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Job Summary
The Manager, Creative is responsible for managing the creative team in strategic campaign development and leveraging creative expertise to win new business and grow accounts. This role involves developing innovative creative strategies and collaborating with our vendor partners to ensure successful video and multi-screen execution. It is a working manager (player / coach) position in a fast paced, sales- driven organization. The ideal candidate demonstrates a high level of business acumen, sound judgment, emotional intelligence, and leadership skills. They must also be confident in communication and presentations to internal and external clients.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
Represent Major Accounts: Responsible for representing the creative team for company's largest accounts, agencies, and business partners.
Foster Collaboration:Works closely with senior creative leadership, sales leadership, and partner departments to strategize business growth and opportunities.
Lead Creative Campaigns: Lead the creative team in developing effective, innovative, and award-winning multi-platform campaigns while understanding the environment and needs of a sales organization.
Provide Leadership: Provide motivation, coaching, direction, accountability, and steady leadership in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
Storytelling: Confident in storytelling, engaging in client-facing and partner presentations, and leading team in achieving revenue goals by selling the value of creative.
Execute Strategies: Execute strategies and financial goals established by senior leadership.
Maintain Professional Communication: Maintain a positive attitude with professional communication.
Ensure Compliance: Accountable for managing and compliance with all legal requirements and contracts.
Advise and Upskill Team: Advise and upskill team members in all phases of the creative process: client discovery, creative strategy, budgeting, and execution.
Oversee Recruitment: Participate in the recruitment and hiring of internal staff.
Ensure Tool Consistency: Ensure consistent and proper team use of internal CRM, project management tools, and approved AI capabilities.
Resolve Issues: Intellectually anticipate potential issues and actively resolve problems that may arise.
Stay Updated on Trends: Stay abreast of creative trends and implement them with the team as appropriate.
Preferred Qualifications:
3+ years of experience in a creative role, with a portfolio demonstrating expertise in brand strategy, marketing messaging, and creative direction on local and regional levels.
Experience managing and mentoring high-performing creative teams
Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with experience translating business objectives into impactful creative strategies.
Ability to balance creative excellence with business goals and objectives, ensuring creative campaign performance while consistently meeting business objectives.
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience in an advertising setting
Employees at all levels are expected to:
Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
Drive results and growth.
Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.
Disclaimer:
This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.
Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.
Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's Degree
While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.