Creative Agencies

Creative professional with Manager and Graphic Designer experience. Passion in both leading a team of creatives as well as hands on interaction to divide and conquer workload. Effective ability to manage a team of graphic designers through organization, communication, positivity and flexibility. Led a streamlined ad process between buyers, photographers, marketing partners and graphic designers which gave the team the ability to work together to meet deadlines.

Quickly adjusts to last minute changes and views challenges as opportunities. Ability to interact calmly and confidently under pressure. Comfortable collaborating with a wide range of key players - from CEO, VP of Operations, CMO, buyers, photographers to marketing team members.

Strong presentation and communication skills to inspire creative ideas, thoughts and rationale.

Driven to meet deadlines, dependable team player and high level of work ethic.

• Manage a team of graphic designers to ensure deadlines are met and workload is balanced
• Quarterly & weekly meetings to plan advertising with CEO, CMO & buyers
• Collaborate & provide direction for photographers to ensure product photography is aspirational  & successfully drives traffic
• Collaborate with buyers to select product for ad & signage photography
• Provide photography direction
• Ensure marketing efforts are clear, relevant & consistent
• Provide creative briefs to outline time expectations, objectives & key players
• Develop & create company infographics
• Partner with trademark counsel to develop brand names & obtain/retain company registered marks
• Partner with IT to ensure Macs, software & printers aligned with the needs of a graphics team
• Graphic Design - (same as prior title)
• Support all in-house design needs for Store Operations, Recruiting, Training, Loss Prevention & Safety

Creative Manager

• Conducted interviews, created a team of 3 graphic designers
• Managed 3 graphic designers & 1 graphic design holiday temp to ensure deadlines are met and workload is balanced
• Conducted annual reviews & employee improvement plans
• Meet weekly with CEO, CMO & Director of Marketing on chain ads
• Ensure marketing efforts are clear, relevant & consistent
• Train advertising partners on digital ad proofing site
• Meet with Marketing team for consistent understanding of ad versions
• Collaborate with photographers to ensure product photography is aspirational & successfully drives traffic
• Partner with IT to ensure Macs, software and printers aligned with the needs of a graphics team
• Graphic Design - (same as prior title)
• Support all in-house design needs for Store Operations, Recruiting, Training, Loss Prevention & Safety

• Create Graphics advertising schedule with start to finish ad time line
• Implement company wide brand consistency training
• Develop logo guidebook & private label guidebook to provide Pantone colors, font styles & logo standards to create brand consistency both internally & with external partners
• Manage a graphic designer & holiday graphic designer temp to ensure deadlines are met & workload is balanced
• Ensure marketing efforts are clear, relevant & consistent
• Collaborate with photographers on ad photography
• Weekly direct mail print ad design
• Product photo color corrections to minimize photography cost
• Organize ad versions based on language, region and product
• In-store signage design to create seasonality and branding throughout the store
• Packaging design for private label packaging
• Logo design for internal events and conferences
• Partner with product buyers to ensure marketing efforts are clear & relevant
• Partner with IT to ensure Macs, software and printers aligned with the needs of a graphics team
• Support all in-house design needs for Store Operations, Recruiting, Training, Loss Prevention & Safety

Senior Graphic Designer

• Weekly direct mail print ad design
• Product photo color corrections to minimize photography cost
• Organize ad versions based on language, region & product
• Create version plate charts for printers
• Maintain addresses of stores for print ads
• Logo design for internal events & conferences
• Partner with product buyers to ensure marketing efforts are clear & relevant
• Partner with IT to ensure Macs, software & printers aligned with the needs of a graphics team
• Partner with photographers for product pickup, photo transfers & product return
• Support all in-house design needs for Store Operations, Recruiting, Training, Loss Prevention & Safety

Graphic Designer

• Designed weekly direct mail ads, brochures, magazines & programs for a variety of clients including Anna's Linens, Welcome magazine & Angels Baseball
• Combined vendor ads with editorial magazine content
• Created logos for retail stores
• Collaborated with clients on corrections to meet print deadlines

Find out detailed information about Suezanne Howard,  in Garden Grove, CA

Suezanne Howard: in Garden Grove, CA

Suezanne Howard

California State Polytechnic University