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Job Title: Art Director-Sr.

Location: Chicago, Richmond, McLean, New York, Boston, or Plano preferred

Duration: 12 months (with the potential to either extend or convert depending on requirement)

Position Type: Full-time, Contract

Job Description:

Our client, a highly reputable financial firm, is seeking a creative Sr. Art Director with a background in interaction design. This is a full-time contract position offering a large amount of creative responsibility and competitive hourly pay based on experience. In this role, you will be responsible for creating sophisticated designs for marketing programs and print deliverables while collaborating across departments within strict deadlines. Ideal candidates are highly-adaptable and detail-oriented design professionals with a Swiss-army knife skill set and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. * Design portfolio demonstrating web/interactive design experience required for consideration.

WHAT YOU’LL DO?

• Design. No surprise there, right?
• Design creative for a range of print and digital channels, including email, web, direct mail, display, and social media.
• Brainstorm big concepts one day and tackle detail-oriented projects the next.
• Influence, collaborate, and lead with a lot of smart people.
• Drive work with your team of art directors, creative directors, and brand and marketing strategists.
• Drive work with your partners internal marketing and line-of-business.
• Manage projects from start to finish, leading peers, contractors, and external agencies.
• Create marketing that cuts through the noise.
• Use strategy to inform your creative decisions.
• Understand the importance of integrated thinking across channels, products, and audiences, while staying true to the brand.
• Learn from consumer insights and let them influence your work.
• Be willing to push the process and mindsets of others to create great customer experiences and strengthen our brand.
• Get stuff done. On-time. Every time.
• Manage multiple deadlines on numerous projects happening at the same time.
• Deliver error-free work, using best practices with keen attention to detail.
• Listen to and incorporate feedback.
• Determine when to use existing solutions or start from scratch, so you can invest your time where it matters.
• Understand the goals of a project, take direction well, and ask questions when you need clarity.
• Present your work in a compelling way to create support across different audiences.

WHO YOU ARE?

• You want to be an EVIDENCE-BASED MARKETER.
• Your curiosity is endless. There’s always something else to learn.
• You’re flexible and not afraid of change, in fact, you welcome the challenge.
• You share your point of view but seek out what might be missing and listen.
• You have big ideas and know the best ones are driven by proof, persistence, and patience.
• You’re a storyteller. You simplify the complex and compel your audience to act.
• You know how to enjoy yourself. While fun isn’t mandatory, it certainly seems to follow you.
• You care about the work, your team, and the customers you serve.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of design experience in a professional setting
• At least 3 years of experience in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• At least 2 years of experience working with prototyping software, such as: Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
• Portfolio of your creative work

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience
• At least 1 year working as an Associate Creative Director or leading creative work
• At least 2 years of experience in UX/UI or wireframing
• Experience in one or more of the following marketing areas: B2B, Experiential, Performance, or Direct Response
• Experience in the financial services industry

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.

Mindlance

About Creative at The Escape Pod:

Creatives at The Escape Pod are experts at challenging comfortable — concepting, presenting, and executing ideas that are timely, rooted in insights, and thoughtful in craft. We help brands move beyond the ‘sea of sameness’ in ownable and authentic ways. We design, write, and produce creative across every medium to break through in culture, escaping the status quo. If that sounds exciting to you, then we’d love to talk to you about this opportunity on our team.

Job Overview:

The Escape Pod is looking for a Sr. Art Director who is a seasoned pro and loves the craft. Someone who is passionate about ideas, and persuasive in selling their ideas to others. Someone who is eager to collaborate, ideate and build things that don’t exist yet. We want your passion for pushing the envelope, cutting through the content clutter to shine in your work and how you present. Strategy and finding/leveraging human behaviors and insights is also what we’re looking for. We want a Sr. Art Director who can lead projects with their partner, concepting, shaping, re-shaping, etc., constantly striving for the best ideas.

