Creative Development Manager Jobs in Wisconsin (NOW HIRING)

About Us:

Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels.

Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience. By combining industry-leading talent, cutting-edge equipment, and a vertically integrated supply chain, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers—first and fast.

Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen’s®, Dutch Bros® beverages and Nurri™, our better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages – and about building a team that’s just as energized. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

Position Overview:

The Creative Traffic Manager is the orchestrator to the entire creative workflow. This role is the central hub to Trilliant's internal creative team; managing team capacity, setting schedules and reducing bottlenecks between cross functional departments and priorities. Navigating workflow management through intake, prioritization, and routing creative requests. Alongside the Director of Creative, you will establish timelines, milestones and deadlines for projects to ensure efficient delivery; identifying bottlenecks and supporting resources when priorities shift. Outside of day-to-day operations, the Creative Traffic Manager will have a high-level view, focusing on overall workflow efficiency and optimization of the entire creative department.

Responsibilities:

• Manage timelines, vendors and deliverables for offsite brand events such as tradeshows, tastings and retailer events
• Act as a liaison between the brand team and creative team to own the creative development process, making sure we get the best work out of the team at maximum efficiency and quality for the business
• Oversee workflow in multiple mediums across the creative team’s initiatives, ensuring version control, edits, internal deadlines, final deadlines, quality control and final release files all are optimized
• Organize creative reviews across key stakeholders, at times, leading them and bringing feedback back to the team and/or supporting the meeting collecting notes to submit recap
• Support managing outside vendors such as printers, vendors...etc.
• Draft internal and external creative development schedules geared around key milestones and stakeholders, that also allow for the best creative output
• Audit hours, budgets, staff to match against expectations and proactive considerations, keeping everything moving smoothly
• Support onboarding new creative team members, vendors, contractors and freelancers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their creative needs and provide solutions and facilitate communication between stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clarity on creative objectives
• Develop and maintain a repository of best practices for creative operations
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• An associate's degree in Project Management, Marketing, Communication or Art.Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3-5 years of experience in creative operations or traffic management, preferably in a fast-paced environment
• Previous experience in a creative role such as designer, copywriter or creative strategist preferred
• Strong understanding of creative development, thinking and processes
• Strong skills in budget management and resource allocation
• Proven experience within project management tools
• Ability to excel in a fast paced and exciting environment while keeping focused on priorities with a high attention to detail and follow through
• Understanding of creative workflows and processes
• Experience in workflow optimization and process improvement methodologies

Hours, Location and Pay:

We offer a competitive base pay rate and comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. This role works standard business hours Monday – Friday at our Little Chute, WI facility.

Physical and Mental Demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, use a personal computer and telephone. This employee may occasionally have to operate business machines and lift and/move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Mental demands include multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
• Potential for exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other potential hazards exists.

Safety Statement:

At Trilliant and Horseshoe, safety is every employee’s first responsibility. We expect all employees to adhere to all safety practices, have the moral courage to stop other individuals from performing unsafe acts, and immediately report unsafe conditions.

Disclosures:

• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
• Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
• Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
• Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage participate in the E-Verify process.
• EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled
• If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at HR@trilliantfood.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
• Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage are Equal Opportunity Employers.
• The principles of the OECD and UN have been taken into consideration and used as guidance in our human rights practices and procedures.