Sr. Graphic Designer​/Marketing Associate

Full Time Regular Chattanooga, TN, US

2 days ago Requisition

All jobs at Southern Champion Tray (SCT) require Team members to act in accordance with the shared Core Values and Operating principles of the company as they perform specific job functions. These include:

• Trustworthy – We strive for our actions to match our words in all our relationships.
• Servant – Hearted – We enable and empower our team to serve the needs of customers, Team members, suppliers, and the community.
• Relational – We aim to build healthy relationships while fostering an environment that promotes compassion, balance, and personal and professional growth.
• Resourceful – We value strategic in sourcing, first looking to create solutions internally, and then looking to apply that knowledge to future opportunities.

SUMMARY

Key member of Southern Champion Tray’s Marketing team, responsible for bringing the SCT brand to life through compelling, consistent visual communications while also supporting broader marketing initiatives.

This role combines senior‑level graphic design expertise with hands‑on marketing execution. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled designer who can independently manage creative projects from concept through completion, while also contributing to product launches, campaigns, digital marketing, sales enablement, events, and other initiatives that strengthen the SCT brand and support profitable growth.

The position requires someone who is both creative and practical, able to develop strong visual solutions while understanding the business objective, audience, and message behind each project.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Marketing Execution: Coordinates and executes creative components of marketing materials, including product catalogs, brochures, sell sheets, trade advertisements, trade show displays, manuals, and other collateral
• Brand Management: Ensures implementation of brand guidelines, guaranteeing consistency and high-quality standards across all design elements
• Collaboration: Works closely with Marketing Manager to align design and communication strategies with overall business goals
• Team Leadership: Mentors design team, fostering a culture of creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Digital Integration:
  • Oversees integration of any new technologies to enhance our capabilities
  • Leverages AI-powered creative tools to enhance concept development, image creation and editing, design exploration, production efficiency, and other creative workflows while maintaining SCT brand standards, quality, and originality

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Exhibits exceptional presentation and communication skills to effectively articulate vision internal teams and external partners
• Demonstrates meticulous attention to detail and strong ability to work under tight deadlines
• Utilizes organizational agility to navigate complex projects, working across functional areas to gather necessary inputs and drive projects to completion
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships across the organization, fostering cross-functional collaboration and trust
• Stays current on design, digital marketing, packaging, motion graphics, animation, and visual communication trends and identifies opportunities to apply relevant ideas to SCT's marketing

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities but may assist with training and mentoring other team members.

DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS

• Expands expertise in integrated marketing, digital marketing, visual communication, and emerging design trends to strengthen SCT’s brand and marketing effectiveness
• Continues to develop advanced capabilities in AI-powered creative tools and evaluates new technologies that improve creative quality,…