Job Title
Design Manager, Midwest
Job Description Summary
At a local level, the Design Manager is responsible for planning, producing, and overseeing the creative strategy, implementation, and processes for all marketing deliverables coming out of the local market. Working in partnership with the market's marketing lead, this position leads the Graphic Design team to execute strategic vision and to provide timely, consistent, and high-quality design work for all areas of the business.
We are looking for a creative, organized, and highly motivated team member who brings strong design aesthetic, experienced leadership, and enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative, sales environment.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Oversee the local market Graphic Design team, both as a people manager and as a creative lead - working with the team to grow their design skillset, accomplish their goals, approach design to align with the strategic goals of our brokerage teams and clients, and to create best-in-class marketing deliverables.
- Design and format custom marketing materials to support all business development and strategic marketing efforts led by the local marketing team.
- Ability to help translate complex ideas and data into simple to read, easy to understand design materials.
- Serve as a liaison to 3rd party design vendors and print vendors as needed.
- Review creative output from Graphic Design team to ensure the work communicates critical messages and key value propositions to achieve business objectives and elevate Cushman & Wakefield's brand.
- Manage internal workflow and prioritize total workload to ensure workload level matches allocated creative resources.
- Actively communicate with the Marketing team around the priority, progress, deadlines, and any outstanding questions.
- Provide training and mentorship to the Graphic Design team.
- Provide best practices, stay abreast of design trends, and encourage creativity on the Graphic Design team.
- Demonstrate a high level of creative development and production skill.
- Monitor and enforce corporate design standards on local marketing materials.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree.
- 4-7+ years of senior-level design experience.
- Previous in-house corporate design experience is highly preferred.
- Previous design experience within the Commercial Real Estate sector is preferred.
- Experience leading and managing a team - must be an effective, results-oriented communicator and leader with a focus on team development.
- Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator is required.
- Familiarity with a project management tool is highly preferred.
- Strong capability to work efficiently and independently to maintain high quality in a high-volume department.
- Ability to stay current with technological advances of design, specific to industry standards and best practices and to share and present on that knowledge with the larger marketing organization.
- Must possess business acumen and knowledge of project management concepts, practices, and procedures.
- Strong time management, organizational, and prioritization skills - must have the ability to balance multiple priorities and projects simultaneously and be able to communicate clearly if bandwidth challenges arise.
- Self-motivated approach with the ability to take initiative but works well in a group environment.