Group Art Supervisor

HASUS Harrison & Star, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 119,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Group in New York, NY is seeking a Group Art Supervisor to lead the art direction across campaigns, manage a team, and ensure brand consistency with high-quality visuals.

You will collaborate with account teams and copywriters, supervise vendors, stay current with design trends, and oversee production from concept to final art; requires 6–8 years in advertising and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.

Qualifications

• College degree
• 6-8 years of art direction experience in advertising
• 1-2 years of supervisory experience
• Proficiency with Apple hardware and Adobe CS2 tools (QuarkXPress, Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Acrobat)
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Salary range $118,500 – $153,000 per year (in-office)

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership to motivate the team and maintain morale
• Manage outside vendors and production partners for cost and quality
• Keep Creative Directors briefed on projects in a timely manner
• Develop client knowledge and brand understanding across accounts
• Act as gatekeeper to ensure high-quality final products and brand consistency
• Collaborate with copywriters to meet client objectives
• Present concepts clearly to team and clients
• Maintain time sheets and department scheduling

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Brand Stewardship

Client Collaboration

Vendor Management

Creative Direction

Communication Skills

Education

College degree

Tools

QuarkXPress

Photoshop CS2

Illustrator CS2

Acrobat

Entourage

Job description

Group Art Supervisor

Location: Wildtype - New York, NY

Department/Discipline: Art

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

Primary Job Responsibilities

General Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high
• Proactively seek opportunities for improvements in the department and offer executable solutions
• Keep Creative Director(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner
• Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Client’s business, both the brand itself and people involved (i.e. internal client structure, individual responsibilities, and interaction between groups/individuals with respect to their impact on client jobs)
• Manage outside vendor/resources effectively from both cost and creative standpoints, including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors for premiums and printing
• Keep abreast of current advertising, design, and other visual communications
• Continuously explore cutting-edge, current, and unique design styles and imagery
• Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print production process
• Contribute to new business efforts both creatively and as a reliable steward of the work

Brand Champion

• Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed
• Provide comprehensive design overview and brand consistency throughout each project and for each assigned account as a whole
• Consistently provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives
• Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Client’s business.
• Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives
• Attend photo-shoots; provide necessary on-the-spot feedback to vendors to effectively accomplish agency and client goals
• Act as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers
• Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects
• Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary

Collaboration

• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with Client/Agency Creative/Account teams
• Help create a collaborative work environment between all departments and demonstrate ability to handle conflicts in a positive, professional and productive manner
• Work with account service from beginning of project until the end to make sure all projects meet budgetary guidelines
• Maintain positive relationships with and utilize the internal business group departments (electronic studio, editorial, traffic, imaging and production) appropriately

Additional Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively and professionally both internally and externally
• Demonstrate good problem-solving and interpersonal skills
• Remain calm despite high pressure situations.
• Project a professional attitude and foster a positive team atmosphere demonstrating respect for peers and supervisors and establish credibility both internally and externally
• Assist other members of department/team as needed when workload allows
• Perform other duties as assigned by manager

Management Responsibilities

• Demonstrate the ability to manage time and prioritize all jobs effectively, as well as oversee junior members of the art brand team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments and approving work
• Monitor overall workload to effect efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized
• Help supervisor manage and resolve staff issues including performance, personal presentation and internal interactions
• Recommend adjustments/additions to the roles and procedures of the department to achieve continuous improvement and efficiency across all accounts and/or specific accounts
• Help interview, train and orient new team members to the agency, department, and account(s) at the direction of supervisor
• Mentors reports by providing constructive, ongoing feedback to them as well as completing annual performance reviews
• Provide ongoing guidance to all team members and be available to them as a resource for account/agency/departmental policies, procedures, etc
• Keep supervisor or department head appraised of any workload challenges/concerns on assigned team accounts that may necessitate hiring freelancers or moving creative’s around to better utilize their time
• Oversee team’s time off schedules, time reporting, etc. to ensure appropriate coverage at all times for accounts.
• Maintain accurate time sheets for self and team.
• Monitor, review and approve direct report’s time sheets in terms of hours worked on specific jobs

Qualifications

• College degree
• 6-8 years of art design/direction experience, preferably in advertising
• 1-2 years of supervisory experience
• Proficiency with Apple hardware and the following programs - Quark Express, Adobe Photo Shop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Entourage Advertising or design portfolio
• Excellent oral communication and presentation skills
• Excellent written communication and presentation skill
• $118,500 - $153,000

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