What You’ll Do:

• Brainstorm and develop strategically sound creative concepts
• Lead social content that brings strategy to life across platforms. From social-first activations to platform hacks, tentpole moments to evergreen content, the internet will be your oyster.
• Must stay current on all existing, new, and emerging technologies that relate to social media, as well as cultural trends
• Present work internally and to clients
• Own a project from conception through completion
• You will lead projects and also work as part of a team in large or small groups in a collaborative fashion
• You will be proactive in bringing ideas to the table that are above and beyond the current asks
• Take direction from CDs and continue to learn
• Be a part of new business pitches

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years relevant work experience
• Portfolio of your work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Extremely detail oriented and organized
• Professional and assertive with the ability to keep cool and think clearly under pressure
• Proven ability to work on a team through annual brand planning and building of a campaign from the ground up
• Experience leading creative projects and teams

About The Escape Pod:

At the Escape Pod, we don’t claim to do a million things just OK. We do four things brilliantly: Strategy, Creative, Production, and Partnership. We help clients escape from predictable to, well, not. We help clients escape from the crowded space to the white space. We help clients escape the old school notion of ‘bossy agencies’ to a world of empathetic partnership. We’re a 2-time winner of AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year Award and in 2022 we’ll be the first agency ever to host the Small Agency Conference and Awards in our office.

Additional Information:

The Escape Pod is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender identity, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities or any other protected basis because we believe the best and brightest come from all walks of life. We aspire to foster a community in which diversity is valued in both our employees and our ideas.

The Escape Pod

About Creative at The Escape Pod:

Creatives at The Escape Pod are experts at challenging comfortable — concepting, presenting, and executing ideas that are timely, rooted in insights, and thoughtful in craft. We help brands move beyond the ‘sea of sameness’ in ownable and authentic ways. We design, write, and produce creative across every medium to break through in culture, escaping the status quo. If that sounds exciting to you, then we’d love to talk to you about this opportunity on our team.

Job Overview:

The Escape Pod is looking for a Junior Art Director who is passionate about ideas, and persuasive in selling their ideas to others. Someone who is eager to collaborate, ideate and build things that don’t exist yet.

What You’ll Do:

• Concept, develop and create engaging designs that drive client goals
• Design for and produce work for a range of online and offline mediums—OLV, TV, apps, websites, landing pages, emails, social media
• Prove understanding of your client’s brand visual voice when creating ideas and content
• Stay current on all existing, new, and emerging technologies that relate to digital marketing, mobile, social media, and cultural trends
• Package ideas in a clear, logical and persuasive manner
• Present work internally and to clients
• Own a project from conception through completion
• You will lead projects and also work as part of a team in large or small groups in a collaborative fashion
• You will be proactive in bringing ideas to the table that are above and beyond the ask
• Take direction from CDs and continue to learn
• Be a part of new business pitches

What You’ll Bring:

• Minimum of 1 years experience
• Portfolio of your work
• Mastery in most Adobe Creative Suite applications
• Strong communication skills
• Strong conceptual skills with the ability to create 360 campaigns
• Good client presentation skills and a knowledge of how the work addresses the client challenge
• A clear understanding of a creative brief and its role in the creative process
• A great eye for design and desire to take on new challenges, grow and learn every day
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a larger team in a fast-paced environment

About The Escape Pod:

At the Escape Pod, we don’t claim to do a million things just OK. We do four things brilliantly: Strategy, Creative, Production, and Partnership. We help clients escape from predictable to, well, not. We help clients escape from the crowded space to the white space. We help clients escape the old school notion of ‘bossy agencies’ to a world of empathetic partnership. We’re a 2-time winner of AdAge’s Small Agency of the Year Award and in 2022 were the the first agency ever to host the Small Agency Conference and Awards in our office.

Additional Information:

The Escape Pod is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on sex, gender identity, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disabilities or any other protected basis because we believe the best and brightest come from all walks of life. We aspire to foster a community in which diversity is valued in both our employees and our ideas.

The Escape Pod

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!

We are showing pictures to the director to choose HOUSELESS PEOPLE for Chicago Fire!

Searching for:

• MEN AND WOMEN,
• 20’s to 40’s
• all ethnicities to work as HOUSELESS PEOPLE on THURSDAY, April 13th on Chicago Fire.

This will require a Covid test and possible fitting on TUESDAY, April 11th.

This will be an OUTSIDE SCENE.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert

Searching for:

• MALES AND FEMALES to play PEDESTRIANS AND HOMELESS PEOPLE,
• all ethnicities,
• 20’s to 70’s, to work an OUTDOOR scene on Chicago Fire.
• This is filming on Tuesday, April 11th, and you will need to Covid test (takes about one hour) on Monday, April 10th.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert

Searching for:

• MALES AND FEMALES, with LOW END CARS,
• 15 YEARS OR OLDER.
• No red, no white, no black cars.

This is filming on Monday, April 10th, and you will need to Covid test (takes about one hour) on Thursday, April 6th.

