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PLACED: Account Executive, Fashion retail, $50-65K, NYC

Get ready to blend strategic marketing resources, innovative creative thinking and the attentive service of a boutique advertising agency. The ability to deliver a broad range of integrated marketing services has helped this agency build solid brands and drive serious business results. This expanding, award-winning NYC creative agency seeks a pro-active Account Executive to join an account team with a lot of autonomy and access to a wide range of rewarding growth opportunities.

This is a faced-paced, fun, hands-on position with extensive ongoing client contact managing a diverse array of client projects, from web builds and banners to print and promotions. Serving as the integral link between the agency’s creative team and the client, you’ll assist in the planning and execution of ad strategies and initiatives; oversee day-to-day account activity; manage approval processes; document key account details; manage budgets and timelines; collaborate with the Account Director and creative team to develop and present agency work; help to gather and analyze client information and periodically monitor competitive activity. This is a collaborative & inspiring environment run by owners, highly regarded in the industry, who are engaged and involved in the day-to-day operations.

Please have 1-2+ years advertising agency account management experience; retail/lifestyle brand experience a plus. TV production experience required,radio a plus. You’re a quick study who can hit the ground running with the ability to translate a client request into clear directive for the creative team. Possessing a great work ethic, you should be flexible enough to work as part of a team or embrace the opportunity to work independently. And if you have a point of view, don’t be afraid to express it. Fun, warm, dynamic culture looking for like-minded individuals.

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October 21, 2018/22 Comments/by Hunter Gilmore

Strategy

PLACED: Strategy Director, $125-150K, NYC

Get ready to join a shop that delivers effectively on both brains and beauty, a hybrid agency that’s at once design-driven image makers and consumer-minded brand stewards.

They believe in the strategic power of strong imagery and brand iconography. They believe in the creation of platforms that define the spirit, voice and sensibility of the brand. They believe the best creative ideas grow from an emotional connection – entertaining while educating, energizing in order to empower, exuding a sense of escape. Guided by secondary research, the agency employs a range of primary research to ground ideas and campaigns in authentic, emotional insights straight from the consumer’s world.

With a focus on fashion/luxury/lifestyle, this expanding boutique ad agency is seeking a curious and cultured Strategy Director to inspire creative work through clear briefs, fresh insight and deep understanding about brands and human behavior, including consumer on-line and off-line shopping habits. You must be an exceptional strategic thinker with deep curiosity about human behavior and passion for new perspectives and trends. A strong writer and thinker, you are a confident presenter, able to articulate insights and ideas in a clear, human way. Please be highly collaborative with the resiliency to manage multiple simultaneous initiatives – innovation, research, pitches, briefs, mentoring, etc. This well-established, full-service agency possesses major credentials on integrated campaigns for some of the biggest fashion and luxury brands on the market. Considering the bulk of your attention will be on retail fashion/beauty/luxury accounts, a love of Vogue and previous category experience would be ideal; prior agency experience is a must-have.

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September 18, 2018/22 Comments/by Hunter Gilmore

Creative, Creative Services, Design

PLACED: Executive Director, Package Design; Beauty; NYC

Join a beauty brand with a smart category approach that resonates around the world. This brand has encouraged millions to equate feeling beautiful with the ability to become the best versions of themselves in all aspects of their lives. Why not join them? It’s rewarding to help others look and feel confident.

This is a fast-paced, growing brand that requires creativity, innovation and leadership from its employees in order to bring the best in prestige beauty products to market. You will be challenged every day to ensure the brand lives up to its long, upstanding history. The mission: to provide the highest quality and most effective products to enhance every skin type and concern, offering products for men and women of all ages and ethnicities. The brand’s customized approach and quality products have made it one of the leading skin care authorities in the world.

At core, the ED, Packaging is responsible for the impactful creation of shelf-back, social-ready 2D designs and package design layouts that help drive overall brand strategy. You understand that packaging is the key sales vehicle and design with consumer shopping habits in mind, across all channels (travel retail, specialty multi, department stores, online) in partnership with visual merchandising & store design. Strong in industrial design, this seasoned ED leads teams in concepting and ideating product designs (primary packaging) in line with brand needs and market trends, bringing packaging newness to product innovations while staying true to heritage facets of the brand identity. Utilizing retail expertise, the ED designs across various consumer touch points, including specialty-multi and open-sell as priority, with a strong focus on social/e-commerce. Partnering with other departments to ensure omni-channel connectivity, you leverage knowledge of competitive landscape and trends, always having a finger on the pulse, gaining inspiration from everywhere.

