Sales Associate Graphic Designer Jobs in Appleton, WI

Description
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.
Our Core Values:
Position Overview:
The graphic designer I will explore and conceptualize design and creative solutions for brand-led transformation. You will play a key role in ideating, collaborating, and developing innovative brand ideas across multiple applications such as digital, print, packaging, and brand identity as well as guiding projects from concept to completion, ensuring the highest quality of creative output. This role has an opportunity to help shape the growing and evolving creative team within Trilliant and support driving creative excellence across our owned brands as well as private label brand partnerships.
Responsibilities:
• Drive compelling visual solutions that bring the brand narrative to life
• Partner and interact with internal teams to showcase your passion for creative excellence, branding, packaging and visual communication
• Develop and lead creative brainstorm sessions, creative reviews and brand transformation timelines
• Develop innovative design concepts, including branding, packaging, digital and print
• Support the Director of Creative through corporate identity brand expression needs such as: website, internal communications, site experience, organization enablement, talent acquisition collateral, cross-collaborative process development and brand design system that drives Trilliant to be an employer and partner of choice
• Draw or represent design thinking using traditional design to integrate brand messaging, color, imagery, type and composition into deliverables
• Stay current with industry trends and integrate new design techniques and technologies into your work and help elevate efficiencies, processes and output across the creative team
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercialization, e-commerce, sales, marketing and HR to ensure cohesive and impactful creative solutions - and at times partner with external agency partners
• Support the Sr. Designer in packaging structure execution such as mockups, renders, customer meeting preparation, in-store experience buildouts and more
• Draft creative briefs and mood-board development in support of the Director of Creative for external agency partners
Qualifications:
• A Bachelor's degree or associate's degree in Graphic Design, Graphic Communications
• 2-3 years of design experience is required
• Knowledge in product photography is a plus
• Knowledge in graphic production process is a plus
• Good communication skills with the ability to collaborate
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
• Impressive portfolio, demonstrating recent work
• Ability to build strong working relationships internally and externally
• Ability to effectively problem-solve, research and analyze information
• A continuously curious mind, with eagerness to always progress, challenge and innovate
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.