Danone North America Looking for Senior Manager, Creative Strategy and Design at Broomfield, CO  Full Time

About the Job:

The Senior Manager, Creative will oversee creative strategy and direction across the corporate functions at Danone North America, helping craft the vision, mission, and culture for the organization, while producing outstanding content in partnership with the Corporate Communications team. They will lead creative communications from idea through execution and activation, bringing both internal and external campaigns and initiatives to life.

The Senior Manager, Creative’s creative vision and direction needs to inspire corporate storytelling that is human-centric, emotional and culturally relevant to our audiences, developed for corporate-specific channels, while delivering against key business communications priorities.

This position will be located in our Broomfield, CO office.

Scope of Responsibility:

The primary requirement for this candidate is a balance of outstanding creative sensibilities and pragmatic business execution: an individual who can excel at understanding a strategic business challenge, and then build creative solutions that tell a visual story, while building meaning into – and connection with – the business. The Senior Manager, Creative will also need to balance having a strong creative POV with ability to receptively understand and incorporate feedback, to protect and steward great work through myriad opinions and inputs.

This individual also needs to be skilled at engaging with our CEO and senior leadership team on critical needs with short deadlines.

Creative Content Development

• Partner across the Communications team and other internal stakeholders to visually bring internal and external storytelling to life including social and corporate marketing campaigns, employee engagement campaigns, CEO presentations for high-profile external speaking events and internal company milestones, and more.
• Craft visual elements that can be leveraged across a wide range of media and project types, including brand identities, communication campaigns, social media posts, multipage documents, website, intranet, corporate and leader presentations, fact sheets, brochures, signage, event collateral, and more.
• Create clear and concise story-driven data visualizations in support of projects and presentations, as required.
• Provide a strategic vision when working with web and print design style guides and corporate identity standards.
• Creative Asset Management

• Act as the primary contact for all creative assets within the Digital Asset Management too including but not limited to: videos, packaging shots, event photos, logos, campaign collateral, lifestyle photography, and more.
• Partner with the global comms / marketing team to ensure alignment between global and NORAM brand standards at a strategic and tactical level.
• Support of other internal teams, as needed, on an adhoc basis e.g. ES&T, Sales.

About You:

• B.A. in Design or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years Creative Agency experience, ultimately serving as Creative Director/ECD
• Strong plus if candidate also has client-side experience
• Strong experience leading a team and developing best in advertising campaigns
• Strong understanding of the impact and evolution of advertising in the eyes of consumers, building people first work that also meets business objectives.
• High level of Proficiency in In Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, PowerPoint
• Experience in research and analysis and design cycles
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present concepts to marketing and communications teams and review concepts/boards in a persuasive manner.
• Ability to work with others proactively and collaboratively in a cross-matrix organization
• A strong creative eye for aesthetics and branding
• Friendly disposition and positive attitude
• Ability to work the hours demanded of the job

The base compensation range for this position is $125,000-$135,000 commensurate with experience. Danone North America additionally offers a performance-based bonus and has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, 401k Plan, Wellness Program, Life Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Time Off, and Paid Parental Bonding Leave, among other benefit plan options.

About Us:

At Danone North America, you’ll work with some of the best-known food and beverage brands in the world like Activia, Silk, Horizon Organic, Two Good, Oikos, evian, and Happy Family. You’ll be part of the largest Certified B Corp in the world, working together to make sure our brands create real benefits for people, communities, and the planet. We have 6,000+ employees across the U.S. and Canada. Come join our movement for a healthier world: One Planet. One Health BY YOU.

Danone North America doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit and business needs. We recruit, employ, train and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, genetic characteristic or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect.

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