Creative Manager Employee Engagement Content
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
- Lakewood, CO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead Video Project Production
- Collaborate with Store Support Center Departments: Operations, Training, Marketing, and Nutrition Education, Directors, and Executives to produce video projects which effectively communicate the intended message.
- Communicate frequently and effectively with these stakeholders.
- Lead the entire production process and Video Department Crew, ensuring successful execution of all video projects, including but not limited to the following steps/tasks:
- Writing scripts
- Casting and talent direction
- Graphic development and art direction
- Filming, editing, audio and lighting
- Ensure that all production deadlines are met.
- Performs annual performance reviews
- Evaluates/approves/declines time off request
- Monitors and approves timecards
- Manages deadlines and output to ensure all Video Department Crew achieve a high and sustainable level of productivity.
- Provides feedback and direction on video projects
- Evaluates new video projects and delegates tasks to appropriate Crew.
- Experience managing and storing content in multiple digital asset tools.
- 5+ years’ experience providing creative and social driven concepts for video marketing
- Minimum of 3 years experience in social and corporate communications
- Minimum of 3 years of successful management of a creative team.
- Expert Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro and/or Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Audition, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop.
- Strong creative video portfolio
- Advanced knowledge of video pre-production, production, and post-production
- Proven track record of effectively managing projects and a production team from start to finish
- Ability to develop high-level strategies and to be able to adjust alongside shifting goals
- Experience collaborating between Executive/creative/marketing leadership and video production to create a premium product
- Passion for further developing relationships with our vendor partners, and ability to travel periodically to tell their stories
- Success in developing big ideas that forge strong emotional connections between brand and consumer, and supporting those ideas with thorough creative research
- Able to demonstrate and understand how to most effectively market and utilize video on social media
- Intellectual agility and have a team player mindset
- Ability to write and deliver robust scripts and shot lists
- Commitment to excellence—working nonstandard hours when necessary, anticipating issues and communicating with diplomacy, identifying emerging platforms and trends to drive innovation
- Birthday Bonus Pay
- Vitamin Bucks (up to $2,080 earned as store credit annually)
- Holiday Pay for 5 Holidays – Stores Closed
- Paid Time Off (sick days and vacation) that Increases with Tenure
- Paid Nutrition Education
- good4u Crew Member Discount
- {N}power Program (customer appreciation and rewards program)
- Regular, Scheduled Pay Increases
- Advancement Opportunities and Career Development
- Health and Wellness Program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employee Referral Program
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Medical Leave (through company paid short-term disability insurance)
- Company Paid Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits Including Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Long-Term Disability Insurance, Term Life Insurance
- Retirement Savings Plan (401k) with discretionary Company Match
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with Company Match
- Must have the ability to frequently lift or carry up to 10 lbs and occasionally lift or carry up to 11-100 lbs.
- Must have the ability to occasionally push or pull up to 50 lbs.
- Must be able to constantly use mouse and must be able to frequently use of data entry.
- Must be able to constantly sit, use fine motor manipulations, and reach outward for the duration of the work shift.
- Must be able to constantly sit, stand, and use fine motor manipulations from the duration of the shift.
- Must be able to frequently walk and grip.
- Must be able to occasionally squat, kneel, bend, twist, turn, crawl, climb, reach outward, and reach above chest as needed.
- Must be able to work occasionally with outside, cold, heat, wet, humid, noise, and contact stress.