Senior Creative Specialist

Responsibilities

• Owns and manages the day-to-day and long-term creative needs of Contec and its business units, including collateral, presentations, digital ads, packaging, social media, tradeshow assets, and other creative content.
• Leads and executes creative projects from concept through final delivery, both independently and as part of a team, translating business and marketing objectives into effective creative solutions.
• Manages competing priorities and schedules across multiple short- and long-term creative projects, ensuring work is delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Ensures creative content aligns with Contec’s brand vision, visual identity, and standards.
• Manages brand assets, templates, and creative resources, ensuring they are organized, current, and accessible.
• Oversees and executes technical design and production, including file preparation, print and digital specifications, and quality control.
• Partners with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization to understand needs, communicate project status, and provide creative guidance and recommendations. Incorporates feedback received to strengthen creative deliverables.
• Provides creative direction, ideas, and constructive feedback to team members and external creative partners to strengthen creative execution and maintain brand consistency.
• Participates and works within ISO 9001 quality standards guidelines in accordance with Contec’s quality goals.
• Others may be assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, visual communications, or a related field and five (5) or more years of relevant creative design experience in a corporate marketing department, agency, or similar setting; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word) and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop) is required.
• Proficiency with additional creative applications for editing and/or graphics, such as After Effects, Lightroom, and Media Encoder, is strongly preferred.
• A portfolio demonstrating creative concept development, brand consistency, and execution across print and digital channels is required, along with a clear explanation of the individual’s contributions.
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, understand and interpret general information and vendor specifications. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to write product descriptions would be beneficial. Ability to effectively present information, create reports and spreadsheets, and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: N/A.