Associate Creative Director Job at The Clorox Company
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Your role at Clorox:
Electro Creative Workshop is looking for an Associate Creative Director with expertise in brand packaging. This is a hybrid role based out of our Burt’s Bees office in Durham, NC. Partnering with account management, project management, and strategy, you will oversee a talented team of designers and production artists to lead the day-to-day development and execution of marketing efforts, with an emphasis on packaging concepts.
The role will be responsible for bringing brands to life on the physical and digital shelf. The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a passion for creating breakthrough creative work.
The role requires a strong understanding of brand standards, design systems, and brand continuity. With many line extensions and product forms coming from master brands, the Associate Creative Director must be able to effectively communicate the differences between products while still ensuring that the brand presence stays consistent. In addition, the Associate Creative Director must help drive change for brands, providing insight and creative ideas to help our brands become more appealing to new audiences, including younger NextGen audiences.
Reporting to the Creative Director, you will partner with an Associate Creative Director with expertise in content marketing to drive brand consistency and marketing excellence across all touchpoints.
In this role, you will:
CREATIVE DIRECTION AND MARKETING
- Manage print/packaging creative execution for a group of Clorox brands, ensuring a standard of excellence and consistency across all of our creative executions.
- Drive creative vision for print packaging for select brands, developing and maintaining brand standards to ensure consistent and compelling brand voice.
- Create print and packaging solutions that help brands resonate and grow with diverse audiences, with a growing focus on younger, multi cultural millennial audiences.
- Experience partnering with strategy and content creatives to create a consistent brand experience across all touch points, from retail and digital shelf to owned digital and social.
- Ability to move quickly and offer low-touch creative guidance on quick turnkey projects, including claims or ingredient changes and product size changes.
- Expertise in providing inspiration and new thinking that deviates from established brand standards when required, including for some line extensions, product rebrands and new innovations.
- Strong point of view and leadership skills, including an ability to make decisions on creative concepts to bring to brand reviews and willingness to make strong recommendations to brand partners – with compelling rationale – on which option best solves the business challenge.
- Work closely with partners in account management, strategy and project management to understand business goals and brainstorm and execute creative solutions.
- Drive human centered, purpose-focused ideas for brands, making sure that all marketing connects with people.
- Serve as creative contact for day-to-day brand partners
- Evaluate assignments/opportunities and allocate the correct creative resource (designers, writers, production artists) needed to serve the brand challenge.
- Assemble creative presentations, from concept to execution with the help of account and project management.
- Meet billable hour requirements while also driving revenue growth through new ideas
TALENT LEADERSHIP AND PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
- Manage a team of 1-4 creative specialists, including writers and designers, with an eye towards advancing careers and removing obstacles to their success.
- Identify and engage specialist partners, both within Clorox FTE network and 3rd party contract organizations to align the right creative talent to the brand challenge.
- Manages team utilization rate, ensuring that team members are working and workloads are equitable throughout their team
- Creates actionable developmental plans for direct reports and provides continuous feedback to encourage continuing growth for leaders.
- Right size the team effort, ensuring low-creative lift work moves quickly with few layers, while higher value work receives more scrutiny and attention.
CLIENT MANAGEMENT/EXTERNAL FOCUS
- Establishes strong relationships with brand partners
- Understands our corporate strategy and goals. Ensures all Electro strategies are tied to them and they are effectively communicated to the team.
- Stays abreast of industry and marketing landscape, understanding best practices and new opportunities
What we look for:
- 7+ years experience in creative marketing (as a copywriter, packaging designer or art director) with experience in ad, branding or packaging agencies.
- Leaderships and development of creative projects including packaging, owned-digital, film/video and other content creation.
- Minimum 1 years as a people manager of other creative employees, contractors, and vendors.
- Experience developing brand standards and brand voice.
Desirable requirements:
- Creative operations experience in a medium to large organization
- In-house experience a plus.
- Understanding of print production process.
- Direction of photography shoots setting consistent and ownable asset libraries that work across entire brand ecosystems
- Understands production budgets and timelines
- Work in the consumer packaged goods categories.
- International experience a plus
Skills and Abilities
- Superstar: Candidates currently in leadership positions at agencies or client groups, with a track record of innovative thinking & operational excellence.
- Connected: A student of pop-culture who is up to date on cultural trends relevant to all of our target audiences.
- Leadership: Proven track record leading teams and developing followership.
- Envisioning and strategic thinking: Ability to envision the evolution of the creative experience and guide a team.
- Passion for winning: Go-getter with the relentless pursuit of excellence and brand growth in a competitive, changing landscape.
- Integrated thinker: Fluent in a wide range of disciplines and an appreciation of specialties. Is digitally fluent and media saavy.
- Key Collaborator: Seen as a leader in driving integration between teams and specialists
- Relationship builder: Strong relationship building and communications skills, able to balance demanding client needs while simultaneously motivating teams to do great work.
- Creativity: Strong creative sensibilities, able to drive and dig into the creative process, champion the work.
Education Level/Degree:
- Bachelors Degree required
Workplace type:
We seek out and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a non-stop drive to keep growing and learning.
At Clorox, we have a Culture of Inclusion. We believe our values-based culture connects to our purpose and helps our people be the best versions of themselves, professionally and personally. This means building a workplace where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate in our Clorox community. Learn more about our I&D program & initiatives
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[U.S.]Additional Information:
At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more.
We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.
–Zone A: $116,700 - $229,800
–Zone B: $107,000 - $210,700
–Zone C: $97,200 - $191,500
All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.
Please apply directly to our job postings and do not submit your resume to any person via text message. Clorox does not conduct text-based interviews and encourages you to be cautious of anyone posing as a Clorox recruiter via unsolicited texts during these uncertain times.
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