Creative Manager Job Description
Creative manager
provides content expertise in relation to Company's newly adopted Digital Asset Management platform, Veeva Vault that includes file types that include but are not limited to photoshop, indesign, html, imagery files and other various production file types.
Creative Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Works with Creative leads and Finance/Operations management to develop staffing and capacity plans to ensure the department is positioned for success
Provides periodic evaluations of utilization and productivity, and systematically reports these results to the discipline, finance, and operations leadership
Estimate the amount of time required to create the required assets
Review each brief that comes from production into the creative team
Manage and administrate the day-to-day production of company-wide creative needs in a timely manner
Provide mentorship and sound management practices to the Creative Services staff
Receive and review incoming shot lists, compile and combine various requests based on photo direction, timelines and budgets
Optimize shoot days through oversight of daily scheduling and adherence to minimum daily standards
Obtain cost estimates for all photo shoots
Monitor and approve product costs associated with product creation
Creative Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Creative Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, FB, SEO, CAPM, CSM, IG, PRINCE2, CATTI, TEM-8
Education for Creative Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the creative manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Marketing, Graphic Design, Advertising, Design, Communications, Business, Education, Management, Fine Arts, Journalism
Skills for Creative Manager
Desired skills for creative manager include:
Illustrator
HTML
Photoshop
Word
Excel
InDesign
Flash
Outlook
Microsoft Office Suite
Acrobat
Desired experience for creative manager includes:
Manage the day-to-day liaison with creative agencies with regard to the production, localisation and post-production of the approved creative campaign – posters, POS, trailers, centralised online breaks, TV spots, radio spots, web media/interactive assets, websites and other AV materials
Responsible for ensuring that all communication processes between the territories and the Head Office teams, involved in the delivery of any aspects of the creative campaign, are clear, concise and robust
Bachelor’s degree in related field – Public Relations, Communications, Design
Ability to translate account team and client needs for design teams
A Minimum of 5 years experience in the Creative Advertising and Marketing Arenas
Intermediate to expert knowledge of the latest Adobe Creative Suite of products
Creative Manager Examples
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of creative manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for creative manager
- Meets with internal and external teams to organize proposals, formalize ideas and campaign overviews
- Oversees online advertising campaigns (banners, large takeovers, search, ) and provides creative direction with media outlets and large partners (Yahoo, AOL)
- Actively attend project kickoff meetings or regular conference calls with international and domestic affiliates and stakeholders
- Build and maintain knowledge of past and current project scopes, requesters’ requirements, creative guidelines, and visual rights to facilitate accurate and on brand collateral
- Conduct daily check ins with traffic team to ensure projects are on track
- Manage the workflow and lifecycle of projects from creative brief to asset delivery
- Work between the creative team and all other departments to support the company’s creative needs
- Identify project scopes and strategies needed to streamline the creation and execution of deliverables
- Define deadlines, negotiate timelines when needed, and manage expectations of project stakeholders
- Handle multiple tasks and be flexible to project changes
Qualifications for creative manager
- Familiarity with apple FCP, motion, DVD studio pro and general digital video production work-flows
- Visual talent/eye for design, particularly in digital and video
- An ability to distill client input into strategic and innovative marketing solutions, and communicate those ideas through well crafted and expertly written analysis
- 5+ years of creative experience with a social media developer, home entertainment company, a design studio, an advertising agency and/or in a related industry
- Minimum 3 years of entertainment industry experience
- Successfully directed agencies or internal artists on creative layouts and campaigns with strong portfolio to illustrate success
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a creative manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for creative manager
- Create and deliver content design documentation to aid with cross-team communication, collaboration and development
- Collaborate with visual designers, UX designers, instructional designers, interaction designers, and media editors to ensure new K-12 courses come together as a cohesive visually appealing experience
- Partner with Product Managers and course owners to influence product design
- Partner with executives, leaders, and other stakeholders to define smart strategies that align business and customer needs
- Lead the design look and feel of higher education courses, various curriculum products, online and in person training materials, publications, brochures, promotional flyers, posters, templates, forms, and larger scale graphics for events
- Lead the development and implementation of communication and marketing strategies to disseminate information about projects and products across multiple programs within the COE
- Attend leadership planning meetings and present strategic and creative direction of contract/grant deliverables, materials, products
- Use creative expertise to interpret PI’s vision to make tangible and deliverable products
- Manage the email delivery system and design the look and feel of email communications
