Experience Designer - Nature’s Path

Job No: NP227

Location: Richmond, BC

Employment Status: Full-time

No. of Vacancies: 1

Closing Date: 1 Dec 2018 AEDT

As Experience Designer - Nature's Path, you'll be overseeing & managing all the creative for one of our four core brands; in this case, Nature's Path Foods. This will mostly be visual creative but will also include less tangibles like tone, voice, any expressions of the Sub Brand. You will know, think, feel and understand this brand like few others. You will be the Sub Brand Creative Champion, the Design Rebel on the Nature's Path Food Creative Team.

You'll help define challenging creative briefs and guide innovative concept development, ensuring all creative is effective; on brand, on brief, on time and on budget. This will mean ensuring it gets done, either by internal or external teams, or even doing the creative yourself, as required. You'll champion the solution throughout the organization. In addition, you'll evaluate, guide and track results on a quarterly basis, and you'll also be responsible to continue to define, design, describe, and defend your Sub Brand. You'll also work closely with external creative agencies and other vendors when required.

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Critical outcomes for this role include:

• Oversee and/or create the creative content the Sub Brand requires, be it for web, social, print, outdoor, trade, sales, in field; wherever and whenever your Sub Brand is expressed and/or experienced.
• Along with the rest of your Sub Brand Team, you will help define the opportunity and/or problem to be solved, and define it in a Creative Brief.
• You will redefine this brief for Creative (if required), and help delegate these projects to designer/s, internal or external; or when required, just roll up your sleeves and do it yourself.
• Review design solutions to assess their validity and appropriateness for your brand, ensuing they are also on brief, on time and on budget.
• Present, explain, and if needed, defend the solutions to Sub Brand Team, and higher levels as required.
• Represent the Sub Brand from a creative standpoint & manage relationships with any external agencies, and vendors, including Design Agencies, Photographers, Illustrators, Videographers etc.
• Maintain your Sub Brand Standards Manual, and its various editions.
• Represent the Creative Design perspective within your Sub Brand Team, and work with the other Design Managers to ensure quality design is flourishing throughout the organization.
• Mentor the designer(s) on your team as required.
• Reports to Design Lead, and Designer will be reporting to you, so will be reviewing/meeting w/ Designers as required.

Success in this role will require:

Education

• Graduation from a recognized university or college with a specialization in graphic design or advertising communications, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Experience

• At least 7-10 years' graphic design experience in creating innovative design solutions. Packaged goods experience preferred but not essential.
• Must be able to present/defend a creative rationale for design solutions, and have experience presenting work.
• Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat)
• Working knowledge of Premiere, Final Cut, After Effects an asset
• Understanding of digital technologies, trends and the overall field of industry
• Project management skills and ability to lead and direct outside resources
• Experience in packaging production, video production, and photo shoot oversight, managing the processes from brief to shoot/execution to final edit and approval

Upon joining Nature's Path, you will become part of a vibrant team that contributes to bringing healthy, organic food to the world in a sustainable way. At Nature’s Path, we follow 5 core competencies and, as a result, strive to build a culture that is: performance driven, always improving, team focused, honourable and respectful, and sustainably and socially conscious.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Nature’s Path Foods; candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by Nature’s Path.

About Nature's Path

Nature's Path is a sustainably-driven, deliciously-healthy organic food company that believes in "leaving the earth better than we found it". At Nature's Path, we believe in the idea that you can come to work, and help make the world a better place in the same day. Nature's Path has received numerous awards such as the Greenest Employer award, BC's Top Employers award, and Financial Post's Ten Best Companies to work for in Canada!

As a family-run, privately-owned company with locations in Canada and the U.S., our company was founded with strong entrepreneurial spirit and mission to leave the Earth better than we found it, which has become part of everything we do. Since our establishment in 1985, we have expanded to employ a team of over 600 employees in U.S. and Canada! Our company's innovative brands include Nature's Path, Love Crunch, Envirokidz and Que Pasa.

Our goal is to be a trusted name for quality organic foods in every home, socially responsible, environmentally sustainable and financially viable. We believe that everyone should have access to delicious food that is both good for people and the planet. If you share our vision, please explore our opportunities and take the path to a new and exciting career! Visit Nature's Path online at www.naturespath.com, join us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.