digital, social, retail environments, and OOH, while servicing communication channels and solving business challenges creatively.

If you're an expert in the craft of written communication, storytelling, and building and adjusting the brand voice across multiple platforms, then this mid-senior level Creative Copywriter role might be for you! For any given project, you may be called on to write headlines, both short form and long form brand and product copy, social media posts, or supply fresh, creative ideas. To bring these ideas to life, you'll collaborate with a world-class creative team, resulting in brilliant ideas that help move business and brand forward.

Key Responsibilities:

• Continue to build and authentically adjust Essentia's brand voice across platforms and creative work.
• "Own" the idea, story, and copy direction of all assigned projects.
• Proof and make sure all copy related projects are accurate, on tone, and on brand for each marketing channel.
• Work independently at times, under tight deadlines, while juggling multiple projects.
• Actively participate in meetings, present ideas that add noticeable value.
• Lead creative work sessions.
• Have the single-minded goal of producing and executing award-winning creative work; it's not good enough to present upward until it meets the Sr. CC's own standards.
• Utilize the power of consumer insights to drive smarter, relevant, strategic thinking.
• Sweat the details, understanding the multi-faceted world of our visual Brand, including tone of voice, how we tell our story to prospects and customers, as well as our client's legal requirements.
• Act as a team lead when required - driving the key touchpoints of assigned projects + working closely with the Project Managers and creatives to help keep jobs on track and on brand.
• Possess top-notch communication skills, working well with a wide range of people across diverse disciplines and promotes team collaboration.
• Sell creative ideas and develop positive relationships + trustworthiness within our organization and agency partners.
• Develop a close tie to both Project Managers and MarComm Team members to help play an active role in driving brilliant creative work and engaging copy.
• Act as a direct link to the Head of Brand Creative and helps monitor individual skillset goals and growth, department morale, and areas of opportunity for the Creative team.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of Creative Copywriter level work with strong conceptual ideas and writing examples in portfolio (please provide link to portfolio).
• A portfolio with a range of experience in brands, project size, and contribution.
• Ability to adapt brand voice across platforms and authentically adjust without losing essence of the brand.

Skills/Experience:

• Experience with building a world-class lifestyle brand, digital first mindset.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results on creative projects.
• Leads by example and possesses a strong work ethic and "can do" attitude.
• Has an understanding that all projects require strict attention to detail so that work is on-time, on-brief, on-budget and on-strategy.
• Has excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritize work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of design language and how copy can be executed.
• Has the ability to quickly shift voices between Web, Social, Retail environments, corporate communications, and OOH.
• Has the ability to collaborate well with creative partners.

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