Marketing Production Manager

Overview

Arteriors is an award-winning global home furnishings company based in Dallas, Texas, with showrooms and retailers around the world.  We are looking for an experienced Marketing Production Manager to manage the scaling and producing of our go-to-market process. You will collaborate with internal partners, and external agencies, vendors and freelancers ensuring our campaign efforts are budgeted, tracked, coordinated, and mapped to expectation and delivery. This position is ideal for someone who has a keen eye for how to create best-in-class Marketing, all while keeping to timelines and budget.

The Marketing Production Manager acts as a central hub for prompting, collecting, and disseminating information between the Marketing team and other departments. The Marketing Production Manager maintains a master project calendar for the purpose of tracking and prioritizing work requests and keeping the Marketing team and cross-functional partners aware of schedule, to ensure that deadlines are met. The position requires strong organizational skills; a strong familiarity with current media promotion, marketing collateral, print production and advertising processes; enthusiasm for forging relationships and maintaining open communication with multiple groups; and demands strong diplomacy and collaboration skills to ensure healthy client relationships. This position will report directly to the VP, Marketing. We are seeking a candidate with that rare mix of creative ideation, luxury aesthetic, and seasoned project management skills, along with a high level of accountability and drive to achieve tangible results.

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Key Responsibilities

• Act as ''front door'' for the Marketing team, serving as the main recipient of go-to-market and major work requests from other departments (''Clients'') and collaborating with team leadership to evaluate feasibility of new requests considering existing priorities.
• Works with Clients to gather information necessary to open a project then assigns job number, maintains job log and enters the project in Basecamp.
• Serve as a liaison between Marketing team and other departments, with responsibilities including:
  • Initiating regular communication and meetings with key Clients to understand and plan for upcoming projects.
  • Collecting and aggregating information from all parties involved to create and maintain master production schedule.
  • Maintaining master list of projected and actual deliverables, requirements, budgets, etc.
  • Reviewing schedule regularly to identify possible synergies or timing conflicts.
  • Monitoring projects and communicating information (including status updates, changes, and delays) to team and Clients proactively or by request.
  • Retroactively report completed departmental deliverables and activities.
  • Collaborate with team to develop and maintain systems, tools and processes to help streamline workflow; train new team members as needed.
• Assists the team with the overall marketing budget creation and monthly financial reviews.
• Coordinates with the creative development team to confirm the integrity of the design and project quality.
• Oversees the competitive bid and negotiation process with vendors and suppliers that perform print jobs for business cards, direct mail, signage/showroom graphics, product tags, swatch cards, sales collateral, catalog, and other printed materials and merchandise including swag.
• Manages the fulfillment process and monitors inventory levels of all marketing collateral and swag.
• Working with Creative Director/VP Marketing, approves print production priorities and schedules, print specifications and budgets.
• Advises Clients on printing projects and recommends cost effective options.

Job Requirements

• Minimum 5 years proven experience in marketing, project management, print production and/or traffic management in an ad agency or internal marketing department.
• BA in Marketing or Business required.
• Very strong project management skills required.
• Demonstrable experience in strategic planning, marketing expense budgeting, print production, expense control and branding is required.
• Demonstrable examples of inventiveness/marketing tactic ideation are required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
• Ability to self-start, operate under pressure, and multi-task required.
• Has strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Effective understanding of latest technologies and identify how to apply them in marketing.
• Self-motivated, confident, energetic, and creative.
• Proactively establish and maintain effective team relationships with all support departments.
• Experience with Luxury branding preferred.
• PC and Mac competent with advanced knowledge of Basecamp, Monday.com (a plus), Microsoft Office, especially Excel, PPT and proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator and InDesign.

What's in it for you:

• 401k, Medical, dental and vision insurance available the first day of the month after hire date
• Open paid time off program
• 9 paid holidays with early release before holidays
• Paid Family Leave program
• Complimentary life insurance for employees and dependents
• Annual bonus potential