Manager, Creative Operations

3 weeks ago

Chicago, United States Chomps Full time

**Who We Are**

We're Chomps, the fastest-growing meat snack brand reimagining best-for-you snacking. Made from the highest quality, humanely raised proteins, no sugar, and only real ingredients, we make snacking simple, delicious, and nutritious. Chomps can be found in over 20,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, sustainable, and real food that tastes great.

**Traits of a Chompian**

If you've been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You're a team player who's self-motivated and action-oriented. You're committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You're a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you'll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You're hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.
- **_Accepting applicants from 5/24 - 5/29/24_**

**The Opportunity**

**The Job**

The Creative Operations Manager will be responsible for two main areas - strategizing and managing the creative workflow processes and operations for the Chomps in-house Creative Team, while also planning and leading shoot production across photography, videography, and other content productions.

This role will manage project expectations with internal team members to ensure projects & productions run smoothly and deliver on time. It will also lead the development of schedules, timelines, and deadlines associated with smaller quick turn projects, evergreen brand assets, as well as larger seasonal and equity brand campaigns. This role will also need the ability to manage and negotiate contracts and terms with outside vendors to execute video and other content needs.

**Responsibilities**

Creative Project Management
- Responsible for planning, organizing, managing, and overseeing the execution of creative projects from conception to completion in partnership with the Creative Director.
- Manage weekly workflow of the creative team, including copywriters and art directors, to ensure bandwidth is properly managed and balanced throughout the team and competing priorities.
- Oversees briefing in Monday project management, to ensure projects contain all relevant information needed for the creative team to execute - proof-reading briefs to ensure all edits and comments are addressed and completed correctly on designed projects.
- Build schedules and timelines for creative deliverable campaigns, including but not limited to print, digital, sale promotions, seasonal campaigns, retail activations, swag and physical item creations, content and miscellaneous creative requests.
- Act as a primary communicator between the creative team (art directors & copywriter) and marketing team (brand, retail, sales, e-commerce), to coordinate timelines, gather information needed, and enforce deadlines and problem solve in an efficient and professional manner.
- Works closely with Creative Director to assign tasks to team and manage freelance/contractor workflows.
- Manage and nurture external creative vendor relationships and resources regarding deadlines and budget needs.
- Develop and manage campaign timelines and all creative briefs, in Monday - for larger campaigns build out any additional documents or tools necessary for success.
- Actively work to lead and support the team by facilitating ongoing communication in weekly updates to keep the team focused on delivering results and aware of any shifting priorities or requirements.
- Organize, attend, and lead kick-off and status meetings with key players to ensure that project needs and deadlines are being met and send a clear and concise recap of next steps.
- Proactively and consistently conceive of, define, and develop process improvements to increase efficiency and productivity across the creative team as well as cross-functional teams.

Shoot Production
- Work with the Creative Director and extended creative team (art directors & copywriter) to bring the vision of a shoot to life, considering creative direction scope, budget parameters, and larger cross-functional project timelines when organizing production.
- Scope creative production requirements within projects and plan production timelines accordingly.
- Sourcing, booking, and coordinating contractors for shoots (photography, video, additional content production).
- Develops all cost estimates, manages freelance recruitment NDAs, contract negotiations and partner on-boarding.
- Manage budgeting and seek to optimize costs and scale creative production.
- Be the main source of contact for all production vendors, sending.
- Organize post-production with partners (retouching, color corre

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