Evenflo Company, Inc. is hiring: Executive Creative Director in Canton

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of 10 including art directors, copy writers, photographer, graphic designer and video editor
• Oversees the development and concepting of brand and product campaigns
• Responsible for all asset and creative executions for DTC and retail partner content from ecommerce to social to paid media
• Translates marketing objectives into clear creative strategies and outputs
• Champions brand strategies and leads the execution of marketing creative deliverables
• Oversee the resourcing and development of the team across various projects
• Owns the overall brand guidelines
• Ensures that art direction and design approaches support core brand strategies and business goals
• Partners closely with the brand marketing and product marketing team to ensure a cohesive visual identity and tone for the brand
• Identifying and partnering with external creative agencies and production houses as needed

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience at a client-side/in-brand creative group, directing a broad range of work from Print to Digital and full 360 campaigns
• Experience directing and producing on-model shoots and campaigns
• Juvenile industry experience and/or working on set with kids preferred
• Familiarity working in a retail driven business environment and used to hitting deadlines, meeting objectives and KPIs
• Proven leadership of a creative team, driving innovation and brand differentiation while meeting budget and deadline expectations
• Extraordinary conceptual skills. A positive, inspirational leadership style that brings teams and department together
• An energetic flexible and approachable work style.
• Direct experience strategically developing creative solutions and campaigns across TV, print, digital, radio, out of home, retail, tradeshows/Events

Required Skills & Technical Competencies

• Strong problem analysis skills and contingency planning- ability to dissect complex problems into manageable components.
• Proficient with MS Office Suite.

Required Behavioral Competencies:

• Personal Leadership - Leads by envisioning the future, engaging others, energizing people, and enabling self and others to develop and execute plans to deliver strategy.
• Builds Partnerships - Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Contributes to Team Success - Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals.
• Gains Commitment - Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifies one's own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved. Charisma to take on difficult issues and hold people accountable without being offensive.
• Initiates Action - Takes prompt action to accomplish objectives; takes action to achieve goals beyond what is required; is initiative-taking.
• Work Standards - Sets lofty standards of performance for self and others; assumes responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self imposes standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.

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