Group Art Supervisor: Creative Leadership & Brand Steward

Job Description

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

Agency

Omnicom Health

Job Function

Creative

Job Subfunction

Art Direction



Job Description

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

Title:

Group Art Supervisor

Location:

Wildtype - New York, NY

Department/Discipline:
Art

The Group Art Supervisor is responsible for managing the development, design and execution of all Agency offerings for both themselves and their direct reports. The Group Art Supervisor must manage their time and work with the account services team to prioritize all jobs effectively, as well as oversee and junior members of the art team by monitoring projects, delegating assignments and approving work.

The Group Art Supervisor mentors those in which they supervise by meeting with them consistently to better understand their career goals and helping to champion their causes when appropriate. The Group Art Supervisor also ensures that all of the team’s work is on strategy and maintains the highest level of brand consistency and excellence.

Primary

Job Responsibilities



General Responsibilities

Demonstrate leadership qualities as evident by ability to motivate team, facilitate great thinking, and keep the morale high

Proactively seek opportunities for improvements in the department and offer executable solutions

Keep Creative Director(s) briefed on creative projects in a timely manner

Establish credibility with Clients at all levels by developing knowledge of Client’s business, both the brand itself and people involved (i.e. internal client structure, individual responsibilities, and interaction between groups/individuals with respect to their impact on client jobs)

Manage outside vendor/resources effectively from both cost and creative standpoints, including photographers, illustrators, and production vendors for premiums and printing

Keep abreast of current advertising, design, and other visual communications

Continuously explore cutting-edge, current, and unique design styles and imagery

Demonstrate the ability to work in various forms of media including a working knowledge of the print production process

Contribute to new business efforts both creatively and as a reliable steward of the work

Brand Champion

Act as a brand steward maintaining the integrity and excellence of the brand in all materials developed

Provide comprehensive design overview and brand consistency throughout each project and for each assigned account as a whole

Consistently provide fresh, unique, and strategic thinking for all brand marketing/advertising initiatives

Ensure that Agency work is on strategy and contributes to growing the Client’s business.

Work as a team with copywriters to develop conceptual approaches to meet Client objectives

Attend photo-shoots; provide necessary on-the-spot feedback to vendors to effectively accomplish agency and client goals

Act as gatekeeper to ensure that all final products released demonstrate only the highest quality creative and effectively communicates brand messages to targeted customers

Be an effective presenter and clearly communicate creative concepts and rationale for design choices to team and clients and/or new business prospects

Demonstrate ability to “zoom in and out” (big picture thinking as well as attention to details) as necessary

Collaboration

Demonstrate ability…