Creative Buyer

Publicis Groupe ANZ; Troy (MI); Hybrid; USD 66,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid family care

Adoption and fertility support

Pet adoption assistance

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Publicis Commerce is seeking a Creative Buyer to manage stock imagery, fonts, licensing, and DAM operations for client work. The role supports the agency by negotiating with stock houses, ensuring rights clearance, and coordinating with Legal and leadership to align on favorable terms.

Based in a commutable distance to Detroit (Troy) or Chicago, you’ll work in a hybrid setting and help drive cost savings while upholding high standards for asset management and usage rights across projects.

Qualifications

• Proven Art Production, Rights Management, Vendor Management, Asset Management and Production Technology acumen.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to manage one or more projects simultaneously.
• Experience maintaining art resources such as stock houses, vendors, photographers and representatives.
• 3+ years of creative production experience at an advertising agency, in-house marketing department, magazine/editorial/publishing group, or production company.
• A high attention to detail, strong management skills, and the ability to manage multiple organization-wide deadlines.
• Must be extremely organized.
• Working knowledge of current legal trends; experience with securing and managing copyrights.
• Be open minded to opinions that might vary from yours.

Responsibilities

• Purchase stock images—both stills and footage—and fonts.
• Licensing Digital, Footage and still imagery for Clients and Creatives with approved stock vendors content providers.
• Must have a solid understanding of clearance and licensing issues associated with image content (stills and footage).
• Provide best practice recommendations for photo usage/licensing.
• Work with legal and business teams to secure usage rights, clear/lead vetting for new sites that have not been legally approved, including seeking DAM rights, assess risk, and clear work for distribution.
• Negotiate/own contracts with stock houses including digital asset management aspects.
• Partner with Legal and leadership to align on stock agreement that is in the best interest of the agency/client needs.
• Negotiate cost savings through reduced licensing fees with vendors and individual content providers while maintaining DAM license agreement.
• Vet and set up new stock and image vendors by working with legal to confirm appropriate terms and conditions.
• Maintain access to high-resolution stock downloads within the Creative department.
• Create and maintain a database of image content.
• Research and maintain a database of content sources and resource contacts.
• Review all artwork/meta data before it is released from the agency to ensure usage rights are known and documented.
• Purchase font licenses.
• Maintain and audit font server.
• Offer creative solutions for savings whenever possible.
• Partner with photography department on talent contracts, usage rights, tracking of shoots, and asset storage.
• Manage talent contracts, usage rights, tracking of shoots, and asset storage.
• Correct the contracts, work with the reps to get better prices and put together a wish list for future DAM operations.
• Hire/train buying staff, set up a DAM/with metadata asset tagging and tracking in partnership with Asset management. This task will require prior experience building and implementing a DAM.

Skills

Art Production

Rights Management

Vendor Management

Asset Management

Production Technology

Communication skills

Problem solving

Project management

Attention to detail

Organization

Job description

Company description

About Publicis Commerce: Informed by data, our passionate team strives to deliver Hero Moments for our clients’ brands in the final mile of the retail customer journey. We pride ourselves on being able to provide winning client solutions delivered across 7 core capability areas: Data & Consumer Insights; Shopper Marketing & Integrated RTM; Field Marketing; Events & Activations; Promotional, Risk, Reward & Loyalty and Retail POS Strategy.

Overview

We’re looking for a Creative Buyer. Candidates must reside within a commutable distance to our office in Detroit (Troy) or Chicago for a hybrid work schedule.

Primary Responsibilities

• Purchase stock images—both stills and footage—and fonts
• LicensingDigital, Footage and still imagery for Clients and Creatives with approved stock vendors content providers
• Must have a solid understanding of clearance and licensing issues associated with image content (stills and footage).
• Provide best practice recommendations for photo usage/licensing.
• Work with legal and business teams to secure usage rights, clear/lead vetting for new sites thathave not been legally approved, including seeking DAM rights, assess risk, and clear work for distribution.
• Negotiate/own contracts with stock houses including digital asset management aspects.
• Partner with Legal and leadership to align on stock agreement that is in the best interest of the agency/client needs.
• Negotiate cost savings through reduced licensing fees withvendors and individual content providers while maintaining DAM license agreement.
• Vet and set up new stock and image vendors by working with legal to confirm appropriate terms and conditions.
• Maintain access to high-resolution stock downloads within the Creative department.
• Create and maintain a database of image content.
• Research and maintain a database of content sources and resourcecontacts.
• Review all artwork/meta data before it is released from the agency to ensureusage rights are known and documented.
• Purchase font licenses.
• Maintain and audit font server.
• Offer creative solutions for savings whenever possible.
• Partner with photography department on talent contracts, usage rights, tracking of shoots, and asset storage.
• Manage talent contracts, usage rights, tracking of shoots, and assetstorage.
• Correct the contracts, work with the reps to get better prices and put together a wish list for futureDAM operations.
• Hire/train buying staff, set up a DAM/with metadata asset tagging and tracking in partnership with Asset management. This task will require prior experience building and implementing a DAM.

Skillsets Required

• Proven Art Production, Rights Management, Vendor Management, Asset Management and Production Technology acumen.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to manage one or more projects simultaneously.
• Experience maintaining art resources such as stock houses, vendors, photographers and representatives.
• 3+ years of creative production experience at an advertising agency, in-house marketing department, magazine/editorial/publishing group, or production company.
• A high attention to detail, strong management skills, and the ability to manage multiple organization-wide deadlines.
• Must be extremely organized.
• Working knowledge of current legal trends; experience with securing and managing copyrights.
• Be open minded to opinions that might vary from yours.

Additional Information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include:

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements
• ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

We also offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance. You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.

Publicis Commerce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $66,120.00 - USD $91,350.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third‑party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/20/2026.