To be successful, you must foster an environment that rewards new ideas and moves them forward; this may challenge standard practices but helps generate fresh opportunities for the brand and the team. A savvy collaborator who provides clear direction across a complex structure, you build and develop diverse and inter-connected teams in support of overall brand objectives.

Further, the company deeply values the investment in the growth and development of its employees through extensive educational programs across all levels of employment. By inspiring confidence in the team, they all gain a lifetime of knowledge and in turn inspire confidence in clients. Understanding we are all unique, they value what each brings to the table and respect individual differences. This is a place where professional development is customized to your strengths and desired career path – to grow the individual and the brand.

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August 10, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Account Management

PLACED: Account Manager, Client-side, Beauty, $65-80K; NYC

Are you ready to join a company that is all about diversity and individuality?

This category-leading Beauty brand has collaborations with adored names from popular culture, art, and fashion. Sold around the world, the brand remains committed to developing new categories, products and over 50 collections each year, all of which continue to serve the demand of consumers and professional makeup artists alike. The brand’s popularity has grown through a tradition of word-of-mouth endorsement from makeup artists, models, photographers and journalists globally. As a brand-led innovation company — aimed at reaching the most discerning consumers, regardless of age or ethnicity — they have a rich understanding of the competitive beauty landscape and a command of the social, digital and traditional communications platforms needed to connect with audiences.

Are you a talented and strategic marketer with a passion for beauty? Come help develop and amplify a body-positive corporate, brand and product message. We’re seeking a savvy Account Manager with 3-5 years of experience to join an in-house Creative Services group, establishing, facilitating and maintaining workflow and communication between Creative and all other contributing departments, overseeing the development, production and delivery of an integrated range of projects – print, digital, video, social media, retail, collateral, etc. The digital, marketing and communications/PR teams support the company at various levels: in global and regional, corporate and brand functions. From shaping, enhancing and preserving the brand’s equity to contributing local execution to a brand strategy, to bringing valuable consumer insights to all brands, employing best-in-class practices that strengthen the company’s position as a global leader in Beauty. Staying close to consumers is critical to success, and their expertise spans from consumer insights and CRM to local relevancy and local brand marketing — including visual merchandising, product marketing and special events and promotions. As shopping habits and social media converge, and as digital commerce becomes increasingly important, their digital capabilities and insights are helping to create a seamless omnichannel experience to capture new opportunities.

YOU should be a motivated self-starter who can take a macro level view while managing the details of the nitty-gritty. Our Account team serves in a hybrid function that requires strong Project Management capabilities while servicing the internal client and any external partners. We are ideally seeking candidates with previous advertising Account Management experience; an integrated production background is also a plus, as you’ll touch on projects across a variety of creative channels. You’ll take ownership of projects and seamlessly follow through from inception to execution. Pro-active and flexible, you can adapt to the personalities of a large global team and provide support where needed. Beauty, luxury, fashion, lifestyle or other image-based brand experience required.

The company is committed to developing the next generation of leaders with a strong focus on professional growth and continuous learning; their signature executive education programs stimulate professional growth and cultivate business relationships across the enterprise. The global nature of your work across multiple regions and brands, functions and channels provides fertile ground for mobility and career growth. An inclusive culture embraces diversity of thought and empowers individuals to think as entrepreneurs. Further, corporate citizenship and sustainability are central to their beliefs — from employee volunteerism and cause-related campaigns to the creation of high-performing and safe products, all while caring for people and the environment.

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July 30, 2018/by Hunter Gilmore

Copy, Creative

PLACED: Creative Director, Copy; In-House, Beauty; NYC

Join a beauty brand with a smart category approach that resonates around the world. This brand has encouraged millions to equate feeling beautiful with the ability to become the best versions of themselves in all aspects of their lives. Why not join them? It’s rewarding to help others look and feel confident.

This is a fast-paced, growing brand that requires creativity, innovation and leadership from its employees in order to bring the best in prestige beauty products to market. You will be challenged every day to ensure the brand lives up to its long, upstanding history. The mission: to provide the highest quality and most effective products to enhance every skin type and concern, offering products for men and women of all ages and ethnicities. The brand’s customized approach and quality products have made it one of the leading skin care authorities in the world.