CASTING CALL DETAILS:

PROJECT: COMMERCIAL SPECS 

DATE: MON., 4/10 

SPEAKING ROLES: SEE BELOW

RATE: Non-paid, but WILL receive gas reimbursement (up to $30) and food will be provided. You will get a copy of the finished spot for your reel. 

LOCATION: NORTHWEST INDIANA – This is about an hour and 15 mins outside of Chicago. Must be willing to travel to this location. 

1) GOLFER ROLE:

• MALE,
• 20-30s,
• ANY ETHNICITY.
• Must have a good-looking golf swing, but does not have to be good at golf. Looking for a convincing swing only. 

2) BOYFRIEND ROLE:

• MALE,
• 20-30s,
• ANY ETHNICITY

3) FIANCE ROLE:

• FEMALE,
• 20s-30s,
• ANY ETHNICITY. 

4) UNHINGED/BOSSY/FAB FRIEND ROLE:

• 30s,
• ANY GENDER,
• ANY ETHNICITY. 

Location: Hybrid (Based in Alsip IL, Scarborough Canada or Monterrey Mexico)

Summary: Provides Strategic Marketing leadership to communicate the Griffith Foods Brand across North America to enable awareness, positioning, and engagement, with internal and external audiences, about our Purpose, our Aspirations, our Products, and our People. Be a role model to the Company Culture by living the Values and strive to explore, create, and develop value propositions to support our customers’ success in the marketplace.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develops an understanding of Griffith Foods Purpose Driven Strategy, our Long-Range Plan, its goals, and planned initiatives.
• Develops an editorial calendar with strategic content and directs creative execution to provide a consistent, targeted, and impactful messages across the Organization and selected external target audiences.
• Builds and maintains solid partnerships with assigned internal clients (Marketing, HR, Sales, Culinary, R&D, and other) to better develop, coordinate, direct, and facilitate strategic communications designed to meet business goals.
• Designs campaigns to target specific audiences, placing an emphasis and discipline on campaign performance to help with recommendations for future programs.
• Researches and understands key business challenges, customer behavior, target audiences, competitive activity, and environmental factors that impacts programs within the business and assigned departments.
• Identifies and presents opportunities for consistency in messaging and customer experience across channels (from internal to external channels).
• Works with North America Leadership to take the pulse of overall business activity to identify cross-marketing opportunities.
• Co-Leads and contributes to the roadmap and development of our Digital Transformation
• Active participation in the Crisis Communication process, leading the development and deployment of critical messages, internally and externally.
• Stays informed of developments in the field of marketing and communications within the industry to foster ideas and innovation.
• Contributes ideas for new programs, researching and recommending innovative branding techniques.
• Directs in-house and external graphic designers, photographers, and other media-production specialists integral to the completion of marketing projects.
• Leads the development of digital resources to enable our internal teams to tell our story and drive engagement with our partners.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Communications, Journalism or Marketing with 5 years of professional experience in a Communications, Advertising or Strategic Marketing role.
• Demonstrated experience with all types of social media (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc.).
• Experience at a Food Company, ideally in Communications.
• Experience in Business-to-Business and clear understanding on how to create and deliver clear effective messaging.
• Strong presentation skills and versatile copywriting skills.
• Desire to take full ownership of assigned projects and can work independently.
• Strong and proven organization and communications skills.
• Ability to think creatively to solve complex problems.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to collaborate with customers, technical subject matter experts, executive leadership and creative partners.
• Genuine excitement about fueling innovation with a future-forward technical product and highly skilled team of industry experts.
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills in a multi-functional business environment.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and web content management systems experience.
• Travel 25%.

Griffith Foods

Location: Hybrid (Based in Alsip IL, Scarborough Canada or Monterrey Mexico)

