Design Manager

Job Title
Design Manager

Job Description Summary
As a member of the Capital Markets Property Marketing Hub, the Design Manager is responsible for planning, producing, and overseeing the creative strategy, implementation, and processes for a Capital Markets Graphic Design team. This position leads the Graphic Design team and collaborates with the broader Marketing team to execute strategic vision and to provide timely, consistent, and high-quality design work for our Brokerage Teams and Investor Clients.

We are looking for a creative, organized, and highly motivated team member who brings strong design aesthetic, experienced leadership, and enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and entrepreneurial sales environment.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Work with Capital Markets Property Marketing Hub Marketing Managers to develop and implement best practices to support operational excellence and build a effective marketing model that will deliver exceptional results
• Oversee the Capital Markets Property Marketing Hub Graphic Designer Team both as a people manager and as a creative lead - working with the team to grow their design skillset, accomplish their goals, approach design to align with the strategic goals of the Brokerage Team and Client, and to create best-in-class property marketing deliverables
• Design and format bespoke marketing materials including as needed
• Ability to help translate complex ideas and data into simple to read, easy to understand design materials
• Work with Brokerage Teams and Investor Clients, Hub Team Lead, Marketing team and Graphic Design team to creatively translate content into creative products
• Serve as a liaison to 3rd party design vendors and print vendors as needed
• Review creative output from Graphic Design team to ensure the work communicates critical messages and key value proposition to achieve business objectives and elevate Cushman & Wakefield's brand
• Manage internal workflow and prioritize total workload to ensure workload level matches allocated creative resources
• Actively communicate with Marketing team around the priority, progress, deadlines, and any outstanding questions
• Provide training and mentorship to Graphic Design team
• Provide best practices, stay abreast of design trends, and encourage creativity on the Graphic Design team
• Demonstrate a high level of creative development and production skill
• Monitor and enforce corporate design standards on local marketing materials

• Develop strong ties to colleagues in similar roles for effective sharing at a national level

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of senior-level design experience
• Previous in-house corporate design experience is highly preferred
• Previous design experience within the Commercial Real Estate sector is preferred
• Experience in long-form design
• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator is required
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint
• Familiarity with a project management tool is highly preferred
• Strong capability to work efficiently and independently to maintain high quality in a high-volume department
• Experience leading and managing a team - must be an effective, results-oriented communicator and leader with a focus on team development
• Ability to stay current with technological advances of design, specific to industry standards and best practices and to share and present on that knowledge
• Must possess business acumen and knowledge of project management concepts, practices, and procedures
• Strong time management, organizational, and prioritization skills - must have the ability to balance multiple priorities and projects simultaneously and be able to communicate clearly if bandwidth challenges arise
• Self-motivated approach with the ability to take initiative but works well in group environment

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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