Associate Creative Director at ScottsMiracle-Gro in Marysville, OH

Here at Scotts Miracle-Gro there is no such thing as a typical day. Our culture is constantly energized by new and exciting growth opportunities and at a rapid pace. Every Associate plays an important role in providing innovative solutions for today’s gardeners and growers and contributing new ideas to improve operations. In our company you need grit, it is what we were founded on over 150 years ago and is what keeps us growing. Regardless of your level in the organization there is a platform for your voice to be heard and the ability to influence change. Family, community and hard working values are weaved into all that we do. Come grow with us, where we develop and nurture the next generation of leaders. ​

We are looking for an Associate Creative Director (ACD) who will join our Garden’s Marketing team in Columbus, Ohio. If you are outside the Columbus Market, we would be open to remote work or eventually move to this great town.

We are looking for an ultra-talented Associate Creative Director to lead creative and production projects from concept creation to completion with our category leading Gardens brands (Miracle-Gro, Bonnie, AeroGarden). The ACD is a unique, cross-functional creative role within Scotts Miracle-Gro. Equal parts maker and manager of work. You will spend just as much time designing, sketching, editing, shooting, and making as you will leading work streams where you are managing and eliciting excellent creative work from others. We want you shooting photos, flying drones, making GIFs and generally doing whatever you need to do to help make excellent creative work for your brands.

The role can also be considered "brand steward" for the various creative needs for our brands, where the CM is responsible for making sure we are expressing our creative according to their exact positioning and guidelines, including language, copy, voice and tone, logo usage, color usage, typography usage, and imagery usage. Wherever the brand manifests itself, the ACD needs to be able to consult and guide the work from a creative perspective including packaging, secondary, POP, signage, printed collateral, advertising, social, digital and owned communication channels. The CM will consult with our internal teams and external creative agencies to help manage these work streams.

What you’ll do in this role:

• Supporting the Creative Director with the design and development of concepts, strategies, and presentations across packaging, advertising, and our owned channels.
• Managing and supervising multiple projects and teams across the enterprise and with our external agency partners.
• Ensuring resources are allocated according to project needs.
• Ensuring proper brand identity and message consistency across channels.
• Meeting client objectives, values, budgets, and deadlines.
• Leading and participating in brainstorming sessions.
• Lead and plan photo and video shoots.
• Keeping up with the latest trends, strategies, and technologies.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Degree in graphic design or related field.
• 10+ years of creative brand or agency experience.
• Solid knowledge of marketing, brand, and design principles and development.
• Must be an excellent, detail-oriented designer with a passion for typography, layout, color and pixel perfect creative execution.
• Experience leading and managing creative teams.
• Strong concept and strategy development skills.
• Expert with traditional and progressive printing processes, materials, substrates, color and ink.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• Expertise with the Adobe Suite of tools.
• Experience with illustration, video editing and animation is a plus.
• Gardening enthusiasts are a huge plus (or quickly willing to get hands in the dirt!)
• 20% travel as necessary to support various work streams.

What we do for you (just to list a few cool ones):

• Offer extremely competitive benefits including: Health, Dental and Vision coverage.
• Onsite wellness center which includes: 24,000 sq. ft. fitness center, Walgreens pharmacy and Doctor’s office. Or Fitness Club Reimbursement ($350) if remote.
• Nutrition reimbursement program (up to $200 per associate and per spouse).
• First day of hire, 401K match (up to 7.5%) and discounted stock purchasing program (15% discount).
• Our commitment to diversity and inclusion includes employee resource groups: Scotts Women’s Network, Scotts Black Employee Network, Scotts Veterans Network and GroPride Network, Scotts Young Professionals.
• 13 SMG paid holiday days and generous vacation policy.