Creative Manager

Creative Manager

We are looking for a Creative manager to bring our brand strategy to life and empower a talented in-house design team. In this role, you will balance high-level creative vision with hands-on graphic design, guiding your team while collaborating with cross-functional partners and external agencies. If you genuinely enjoy fostering growth in designers and thrive in a fast-paced environment where your creative concepts can shine across print, digital, and in-store platforms, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Job Description

What You'll Do:

• Team Management: Mentor, manage, and inspire a talented team of in-house designers, fostering a collaborative environment, guiding their professional growth, and overseeing daily creative workflows.
• Direct Brand Strategy: Lead the creative vision for the Festival Foods brand in tandem with agency partners, ensuring strong brand consistency across a high volume of deliverables.
• Optimize Workflows: Bring ideas and leverage project management tools to improve team efficiency, helping your team stay current with the latest design tools, typography, and industry trends.
• Collaborate & Conceptualize: Work cross-functionally within the marketing department to conceptualize and execute innovative creative campaigns that translate seamlessly across all platforms.
• Hands-on Design: Balance your leadership responsibilities by jumping in to help with day-to-day graphic design work, managing the strategic creative process for weekly price promotions across print, digital, and in-store mediums.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Bring:

• Experience: 7+ years of graphic design experience within an in-house creative department or design firm.
• Leadership & Team Direction: Demonstrated experience leading or guiding designers, cultivating a positive, collaborative team dynamic while helping team members grow their creative skills.
• Technology Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign, along with strong skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Hands-on experience with a creative project management tool is also required.
• Strategic & Conceptual Thinking: Ability to take complex design projects from start to finish with minimal supervision, consistently delivering on time and within budget.
• Communication: Excellent interpersonal skills and a good listener; able to communicate effectively in a fast-paced environment and build a positive, collaborative culture.
• Attention to Detail: High accuracy, reliability, and strong organizational skills to manage tight deadlines and high volumes of design projects without compromising brand quality.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment described below are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Spend 90% sitting/standing in place for extended periods of time.

Work Schedule:

The Creative Manager is a full-time position.

Benefits Overview

Why You'll Love It Here:

• Associate Discount: Enjoy an industry-leading 15% off your grocery purchases for you and your immediate household!
• Weekly Pay & Premium Pay: Hourly associates are paid weekly, providing more frequent access to their funds. Part-time store associates are paid a $1 premium per hour on Sundays and select holidays. Hourly full-time store associates receive time and a half on Sundays and select holidays.
• Two-Week Advanced Scheduling: Better Planning. Better Balance. We provide our associates with their schedules two weeks in advance, offering greater predictability & flexibility.
• Vision & Dental Insurance: Part-time and full-time associates are eligible for vision insurance and two dental coverage options that are designed to fit your needs.
• Support: Our associates receive support for their total well-being; including 3 weeks of paid parental leave, a fitness reimbursement program offering savings off of fitness membership fees; our EAP (Employee Assistance Program) and LEAPCare Care Coaches, which provide associates confidential care related to hospital visitation, conflict resolution, stress management, marriage or divorce, family issues and depression or anxiety.
• Save for Your Future: Offering a 401(k), we're proud to support our associates in planning for retirement. The 401(k) plan empowers associates to save a portion of their paychecks for retirement. Festival Foods has an annual discretionary match to help our associates reach their savings goals.

Additional

Festival Foods will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed recruitment Master Service Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Festival Foods shall reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Festival Foods.

Address

1724 Lawrence Drive

City

De Pere

State

WI

Postal Code

54115