The Role
Leads art direction, graphic design, and production for marketing, sales, brand, digital, and corporate communications assets. Creates campaigns, presentations, reports, brochures, newsletters, signage, videos, and web content while maintaining brand standards. Collaborates with cross-functional leaders, supports product and service development, updates websites and internal portals, and contributes to social media initiatives. Requires strong conceptual, strategic, communication, project management, and deadline-management skills.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities
Manage art direction, creative design, and production of projects such as direct marketing campaigns, customized sales presentations, white papers, brochures, newsletters, signage, videos and other intitiatives. Conceive and design art and plan content. Develop and implement strategic recommendations.
Responsibilities:
- Manage art direction, creative design and production of projects, including, but not limited to, direct marketing campaigns, customized sales presentations, white papers, brochures, newsletters, signage, videos and other initiatives. Conceive and design art and plan content.
- Develop and implement strategic recommendations that innovate, engage prospects and customers, and constantly push the brand forward.
- Serve as lead brand steward ensuring that all assets are adhering to brand standards.
- Support product or service development through collaboration with leaders. Determine style, technique, and medium best suited to produce desired effects and support the customer needs which includes but not limited to designing partnership reports, newsletters, quarterly review presentations and other initiatives.
- Update and maintain the corporate website along with the internal portal to ensure a fresh and up-to-date look.
- Support Ruan social networking initiatives.
- Perform other job-related duties and special projects as required.
Job Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience in Graphic Design or related fields of study
Experience: 6-9 years experience in graphic design, creative services, marketing services or communication, or related field. At least 2 years experience in business to business.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must be able to commit to Ruan's value statement by acting with integrity in everything we do.
- Must be able to meet behavioral expectations and perform in alignment with our guiding principles: safety, people, customer, performance, and continuous improvement.
- Must have excellent design and conceptual experience, ability to manage multiple projects, and strong collaboration and communication skills. Requires expert knowledge of In-Design, Photoshop, Power Point, Keynote and Illustrator. Needs experience working closely with cross functional teams. Must have ability to work well under pressure and with tight deadlines, positive, entrepreneurial spirit, and customer focused thinking. Requires the ability to think strategically.
Benefits:
Ruan provides benefits which include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, as well as 401k and Paid Time Off.
Ruan provides benefits which include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, as well as 401k and Paid Time Off.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Graphic Design or a related field
- 6–9 years of experience in graphic design, creative services, marketing services, communications, or a related field
- At least 2 years of business-to-business experience
- Expert knowledge of InDesign, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Keynote, and Illustrator
- Excellent design and conceptual experience
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with cross-functional teams
- Ability to think strategically and work under pressure
- Ability to act with integrity and align with company guiding principles
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The Company
What We Do
About Ruan Founded in 1932, Ruan is a family-owned transportation company providing Dedicated Contract Transportation, Managed Transportation, Value-added Warehousing, and Brokerage Support Services. With more than 90 years of transportation and logistics experience, Ruan is one of the top 10 privately owned transportation service companies in the country. The company operates in 48 states and has more than 300 locations nationwide.
