Advertising Producer (14-Month Contract)

Apple Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company, Apple Inc., is seeking an Advertising Producer for a 14-month contract in Toronto. This role involves managing advertising initiatives, ensuring effective local adaptations, and collaborating with internal teams and external agencies. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in advertising, particularly with global brands, and possess strong communication and project management skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Advertising or Creative Agency experience.
• Experience with global brands and launching creative.
• Experience on digital/social campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative development and production for advertising initiatives.
• Manage localization processes for Canadian markets.
• Evaluate advertising recommendations with internal and agency teams.

Skills

Advertising experience

Localization knowledge

Creative campaign production

Communication skills

Job description

Advertising Producer (14-Month Contract)

Marketing Communications (Marcom) is the creatively-led global team that oversees Apple’s consumer facing marketing. We ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications across all medias and platforms. Every day, hundreds of millions of Apple customers around the world interact with our products. We drive the strategy and creative work that provide both new and existing customers with simple, engaging and inspiring marketing experiences.The Advertising (Ad) Team oversees Appleʼs advertising activities in Canada, and is the bridge between Marcom and Appleʼs advertising agency, Media Arts Lab (MAL). We partner with many internal groups, including Finance, Legal, Product Marketing, Partner Communications, apple.com, Retail and Business and Education. We also maintain positive relationships with our Apple and MAL international offices. Developing and fostering productive partnerships is an essential requirement of every member of our team.In the Ad Producer 14-Month Contract role, you will be responsible for leading the creative development and production process, ensuring accuracy and internal communication for all advertising initiatives. The breadth of responsibility will range from the localization and adaptation of global advertising deliverables for Canadian English and Canadian French languages, to the full-scale bespoke Canadian original productions.

Description

Handle the implementation of all advertising creative, working with our media and creative agency’s account team and Apple internal teams (Brand, Interactive, Channel, Product Marketing, PR, Legal and Business Affairs) to evaluate recommendations for relevance and effectiveness within the market.You will lead the day-to-day relationship with our advertising agency.Ability to manage an Advertising production from creative development to production to post-production to delivery—with production typically taking place within a three-month timeframe.Coordinate creative validation with the local Creative team.Ensure that work originated by the Worldwide Advertising team can be effectively localized; monitor issues such as cultural relevance and market priorities, legal constraints.Ensure effective localization process while maintaining Apple’s brand positioning; keeping a consistent look and feel from one media form to another, and from one campaign to another.Ensure that all localized work created by the agency meets Apple’s standards for creative excellence, technical accuracy, integrity of claims and protection our intellectual property rights, trademarks and legal lines.Working in partnership with the Media manager to review media plans and evaluate the advertising assets required to support the media recommendations based on regional media understanding.Find and present opportunities of how advertising campaigns can be amplified based on market priorities, country related cultural and media opportunities.Organize and lead weekly agency advertising status meetings.Prepare “campaign launch” announcements and presentations to share advertising activity with the broader internal teams.Follow industry trends and competitive activity.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of Advertising or Creative Agency and/or Brand experience
• Experience producing fully integrated campaigns
• Experience working on global brands with a focus on localization knowledge and launching bespoke creative in international markets
• Experience working on multi-faceted digital/social campaigns

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to drive workflows, creative shares and schedules across multiple teams
• Collaborates well with both internal and external partners
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to get results throughout projects
• Cut through ambiguity to find the right path forward despite uncertainty or challenges
• Approach projects with a local Canadian perspective to ensure creative resonates in international markets
• Extremely detail oriented with extraordinary follow-through skills
• Approach problems flexibly and with a willingness to adapt in order to arrive at the best solution
• Resourceful and proactive in finding solutions
• See around corners to ensure awareness of bigger problems and opportunities ahead
• French Comprehension: ability to understand and comprehend written and spoken French is beneficial in the review and approval of French Canadian assets