Senior Manager of Creative Strategy
About The Position
When you join Verizon, you want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife. We are looking for a Creative Strategy, Sr Manager to join our Creative Strategy team within Verizon's CMO organization. In this role, you will be responsible for the development and execution of our home internet creative campaigns and leading all creative development for our home internet line of business. Your work will involve collaborating with internal cross-functional teams to understand business and strategic objectives to develop a clear creative POV and effectively manage the creative process and output. You will also be working very closely with, and managing, external agency partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
- Experience either agency or client-side (ideally Account Management, Strategy or Project Management).
- Experience working in creative environments and managing multiple stakeholders and projects.
- The agility and wherewithal to balance multiple priorities to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
Nice To Haves
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to help drive great creative work that moves the market and the industry forward.
- Are a self-motivated, creative problem solver with attention to detail and experienced in campaign orchestration.
- Experience with the coordination and communication among cross-functional internal teams, and agency partners.
- An eye for good creative work and the ability to clearly articulate your POV and guidance to make the work stronger.
- Excellent project management skills in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- An understanding of the creative development across channels - TV, online video, radio, digital.
Responsibilities
- Owning the creative development and execution for creative for the consumer home internet line of business and other marketing priorities.
- Managing the day-to-day with our external creative advertising agency and ensuring all work is delivered on time and on budget.
- Delivering clear direction and guidance to creative implementation teams.
- Reviewing all creative assets and providing feedback and/or strategic recommendations to make the creative work harder, all while ensuring consistency with brand standards and best practices.
- Working closely with media teams, both internal and external, including digital asset trafficking.
- Researching category, competitors, target audience and cultural trends to support creative strategy and inform execution.
- Tracking timelines and budgets, and being able to pivot and adjust as needed.
- Preparing and presenting materials to share with key stakeholders to provide insight into our activities.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance.
- matched 401(k) savings plan
- up to 8 company paid holidays per year
- up to 6 personal days per year
- paid parental leave
- adoption assistance
- tuition assistance
- premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc.
- up to 15 days of vacation per year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
