Address: USA-PA-Carlisle-1149 Harrisburg Pike
Store Code: Marketing Services (5157841)
A great career opportunity
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of Netherlands-based Ahold Delhaize, is the parent company for Ahold Delhaize's U.S. companies, including its local brands, Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop, and the U.S. services companies, Retail Business Services, Peapod Digital Labs and ADUSA Supply Chain. When considered together, the local brands of Ahold Delhaize USA comprise the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast and the fourth largest grocery retail group in the nation, operating more than 2,000 stores and distribution centers across more than 20 states and serving millions of customers each week through a uniquely local omnichannel experience. The Ahold Delhaize USA company team includes just over 100 associates across all East Coast office locations.
Primary Purpose
The Art Director position is an opportunity to serve as a technical lead for architecture, design and interface decisions related to next-generation, global Web platform and designs for ADUSA and household brands across various mediums, from banner media to other offsite media.
In addition to media design, the Art Director will establish cross-functional and cross-border publisher relationships designed to accelerate and broaden our growth in the national online channel. To include enhancements and creation of technology platforms and applications that can be used effectively across ADUSA.
Help establish overall work processes and standards for the AD Retail Media team. Create multiple draft solutions to a marketing creative problem that consistently meet business and communication objectives. Able to evaluate multiple concepts, and discern and articulate which ideas are most valid and worth pursuing
Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Salisbury, NC , Chicago, IL, Quincy, MA, Carlisle, PA, Scarborough, and ME, Hyattsville, MD.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Duties and Responsibilities
- You work with key members of the management team to define and drive creative strategy
- Develop creative samples that are error-free and display creativity, technique, and digital expertise in both short- or long-term executions
- You're a self-motivated, organized designer who works efficiently to meet tight deadlines
- Drive the design methodology of the media development process
- You can confidently shift between brand/publisher strategies and tactics, from easy layouts to long-term creative strategies
- Your design style is flexible and you're a master of solution-based executions that are on brand
- You offer constructive solutions when approached with challenges or feedback
- You keep up with the latest industry trends
- You're a strong communicator and collaborator
- Review and provide guidance to AD Retail Media's publisher initiatives
Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in marketing, business or related field
- 3+ years of professional digital design experience
- Ecommerce media experience
- Proven time management skills - able to sustain timeline management and campaign deliverables
- Understanding of CPG environment either through direct engagement experience or similar exposure
- Comfortable with DSP, DMP, PMP terminology & discussion
- Ability to work in a team environment
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA preferred
- You can confidently shift between brand/publisher strategies and tactics, from easy layouts to long-term creative strategies
- A design style that is flexible and a master of solution-based executions that are on brand
- Owns the room (even virtually) - present dynamically and instill confidence to challenge our clients in a kind, smart and creative way to ensure we are doing what is best for both businesses long-term
- Strong interpersonal skills to manage day by day leadership connections internally and externally
- Strategic mindset to develop media recommendations and deliver on revenue goals
- You're a self-motivated, organized designer who works efficiently to meet tight deadlines
At Ahold Delhaize USA, we embrace and celebrate diversity. Our employees and prospective employees are treated with fairness, respect and dignity. We provide an equal opportunity workplace committed to hiring, training, compensating, and promoting persons based on their talents and abilities and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, family status, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.
Job Requisition: 409686_external_USA-PA-Carlisle
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What We Do
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more. Our team includes some of the best and brightest talent from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from decades-long careers in retail to fresh perspectives from outside our industry. With a purpose-driven culture grounded in our values of courage, care, integrity, teamwork and humor, we are committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued. Our team shares a common motivation to drive change, take ownership and enable the brands we support to nourish their customers and communities. We thrive on supporting great local grocery brands and their strategies.
As part of the largest grocery retail group on the East Coast, we understand our vital role in enabling healthier people and a healthier planet and have an ongoing commitment to driving sustainable change that leads to a thriving food system, nourishes local communities, and creates a better world.
Why Work With Us
We love fresh perspectives, not just fresh produce. We believe that a diverse workplace fosters creativity, accelerates innovation, and helps us create an even better product. At PDL, you’ll find coworkers who are caring and committed, and who focus on dreaming big and getting things done.
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Ahold Delhaize USA Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.