- Using analytics from a variety of platforms recommend approach to product dissemination
Qualifications for creative manager
- 3-5 years experience in brand marketing, advertising, media, digital or sports / entertainment marketing
- Resourcefulness and solution-oriented mindset •Retail Industry experience preferred
- Some knowledge of Final Cut Pro and Keynote a plus
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Communications
- Minimum of five years’ experience in a resource management or traffic role at an advertising agency, corporate in-house advertising environment or other project management experience in a business setting
- Ideal candidate has significant experience with print and a general working knowledge of digital, and a willingness to learn
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Our growing company is looking for a creative manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for creative manager
- Help guide multi-disciplinary teams in producing and assembling submissions including video case studies, campaign write ups, and visual boards
- Develop and nurture relationships with external award show organization and industry contacts
- Set and pro-actively communicate internal reviews, deadlines, submission specs and milestones in a clear and articulate manner
- Ensure that all work stays on task, on track and on budget
- Manage budgets and offer insights around categories for submission
- Build day-to-day internal relationships with creative team that enable strong partnerships
- Maintain library database of the best work and show insights for winning submissions among internal creative teams
- Lead the design team towards continued improvements related to design tactics and strategies
- Coordinate overall creative team resources to deliver assignments, projects and campaigns on time
- Present creative work to clients for review and approval and in project meetings
Qualifications for creative manager
- Ability to meet strict deadlines required
- Experience in a finance or business development preferred
- Experience in Collectibles, toy, licensing and/or entertainment fields preferred
- A minimum of 8 years’ experience in digital content creation, proven background in digital project delivery
- Must be highly organized, self-driven, and a great team player
- 5+ years in project management or print production
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of creative manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative manager
- Proactively build on pre-existing network of flexible workforce (freelancers, contractors, vendors)
- Track and manage talent database of flexible workforce, including freelancers, contractors and agencies/vendors
- Works with project managers and brand operations team to insure proper billing and invoicing
- Manage resourcing forecast spreadsheets for all departments based on input from weekly meetings and the Production Team
- Monitor day to day project activities and resourcing, identifying potential instances of over / under utilization and actively work with department leads to address and solve those issues
- Create reports of key performance indicators of timeliness, quality, and costs and analyze data modifying priorities to fit schedules and budgets leading to purchasing of new technologies
- Continually evolve the team's vision and strategy as we both learn from and grow our licensed content
- Develop a disciplined approach to working with external agencies and designers to achieve creative integrity and timelines at scale
- Build strong relationships with studio creative teams
- Communicate the purpose and workflow of Product Creative across internal cross-functional teams
Qualifications for creative manager
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you can make a clear case for what you're doing and why
- Customer-service orientation and accountable can-do attitude
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment – you are well organized, have excellent attention to detail, meet tasks on short deadlines and prioritize
- Previous experience in online display advertising
- Experience with mobile advertising, video advertising, web analytics
- Experience with Rich Media, Video and Mobile platforms (DoubleClick, Innovid, Pointroll, Celtra, Crisp )
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of creative manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative manager
- Increase partnership revenues from Agency and Client briefs through delivering best in class (Award nominated) solutions
- Support Sales and Client teams on Agency and Client pitches - predominantly on response to brief
- Act as the primary contact for all partnership briefs from agency specialists while ensuring the sales team are across your pro-active approaches
- Liaise with our Sales and Operations teams to develop and deliver media plans to deliver on Creative ideas
- Ensure clear, definitive delivery plans with Activation, Sales and Operations teams
- Support the Head of Department to evolve and deliver best in class PCA reporting on Partnerships
- Promote insights, case-studies and creative examples to substantiate partnership credentials
- Manage internal reporting of briefs, conversions and pipelines
- Manages time-sensitive website and advertising production materials and assets
- Oversees creative advertising campaigns and provides creative direction with media outlets and large partners (Yahoo, AOL)
Qualifications for creative manager
- Electronic Mail Software (Microsoft Outlook preferred)
- Master’s degree in graphic design, visual communication, information design, communication, or a similar field, to include a minimum of 5-10 years of experience in graphic design, communications experience and supervisory experience
- Expert knowledge of CMS, HTML and CSS
- Expert knowledge of email design, multiple delivery systems and related analytics
- Exceptional visual design and creative skills, and a strong understanding of design principles for print and digital materials
- Strong knowledge of branding and communication strategies