Senior Creative Specialist

The Senior Creative Specialist leads the development and delivery of creative content supporting Contec and its business units. This position translates business and marketing objectives into effective visual solutions, manages creative projects from concept through final production, and ensures alignment with brand standards. The position collaborates with Marketing teammates, internal stakeholders, and external creative partners to deliver high-quality work across print and digital channels.

• 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. 

Successful performance in this position requires the following competencies:

Action Oriented: Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.

Collaboration: Builds partnerships and works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.

Communicates and Listens Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. Listens to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.

Customer Focus: Builds strong customer relationships and is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers.

Functional/Technical Skills: Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment. Highly organized and detail oriented.

Manages Ambiguity: Operates effectively, even when things are not certain, or the path forward is not clear; effectively copes with change and shifts gears comfortably.

Resourcefulness: Applies knowledge of internal structures, processes, and culture to deploy resources effectively and efficiently.

Time Management: Plans and exercises conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity.

Supports Core Values: Able to demonstrate support and adherence to Contec’s core values: respect for others, doing “whatever it takes” within Contec’s core values, vision and strategic direction, exhibiting integrity, having a tolerance for risk, understanding there is life outside of work, enjoying the ride.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

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.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to communicate and convey information. The associate is often required to be in a stationary position, move, or traverse; prepare, inspect, observe, or detect physical and visual characteristics of products and processes; position objects and items.  The associate must occasionally move or transport up to twenty-five (25) pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work is generally performed in an office setting, which may include an open office environment, with quiet to moderate noise levels. The associate may occasionally work in manufacturing areas with moderate noise levels and exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions, extreme cold or heat, and vibration.

This position requires occasional travel between local office locations and overnight travel to trade shows and industry events, with total travel expected to be less than ten percent (10%) annually.