Director, Creative North America

This position will drive overall creative strategy and associated activities for North America Home. This position will deliver strategic creative and compelling product lines thatbuilds business for Disney Home and manage the North American creative team while partnering with category, sales and licensees.

JOB responsibilities:

Responsible for developing and implementing vision for creative resourcesfor North America Creative team.

Responsible for management and personal development of creative team.

Represent North America Creative and lipase with cross lob creative leads and RSM teams in Burbank.

Responsible for developing and implementing vision for creative resources for North America team.

Develop and deliver a North American Creative strategy in line with the Global objective to actively manage retail accounts, manage franchise priorities, and achieve annual financial targets.

Responsible for leading North American team for annual/seasonal creative development (trend, inspiration, creative concepts, and style guides) for North America Licensee base and Direct-to-Retail deals. To be presented at key meetings, as needed.

Instigate and drive nominated creative initiatives x-LOB.

Represent the team in meetings, pitches, presentations as needed and must be able to travel throughoutUS, Canada and Mexico to meet with licensees, retailers andfor Disney events.

EXPERIENCE:

8-10 years creative experience in the Home Textiles, Furnishings and/or Infant Products retail and manufacturing industry, or related field is essential.

A background in licensing/brand is essential.

Team management and people development experience is essential..

Experience of a global organization advantageous.

Must be computer literatein Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop & Illustrator

EDUCATION:

Bachelors degree

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:

Creative drive

Leadership

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Excellent time management and organizational skills

Tenacious

Commercially astute

A team player and problem solver

Job Requirements:
See above

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