RRD IS NOW HIRING FOR AN ASSOCIATE CREATIVE DIRECTOR - PACKAGING & RETAIL IN MOORESVILLE, NC!
RR Donnelley is a Fortune 500 company, founded in 1864 with over 10,000 employees worldwide. With clients ranging from retail, hospitality, and beyond. Ours is a culture of respect, diversity, partnership, and results. We believe in supporting clients to the best of our ability and creating onsite teams that support one another while working together towards one common goal.
Do you want to create compelling branding and creative strategies for one the top home improvement retailers in the world? Are you a visionary with the ability to quickly concept, lead and inspire a small group of designers into creating award winning work for a premier client? The Associate Creative Director, Private Brands, works as part of an in-house creative services team, and is responsible for developing original insights, brand-building ideas, and creative strategies, in partnership with the Creative Manager and a team of designers, writers, producers, and project managers.
With first-hand knowledge of packaging and packaging systems, the ACD will be leading creative solutions for a number of brands, building strong relationships and presenting to teammates and stakeholders throughout the company. Effective communication and a background of driving and nurturing talent is essential, as is an appreciation of process and workflow.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Collaborates and interacts regularly with the client’s creative manager and client strategic teams on the development of concepts, strategies, and stakeholder presentations
- Understanding requests
- Balancing new information with existing standards to determine solutions that support (and sometimes extend) brand guidelines
- Directing and nurturing idea development
- Expert understanding of the client brand, design needs and methodology.
- Effective communication with peers, senior management and client across all topics from team/people management, business to creative.
- Manage, mentor and build teams of designers, production artists and copywriters.
- Manages the talent recruitment and development for the creative team.
- Ability to lead by example and cultivate the creative atmosphere that will motivate and drive the team to be successful for RRD and the client.
- Excellent presentation skills with ability to lead client discovery sessions, present and communicate how the concept meet objectives and expectations.
- Provides senior leadership with current project updates, challenges and opportunities.
- Promotes collaboration, support and inclusion to create a positive work environment.
- Effectively communicates with client and RRD leadership regarding situations that require decisions, actions and may include problems.
- Leading and participating in brainstorming sessions
- Meeting objectives, values, budgets, and deadlines
- Ensuring brand identity and messaging are consistent
- Managing multiple projects concurrently
- Requesting resources according to project needs
- Keeping up with the latest trends, strategies, and technologies
- Evaluating team performance and recommending improvements
RRD IS AN EEO/AA INCLUDING VETS AND DISABLED EMPLOYER
Required Skills
- BA DEGREE OR EQUIVALENT EXPERIENCE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN, PACKAGING DESIGN, ART DIRECTION, ADVERTISING, MARKETING OR RELATED FIELD
- 7+ YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE IN A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT AND A PORTFOLIO THAT DEMONSTRATES EXPERIENCE DESIGNING PACKAGING AND PACKAGING SYSTEMS, LOGOS, ICONS, PHOTO ART DIRECTION
- Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite in a MAC environment
- Strong creative mind with concept, strategy development, and creative resolution skills
- Experience leading and managing creative teams, freelance resources and their associated output
- Solid knowledge of brand design principles and development
- Self-starter able to begin process from scratch
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Superior organizational skills with strong attention to detail
- The ability to be hands-on with a roll-up-sleeves attitude
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPG / hardlines experience
- Experience with Workfront or other project management tools
- Knowledge of digital asset management tools
- Knowledge of print production process
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
Additional job requirements may be listed on the staffing requisition.
Required Experience