Summary: To provide Strategic Marketing leadership and management to the Product Categories across North America to enable sustainable and profitable growth aligned with our Purpose Driven Strategy and Aspirations. Be a role model to the Company Culture by living the Values and strive to explore, create, and develop value propositions to ensure the success of our products in the marketplace.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Devises and executes long-term development strategies for product categories.
• Drives the full Portfolio approach across the region, ensuring that all Product Categories are represented and promoted in value propositions to our Customers and Prospects.
• In partnership with VP of Marketing, VP of R&D and Director of Innovation in North America, is responsible for development and scale of strategies to commercialize Innovative Technologies.
• Co-leads together with VP of Marketing, VP of R&D, VP of Sales, and Dir. of Innovation NA the commercialization of current Innovation Technologies applied to our Product Categories (Seasonings, Sauces & Dressings, Alternative Proteins, and Value-added Coatings).
• Works closely with NA VP of Marketing, NA Customer Segments Director, NA VP of R&D, NA VP of Business Development and NA Customer Segment Leaders to develop value propositions for Innovative Technologies.
• In partnership with NA Insights, VP Marketing NA and VP R&D NA identifies Consumers unmet needs in the marketplace to define the development of future Innovative Technologies to drive differentiation to selected product categories.
• In partnership with Finance, Sales and Marketing defines value pricing for our Product Categories.
• Analyzes selected product categories and defines initiatives to improve profitability and sales growth.
• Defines the positioning of a product category to maximize sales and profitability.
• Leads with Marketing the development of effective Value Propositions for our products.
• Provides the Commercial Teams (Sales, Marketing, R&D, Culinary) with the right tools and communication to drive the positioning of our products to our Customers and Prospects.
• Identifies unsuccessful products and define the right approach to improve profitability. Leads the process to define and execute exit strategies for products when needed.
• In collaboration with Marketing, R&D, Culinary and Insights launches the Annual Trends Program with the goal to generate business opportunities for at least $2MM annually.
• Partners with Supply Chain to identify and define key operational elements to consider as part of the pricing process in the category (MOQ and Other).
• Responsible for the budget development and revenue for Product Categories in partnership with Sales, Marketing, R&D and Finance.
• Direct responsibility to manage one Product Category across the Region and supervise two Category Managers.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Marketing or Business with 10 years of professional experience in a Category Management, Marketing or Business role.
• MBA degree preferred.
• Experience at a Food Company, ideally in Category Management, Marketing, Innovation, Product Development.
• Experience in Business-to-Business and clear understanding on how to create and deliver value propositions to Customers.
• Excellent business and financial acumen.
• Strong and proven organization and communications skills.
• Ability to think creatively to solve complex problems.
• Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills in a multi-functional business environment.
• Skills and experience in Project Management. Ideally experience in utilizing a Project Management software.
• Highly skilled in use of PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and other commonly used computer programs.
• Travel 25%.

Griffith Foods

Summary

The Product Launch Manager for Meitheal’s Critical Care & Anesthesia portfolio is a high profile, highly collaborative role at Meitheal Pharmaceuticals. You will lead and own the new product launch process. From developing successful launch strategies in partnership with executive leadership to tactical execution, this role is pivotal to Meitheal’s growth and success. This is a Chicago-based hybrid role, in the office 2 days per week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Owns the new product launch process for assigned portfolios to ensure launch and post-launch success by providing support to all Meitheal departments including:
• Leading global internal and external cross-functional product launch teams and facilitating the successful tactical execution of new product launches in the U.S. market
• Managing relationships with external partners and contractual obligations of related product programs.
• Manage the post-approval process, providing cross-functional support to successfully implement product enhancements.
• Drives cross-functional communication and collaboration, identifying obstacles impacting launch timelines and developing recommendations to overcome launch challenges
• Creates, implements, monitors and reports on the success of product launches, partnering with internal and external stakeholders
• Organizes, schedules, and facilitates cross-functional team meetings to exchange information and drives corporate launch and supply goals, identifies risks, contingency plans, and ensures launch forecast is being met.
• Actively managing and reporting project status, action plans and changes to launch timelines across the organization. Provides support and development of presentations to senior management and input for launch dates for forecasts and budget.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and driving cross-functional collaboration for successful implementation.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Competencies

• Project Management
• Cross-functional leadership
• Business Acumen
• Judgement
• Change Management
• Ethics
• Interpersonal

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Working knowledge of regulatory, quality and labeling processes and manufacturing operations.
• Ability to understand, translate and integrate multiple data sources into clear and impactful insights to drive decision making.
• High level of business acumen, analysis and judgement.
• Strategy development, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to build positive working relationships and influence people, both internally and externally.

Education and/or Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a business-related discipline with at least four (4) years of increasing responsibility and experience in generic pharmaceutical industry, with preference towards project management and operations.
• A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree (MBA/MS)
• Experience with global operating structures and project management

Travel

Up to 10% domestic and/or international travel.

Computer Skills

Extensive computer proficiency with desktop software in a Windows environment required: Microsoft Project; Word; Excel; PowerPoint required.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

AAP/EEO Statement

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled

Meitheal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.