At core, the CD, Copy understands brand voice and marketing needs, and embodies a natural and strategic 360 mindset to storytelling, with an emphasis on social/digital/video. You develop forward-thinking storytelling viewpoints, in line with product launches, re-support initiatives and current trends, connecting the dots to tell a consistent, cohesive and compelling story across all mediums. With a conversational, expertise-driven and authentic voice, the CD conveys product benefits independently in a concise, consumer-first manner while expressing the brand personality. You tailor copy to specific target consumer profiles while maintaining brand equity/heritage (with input from senior Creatives, Marketing, Product Development) and think of ways to freshen and improve product communication at every touch point to better resonate with consumers. Further, this seasoned team leader, experienced in driving change and brand evolution, will ideally understand skincare terms to convey benefits and be passionate about the beauty category.

To be successful, you must foster an environment that rewards new ideas and moves them forward; this may challenge standard practices but helps generate fresh opportunities for the brand and the team. A savvy collaborator who provides clear direction across a complex structure, you build and develop diverse and inter-connected teams in support of overall brand objectives.

Further, the company deeply values the investment in the growth and development of its employees through extensive educational programs across all levels of employment. By inspiring confidence in the team, they all gain a lifetime of knowledge and in turn inspire confidence in clients. Understanding we are all unique, they value what each brings to the table and respect individual differences. This is a place where professional development is customized to your strengths and desired career path – to grow the individual and the brand.

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April 24, 2018/1 Comment/by Hunter Gilmore

Creative Services, Project Management

PLACED: Director of Project Management, In-house, Beauty, NYC

Join a beauty brand with a smart category approach that resonates around the world.

This brand has encouraged millions to equate feeling beautiful with the ability to become the best versions of themselves in all aspects of their lives. Why not join them? It’s rewarding to help others look and feel confident.

This is a fast-paced, growing brand that requires creativity, innovation and leadership from its employees in order to bring the best in prestige beauty products to market. You will be challenged every day to ensure the brand lives up to its long, upstanding history. The mission: to provide the highest quality and most effective products to enhance every skin type and concern, offering products for men and women of all ages and ethnicities. The brand’s customized approach and quality products have made it one of the leading skin care authorities in the world.

At core, you’ll oversee activities within the Global Project Management Office for Creative Operations. This position partners with senior/executive management to ensure that all creative activities are aligned to business strategies and priorities. This role is responsible for pushing the envelope with new processes, techniques and technologies while also driving a cycle of continuous improvement within existing teams and processes. Further, this position will setup and drive the global framework for creative activities and toolsets in all offices worldwide. The brand is increasingly doing more digital asset creation and video, and this person would need to help lead the operational evolution to enable that strategy to come to life. Also…

Develop and implement initiatives to increase efficiency and quality of project execution
Facilitate meetings to ensure decisions are reached, risks are addressed and stakeholders are appropriately engaged and informed to move work forward against deadlines and budgets
Work to install methodologies designed to enhance team effectiveness
Coordinate the overall development, compilation, and monitoring of PMO goals
Review and monitor team dashboards and report on day to day operational status to Brand President and managers
Create a network with all global project management functions; review and ensure alignment of all project timelines within the PMO globally
Generate and maintain integrated (cross-functional) business plan with associated goals, risks and risk mitigation plans to meet brand strategic objectives
Coordinate yearly project lists and priorities
Develop and implement project processes to provide a global view of projects and also develop KPIs, prioritization and resource planning metrics
Hire, coach, and manage a team of PMs, who manage the various creative projects in the book of work

The ideal candidate has experience with in-house and agency environments that have a heavy production output (product, digital, production, broadcast, post). You have the ability to influence outcomes and hold oneself and others accountable for commitments in a productive, assertive and positive manner. With a minimum of 12+ years’ experience as a creative project management lead, you’re adept with presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and pitching skills and well versed in short-term and long-range planning and execution of a portfolio of projects. You have experience working closely with finance, creative and marketing services and are comfortable utilizing technology platforms, ie. SmartSheet. Please have experience in recruiting, hiring, managing, developing, and motivating. PMP with knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and/or MBA a plus.

Further, the company deeply values the investment in the growth and development of its employees through extensive educational programs across all levels of employment. By inspiring confidence in the team, they all gain a lifetime of knowledge and in turn inspire confidence in clients. Understanding we are all unique, they value what each brings to the table and respect individual differences. This is a place where professional development is customized to your strengths and desired career path – to grow the individual and the brand.

Sounds great?! Shoot a resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Please share with your network, and get someone working!

April 23, 2018/23 Comments/by Hunter Gilmore

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