Marketing Lead - Creative

Our Marketing team has an open opportunity for a Lead in our Creative Services group. The Marketing Lead – Creative is responsible for developing original creative / design concepts and approaches. She/he oversees multiple projects through execution and oversees all creative operations. The creative lead directs the activities of his/her staff to maintain the in-house creative teams’ standards of creative excellence, timeliness, and profitability, while achieving the business partners’ goals.

This is what you'll do...

Creative Excellence

• Develops and delivers thought leadership and creative solutions
• Responsible for articulating and defending conceptual and directional choices
• Promotes continual creative improvement and actively contributes to a culture of innovation, excellence and accountability
• Ensures the timely development and execution of plan, campaigns, and projects to assure earnings, growth, and profit goals are achieved

Budget Management

• Plans, develops, and defends budget recommendations, work goals, measurements, and training requirements necessary to provide both profitable and quality service to business partners
• Provides detailed information and cost estimates to assure accurate data on which to plan and develop functional objectives and budgets

Talent Management

• Provides leadership/motivation/training/mentoring and conveys the vision and values of Creative Services to the creative staff
• Oversees creative consultations with project managers to assure appropriate creative strategies, adequacy/accuracy of input, schedules, budgets, production support, necessary reviews, and business partner presentations
• Assures the staff adheres to established policy/procedures
• Maintains external professional relationships to assure the ongoing availability of specialized expertise, gifted freelancers, and reputable studios/producers when their services are required

We are looking for someone with...

A minimum of eight (8) years’ experience at an advertising, marketing or communications agency or equivalent, including serving a national/global organization. In addition, she/he will have demonstrated the following:

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong understanding of brand development and multi-channel marketing concepts
• Strong production experience in traditional and non-traditional channels including video, print/design, social and digital
• The ability to clearly present information through the spoken or written word; read, interpret and articulate complex information
• Experience with a variety of software, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, etc.
• Experience managing budgets, clients and teams
• Motorcycle rider, or willing to become one
• Ability to travel 25-30% is required

We offer an inclusive compensation package for all full-time salaried employees including, but not limited to, annual bonus programs, health insurance benefits, a 401k program, onsite fitness centers and employee stores, employee discounts on products and accessories, and more. We believe that employees do their best work when they are free to be themselves. This means our dress code is relaxed, and all types of work styles are welcomed.