Senior Manager, Creative Production

About Us

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win

Target Creative’s Brand Design Lab is the in-house creative team dedicated to bringing one of the world’s most beloved and recognizable owned brands to life. Our mission is to inspire a sense of joy, wonder and excitement, and to take our guests—and ourselves—somewhere new. We tell a compelling and cohesive brand story. Some of the brands we have built are Good & Gather, Favorite Day, Ever Spring, Hearth & Hand, Cat & Jack, Goodfellow & Co. Operating as one fully integrated team in both the U.S. and India, the team comprises the best and brightest talent to execute market-leading creative strategy, packaging design & brand building. We are proud to say that we have not just one or two, but eleven brands with sales above a billion dollars each. Our owned brands have grown by 18% YOY and contributed to USD 30 billion in sales last year.

About this Opportunity

As a Senior Manager, Creative Production Design, you will leverage your deep design and production expertise to be a driving force in Target Creative by leading a team of production designers who support packaging design. You will support and develop the Production Designers on your team along with leading production design-specific projects, streamlining working models & creating efficiencies. You will articulate Target’s brand to infuse the work with an unmistakable Target approach and will be responsible for building and further defining production design expertise within Target Creative globally. You will act as a consultant in the shaping and sharing of process and best practices. You will be looked to as the point person for production design on high-profile and/or business critical projects, leading within ambiguity and clarifying production design points of view.You’ll coach and evaluate work through the lens of creative execution, but also guest journey and marketing goals. You’ll build and maintain global partnerships across Marketing & Digital as well as within Target Creative leadership. You will work to evolve how we execute work, in new, faster and more efficient ways. You will establish strategies for achieving individual and team goals that align to a specific area of focus in addition to the broader Target Creative vision and drive successful outcomes.

Critical to this role is having a deep expertise and application of production design in packaging & print, staying current with tools and application of design best practices as well as being a passionate advocate for high-quality production collaboration and execution. We’ll support you along the way with personal and career development, to help you grow as a strong Senior Manager, Creative Production Design.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of creative & production execution

• Deep expertise of working and executing within all marketing channels, especially packaging design.

• Understanding of and expertise within creative tools and technology with the ability to learn, apply and iterate within the tools required.

• Ability to guide and coach creative execution at both a macro and micro level and apply a critical eye to work streams for efficiencies.

• Refined presentation and negotiation skills, and the ability to align partners in high stakes moments.

• Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and develop people, including providing meaningful feedback and managing performance.

• Ability to lead a team through challenging and ambiguous moments, with strong leadership qualities including management and interpersonal skills.

• Proactive at seeking solutions to improve processes and elevate the work.

• Strong creative & professional portfolio demonstrating breadth of creative execution capabilities and problem-solving skills.

Useful Links-

• Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

• Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

• Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion

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