Senior Manager, Creative, Seasonal - Sam's Club

Position Summary...

The Senior Manager Creative - Seasonal is to lead the development of high-impact 360 marketing campaigns across digital social print and in-store channels. This role partners closely with copy and creative leads to drive seasonal campaigns like Back to Class and Holiday ensuring strategic alignment and creative excellence. The ideal candidate is a conceptual thinker with strong leadership skills a sharp eye for design and experience managing teams and agency partners in a fast-paced collaborative environment. A strong portfolio deep understanding of consumer behavior and ability to deliver compelling brand narratives are essential.

About Sams Club Creative

Sams Club Creative Studio (SCCS) is the in-house creative agency for Sams Club. Our team develops breakthrough and distinctive omnichannel brand design systems that meet customer needs and drive business objectives while keeping our Fortune #1 brand relevant in culture. We use creativity and design to make Sams Club an obvious choice for all.

We are positioned as an internal creative agency hyper-focused on the customer experience across all channels categories campaigns and touchpoints. We are ruthlessly focused on our customers insight-driven creative strategies and integrated solutions that build the brand and grow the business.

We value talent innovation curiosity collaboration culture insights and results and we are committed to helping all people save money and live better.

What youll do...

• Collaboration: Ideate create and execute high-volume time-sensitive 360 campaign creative across all channels (owned & paid).Work cross-functionally with marketing ops teams integrated strategy and external agencies to ensure creative cohesion at every touchpoint and successful campaign delivery. Contribute to the development of compelling brand narratives and messaging frameworks that meaningfully differentiate Sams Club and resonate with customers during seasonal moments.
  • Build trust and effective relationships with key partners in a large highly matrixed organization.
  • Develop creative leadership and marketing pitch decks to gain alignment setting the team up for success.
  • Manage projects growth and development of mid and junior level creatives.
  • Self-directed / critical thinker
  • Pursue ways that we can work better faster.
  • Manage projects that are on-brief and on-brand mitigating feedback ultimately keeping workstreams on track from inception to completion ensuring timely delivery and alignment with strategic objectives particularly during compressed seasonal timelines

• Trend Analysis:Stay informed about industry trends emerging technologies culture and consumer behaviors demonstrating a keen understanding of seasonal consumer behavior and purchasing drivers to inform creative decisions and maintain our brands competitive edge.
• Quality Assurance:Maintain high standards of quality and craft throughout the conceptual and execution process ensuring that the final work meets or exceeds expectations and relentlessly seek to raise the creative bar.
  • Attend & oversee production shoots as needed demonstrating deep understanding of the end-to-end production process including working effectively with directors DPs editors mixers etc. to ensure the highest standards of quality and craft. Offer flexible solutions to production concerns.
  • Ability to design assets and brand campaigns as needed
• Project Oversight:Manage team & high-profile projects from inception to completion ensuring timely delivery and alignment with strategic objectives. Ability to quickly scope campaign initiatives prioritize projects and proactively manage your own time and deadlines gracefully manage multiple deliverables with competing deadlines. Ability to quickly turn around creative concepts in an iterative environment with a genuine hunger for constructive feedback. Effectively adapt strategies and creative based on performance data and seasonal shifts.

What Youll Bring:

• Bachelors degree in graphic design advertising or a related field.
• 10 years of experience in professional advertising agency Art Direction experience with at least 2 years management experience with a proven track record of delivering ground-breaking creative campaigns across multiple media
• Exceptional portfolio featuring big campaign ideas across full funnel TV/Video social digital experiential & printconceptual and innovative thinking.
• Proficiency in industry-standard design tools and software including the Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.
• Strong leadership communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate external agency partners and connect across Sams Club Creative Studio. Maintain composure in critical situations and communicate clearly with both internal and external partners.
• Clearly articulates vision and provides contextual feedback.
• Organized with diligent follow-through on every task.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills with a strong ability to sell concepts to senior stakeholders via comps storyboards and visual narratives. Effectively present concepts and campaign strategies to senior leadership in simple and compelling terms that earns executive sponsorship and drives approvals.
• Deep dedication to craft from concept ideation to execution.

Reporting:This role reports to the Creative Director Brand

At Sams Club we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind body and wallet!

- Health benefits include medical vision and dental coverage

- Financial benefits include 401(k) stock purchase and company-paid life insurance

- Paid time off benefits include PTO parental leave family care leave bereavement jury duty and voting. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation sick leave holidays or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws where applicable.

For information about PTO see Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability company discounts Military Leave Pay adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and more.

Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors degrees including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition books and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility see .

The annual salary range for this position is $90000.00-$180000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Design Marketing Creative Writing Advertising Fine Arts or related field and 3 years experience in editorial content management or related field OR 5 years experience in editorial content management or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed there are no preferred qualifications.

Digital Content Management Editorial Retail Management Supervising Associates WE-Working for or withCreative Agencies

Primary Location...

2101 Se Simple Savings Dr Bentonville AR 72712-4304 United States of America