Rheem Manufacturing Hiring for Creative Brand Specialist Job at Sandy Springs, Fulton, GA Full Time

Creative Brand Specialist -* (*22000400)
Description
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*A Career at Rheem: Where Comfort Is Your Calling*
At Rheem, we are dedicated to bringing comfort to people’s lives. As a leading global manufacturer of heating, cooling, and water heating equipment, we are innovating all-new ways to deliver just the right temperature while saving energy, and water and supporting a more sustainable future. It is an exciting challenge that requires a team of talented, passionate people with a diverse set of skills. Rheem depends on people to power our innovations from engineers to accountants and sales professionals to support experts. Join Rheem and help shape the future of products that impact lives—every day.
SUMMARY:
As Rheem’s Creative Brand Specialist, you will work with internal team members and agency partners to help manage and support creative development from inception to delivery. This includes brand, print, digital, visual brand language, brand licensing, and our sustainability initiative, all high visibility projects. Our Enterprise Brand Marketing department is the brand engine of our business. Every day, we’re supporting our divisions and businesses across the globe to ensure brand relevance and to craft strategic and successful creative solutions. This role will report to the Creative Brand Manager. Do you thrive in a creative environment, enjoy visual storytelling, and work with brands? Are you intrigued with connecting the dots between customer behavior, brand marketing activities, and business growth? Then apply today to support our ever-growing Rheem family of brands.
WHAT YOU¹LL DO:

• Support the development and implementation/revisions of brand guidelines across the Rheem family of brands portfolio (40+ to date).
• Coordinate and help lead brand training activities for associates and external marketing partners.
• Support the brand and creative activities for Rheem’s global sustainability initiative and licensing program.
• Initiate creative briefs, obtain estimates from creative agency partners, and establish/maintain project timelines based on team input and approval.
• Help manage internal team brand reviews, timelines, and budget for projects, programs, and brand campaigns, liaising with external vendors and internal stakeholders, including global marketing managers, brand team, etc.
• Provide visual and strategic feedback to assure deliverables are graphically appealing and visually on-brand.
• Serve as brand liaison with Rheem’s legal department regarding Enterprise brand and sustainability trademark activities.
• Work collaboratively with global cross-functional departments to help implement creative and brand requests (i.e., product naming, product badging, logos and artwork requests, print, and digital ads, collateral, and signage).
• Collaborate with freelance designers and creative agencies on coordinating, managing, and uploading new creative assets for global access in online repositories.
• Help develop presentations to support the brand marketing team, manage the global image library and provide guidance on brand asset requests.
• Manage miscellaneous brand marketing projects and special requests as assigned.

Qualifications
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*WHAT YOU NEED: *

• Bachelor’s degree in brand, design/fine arts, marketing, visual communications, or related field with a demonstrated aptitude for creative development and brand management.

• Five (5)+ years working in a large marketing organization, creative/brand agency, or hands-on brand marketing experience, with a focus on creative development, strategic brand management, or a related subject matter.
• A project portfolio of brand-focused work that articulates strategic creative development capabilities, showcases print + digital execution excellence and demonstrates an artistic eye and mastery of design elements, such as color, visual hierarchy, and composition.
• Experience working with creative professionals, including copywriters and graphic designers, guiding projects from design brief to final implementation to achieve strategic project goals.

• Strong critical thinking skills, using logic and reasoning to identify solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems that align with the practical needs of the business
• Proven experience with traditional print and digital production methodologies along with knowledge of file types.
• Ability to effectively communicate to key internal stakeholders, both up and down the organization.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a proven ability to build cross-functional relationships, and thrive in a collaborative and team-oriented environment to accomplish objectives.
• Proficiency in creative thinking, quality assurance (QA), grammatical correctness, and communication of complex ideas in simple terms.
• Highly organized, with superior attention to detail and initiative to actively pursue high levels of performance.
• Adjusts well to changing circumstances, working well in a busy, deadline-driven dynamic environment.

• Proven project management skills and the ability to successfully manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously.
• Mastery of Microsoft Office software suite, particularly with PowerPoint, and solid working experience with Adobe Creative Suite plus other digital platforms.

HOW TO STAND OUT:
Provide a project portfolio of professional creative/brand work demonstrating success in meeting strategic business objectives.

• Demonstrate the ability to manage outside vendors, maximize resources and proactively find solutions to business problems.
• Showcase that you are a collaborative, fact-driven, agile-thinker, that can adjust your priorities to support the needs of our business.

Position Title: Creative Brand Specialist
Department: Enterprise Brand Marketing
Reports To: Creative Brand Manager
Work Location: Onsite/Remote hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
Travel: May be required including possible international travel. Passport Required.
Rheem is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies:
Please note that Rheem and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation for any referral compensation or recruiter fee.
In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Rheem and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, will become the property of Rheem.
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Primary Location: US-RC_US_GA-Atlanta
Work Locations: Rheem Atlanta Office (GA) 1100 Abernathy Road NE Suite 1700 Atlanta 30328
Job: Marketing & Product Management
Organization: Enterprise
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Employee Status: Regular
Job Type: Standard
Job Level: Non-Management
Travel: No
Job Posting: May 6, 2022, 8:18:15 AM

Job Type: Full-time

Education:

• Bachelor’s (Preferred)

Experience:

• Branding, Video Content, Brand Marketing: 6 years (Required)
• Branding, print branding, digital Branding, visual brand language, brand licensing and our sustainability initiative: 6 years (Required)