Lead Creative Producer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

• Produces a multitude of Tier1 and Tier 2 projects by coordinating timelines, project work scope, scheduling, logistics, and coordinating the appropriate parties from talent to financials
• Leads working team sessions to ensure the timely execution of projects and to maintain project alignment within the team and with project intent.
• Leads the management of the Digital Asset Management system.
• Manages the team that handles the trafficking and quality check of media assets.
• Ensures collaboration with channel partners for alignment of creative delivered through different mediums to the customer (banner, radio, tv, etc.)
• Collaborates with Creative Services, Merchandise Marketing, and Media to maintain consistency and ingenuity in messaging that positively impacts customer engagement, brand loyalty, and ultimately drives traffic to the store and/or to digital platforms.
• Translates strategy and project intent to creative teams and serves as a communication bridge between Marketing and creative/tactical resources.
• Works with capacity and portfolio planning to assess and monitor bandwidth and agency resources to ensure viability and feasibility of projects.
• Identifies emerging issues or concerns that could impact projects and recommends potentialsolutions/improvementsfor current project. Then documents these improvements to prevent repeat of issues in future project execution.
• Serves as escalation point for Creative Producers for project issues, risks, changes, etc. to provide support and resolution in a timely fashion.
• Develops creative solutions from working on a breadth of projects by finding new synergies across projects to increase efficiency, cost effectiveness, and value to the organization.

Years of Experience:

• 8+ years experience with 1+ year of team management preferred

Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors/Masters Degree in Marketing, Broadcast, Communications, Content, or Digital Marketing

Skill Set Required

Primary Skills (must have)

Key Skillsets:

• Proven experience in project management, with a focus on creative projects within a marketing or retail environment. Demonstrated understanding of Marketing and connection to broader enterprise functions
• Experience in project management or production
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Demonstrated self-starter

Secondary Skills (desired)

• Experience in a retail/home improvement environment
• Agile project management methodologies (scrum, sprint, etc.)
• Working knowledge of Workfront as a project Management tool