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Creative Services Manager

Post Date
6/21/2016

Expiration Date
8/19/2016

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About J. Jill

J. Jill is a unique women’s specialty clothing retailer. With a passionately devoted customer base, a talented and dedicated in-house design team continually creating new collections, and a rapidly expanding multichannel business, it’s an exciting place to be.

What began in 1959 as one store in the Berkshires is now a national retailer of apparel, accessories and footwear. J. Jill uncomplicates a women’s life by giving her a stylish, easy, ready-for-anything wardrobe that lets her dress confidently and focus on enjoying her life. We offer friendly, guiding service wherever she shops: our stores, our website or our catalogs.

Located minutes from Boston in Quincy, Massachusetts, we have over 225 stores and a state-of-the-art contact and distribution center in Tilton, New Hampshire.

JOB SUMMARY:

Creative Services Manager serves as a logistical leader and liaison between the Creative Department and internal clients. This position reports directly to the Director of Creative Services Operations and is in charge of managing the account executive/project management team. The team manages all active in-house jobs providing an accurate and constant gauge of the Creative Department’s capacity and efficiency. Creative is responsible for approx 3,000 projects per year across our catalog, retail and web channels. Ultimately, this role contributes to the company’s success by ensuring the maximum efficiency and productivity of the Creative Department.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Manage overall project workflow to ensure all creative deliverables are completed efficiently and on-time with the most up-to-date information.
• Propose process improvements - seek out efficiencies and improvements in day-to-day workflow.
• Plan and manage the implementation of process improvements and new systems associated with the workflow.
• Work closely with creative to best allocate time, staff and resources for incoming projects.
• Identify schedule and capacity risk and pre plan with the with the teams to manage that risk.
• Manage projects for specific business segments as they flow through the creative department from initial request to final delivery.
• Obtain client needs for deliverables and facilitate concise communication of the requirements to the teams executing the project.
• Facilitate the review and approval of creative deliverables.
• Monitor any cross channel changes that may effect deliverables.
• Ownership of weekly status meeting with the creative and copy teams to review the status of current projects and weekly priorities.
• Oversight of shared calendar for all cross channel creative review meetings.
• Interaction with outside vendors in relation to ongoing projects and systems.
• Assist with pricing comparisons and budget parameters for new creative initiatives.
• Regularly oversee other employees as a project manager.



Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Communications, Business or Marketing.
• 8+ years of project management experience in an in-house creative or agency setting.
• Experience managing multiple direct reports
• Experience with retail projects is preferred.


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