Senior Marketing Communications Specialist

A self-driven senior graphic designer experienced with applying strategy, reporting to Creative Services Manager. Works in project teams within the regional Marcom team to ensure delivery of work that is targeted to the marketing communications objectives and expectations of the NA Home Comfort and Security businesses as defined in the Creative Brief, while building the brand.

Responsibilities:

Creative Excellence

• Develops concepts and designs as directed in the Brief. Marries the written word with visual design to create powerful solutions for Resideo and Honeywell Home brand marketing communications needs. 
• Communicates conceptual and stylistic direction on projects to other creative team members. 
• Shares best design practices. 
• Delivers graphic design solutions for print, web, and social media that are fresh, accurate, relevant and on deadline.

Marketing Communications (Functional) Effectiveness

• Helps develop, and uses, templates, standards and Design Language Strategy. Reinvents less. 
• Maintains processes and digital asset repositories. 
• Provides design services for Resideo Corporate level initiatives, Consumer Products, Home Comfort and Security Products Business Units as assigned. 
• Understands the strategic business units products, markets and audiences. 
• Follows project management process and tools. 
• Takes initiative to manage own project priorities and deadlines.

Art Direction of Outside Resources

• Provides direction to outside creative resources for projects: photographers, videographers, illustrators, and designers. 
• Works within project budgets reporting back to Creative Manager, MarCom Generalists and Project Managers as needed.

Brand Compliance

• Follows brand style guides and templates to ensure consistency of Resideo and Honeywell Home brand compliance. 
• Interprets and executes against Creative Briefs that meet Marketing value propositions.

Position Profile:

Creative professional with strong graphic design expertise and minimum 5 years of experience in developing communication design in agency and/or corporate environments.

Basic Qualifications:

• BFA degree in Graphic Design, Advertising, Visual Communications. 
• Minimum 5 years experience creating B2B and B2C communications 
• Minimum 5 years experience understanding of creative, production processes across entire Marcom mix. 
• Minimum 3 years experience directing outside creative resources. 
• Fluent in Adobe Creative Professional Suite, InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, PPT.

Additional Qualifications:

• Trade Show and Exhibit experience 
• Retail merchandising experience 
• Familiarity with Adobe digital tools, web, 3D rendering, animation. 
• Mix of corporate in-house and agency experience preferred. 
• Strong planning skills 
• Writing, communication and presentation skills 
• Process/systems skills 
• Capacity to work in a geographically dispersed organization 
• Interpersonal skills, including the ability to quickly establish and maintain rapport. 
• Schedule flexibility and resilience, including ability to adapt to changing/uncertain conditions. 
• Familiarity with DAM/CMS software and online Project Management tools.