Mgr, Promotional Creative

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• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

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The Visual & Promotional Creative Manager is responsible for changing the course of Meijer's customer behavior through breakthrough ideas and empowering a team to effectively build them into an effective visual merchandising and promotional creative experience, driving traffic and purchase intention among our customers for low prices and events, seasonal destinations, local and DEI experiences, among others.

This role requires a quick-thinking strategic and creative mindset that is customer obsessed continually demonstrates learning from and influencing partners across the organization to move challenges, insights and opportunities into action through the most effective creative and visual merchandising strategies, art direction and experience for our customers across all forms of media.

This role owns all in-store visual merchandising, signage, and in-store creative/messaging, in addition to local, DEI and value-oriented program and holds close connection points to the Creative Manager, Campaigns and merchandising presentation teams in bringing these to life.

This role is responsible for overseeing and inspiring a team to produce outstanding creative development over the entire customer experience, across the Meijer brand portfolio and through fully integrated creative experiences.

This role should be a visionary for our brand and customer communication, constantly seeking better ways to create connection, build experiences and action with our customers. This requires the ambition to innovate and courage to share new ideas that influence partners to act.

The position a leader of leaders - grows creative and talent development across an Associate Creative Manager, Designer 3, Designer
2. This role also collaborates closely within marketing - campaigns planning, campaigns creative, media, space planning/merchandising presentation, merchandising, operations, and agency partners to bring ideas to life.

The candidate should be versed in moving at the pace of retail while navigating a complex organization to bring simple, effective ideas to life. A critical function of this role fostering a culture of a high solutions-orientation to produce creative on short timelines. Requires presenting and influencing all audiences.

• Accountable for the bringing creative vision to life across our Meijer brand portfolio, through an onsite creative team, marketing partnerships and external agencies. Ideas and creative development are expected to influence all aspects of in-store communication, visual merchandising, print and promotional/value-oriented messaging, resulting in metrics that achieve brand/business objectives and reach financial targets.
• Builds and fosters a highly positive and productive team culture at a fast pace for the development of the best quality of creative ideas. Continually inspires and motivates team by connection to business purpose, customer insights, strategy, and the results of the biggest, best brand potential.
• Leader of leaders, leads and develops a team of Designer 2, Designer 3, across a highly diverse scope of in-store, visual merchandising and promotional assignments in support of every business and service area for Meijer.
• Champion of ideas and brand-building, applies brand identity and discipline for our brand and business areas. Identifies strategic opportunities of how we bring them to life, with much focus to the in-store environment. This includes continual innovation, influence, and partnership across the organization to improve our customer experience through outstanding creative, visual merchandising, merchandising, signage and fixturing solutions.
• Expert in creative problem solving…