Job description

Job Title: Creative Traffic Coordinator
Department: Creative
Reports to: Creative Director
Hours Available: M-F 8:30-5:30 (1-hour lunch)
Location: Farmingdale, NY

Why Work @ BEDGEAR?

If you're looking for a career and not just a job, BEDGEAR provides a work environment that accelerates growth for all of its team members. Keeping up with the every day challenges of a fast-growing consumer goods company demands a team of all-in players, who are focused on continuous improvement, collaboration, leadership, and have a growth-mindset. If you want to elevate yourself personally and professionally, surrounding yourself with others that share the same values, beliefs, and behaviors will provide the support and extra push to reach new heights and smash new goals. At BEDGEAR you can expect to find successful team mates who exemplify our core values of being:

HUNGRY - HUMBLE - CURIOUS - CLEVER - COMMITTED - HUMANITARIAN

About BEDGEAR® PERFORMANCE®

As the only brand of Performance®, BEDGEAR® launched in 2009 with professional-grade bedding products designed to help Olympians and other career athletes prioritize sleep as part of their training regimens. In 2011, the company introduced personalized fit pillows and mattresses to consumers, touting a proprietary fitting process for 100% of everyone's total sleep comfort, based on their sleep position and body frame. BEDGEAR is sought-after for their patented airflow layers, the world's first moisture management fabric technologies, and personalized fit components, which create a more awake population. The brand has stayed true to its roots, becoming the choice of more than 15 professional and national sports teams and more than 200 individual athletes and opinion leaders, including the New York Road Runners, hosts of the world's largest marathon, the TCS New York City Marathon. A proud manufacturer in the USA, BEDGEAR focuses their innovation on being additive to growing local community and maintaining strong specialty retailers. BEDGEAR's products are sold in more than 4,000 retail stores across the globe and have earned more than 190 U.S. and worldwide patents and trademark registrations and pending applications. This thriving international presence has empowered BEDGEAR to grow beyond borders to a global footprint from which they are fostering a vision of World Peace through commerce. Sleep Fuels Everything®! Learn more at bedgear.com.

Summary:
The Creative Traffic Coordinator will play an important administrative and supportive role within the creative team department.

The ideal candidate will come from a creative team or agency setting and display a general understanding of the creative operations and common creative and design terminologies. The will have great communication and collaboration skills, and display the ability to managing creative requests coming from various departments.

Essential Functions (include but not limited to):

• Oversee project management tools (Jira) to ensure all project requests are reviewed and assigned to a designated designer. Ensure all projects stay on track and follow up with requesters during delays.
• Gather necessary information, collect details from requestors when needed.
• Help creative team on filing, organizing the creative server. Make necessary changes and develop a system that works for the team.
• Help manage information flow to freelancers and outside agencies when working on special projects requiring external support. Includes receiving & sending files, or products.
• Assist with organizing the photo studio and help with selecting, purchasing, storing, and logging props when needed.
• Expense reporting as applicable
• Have a stronghold on all assets, their location and ability to share as necessary.
• Continue to innovate new solutions to streamline process and increase team productivity
• Run local errands as required
• Pick up print graphics
• Drop off products to local studios
• Shop for props
• Assist with additional projects as requested

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• HS Diploma or GED
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and have IDs needed to verify
• English proficient (reading, writing, speaking, comprehension)
• Willingness to work on-site @ Farmingdale office
• Must be able to execute quality control on own work as well as that of others
• Ability to showcase problem solving skills, creative thinking, and ability to adapt
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven fast-paced environment
• Experience working cross-functionally and collaboratively across multiple departments
• Ability to display fiscal awareness and responsibility for department's resources

Education/Experience/License Requirements:

• Associates degree or equivalent in marketing, business administration, design, fine arts, graphic or creative studies is highly preferred
• 2+ years of relevant professional experience in project management or creative production is highly preferred (internship experience applicable)
• Experience with JIRA or similar project management tool is required
• Demonstrated eye for creative details including typography, copy editing, use of photography, layout, color & motion is necessary for some quality control on deliverables
• Experience with Adobe Creative Suite is a plus

Sensory Requirements: With or without use of corrective lenses or any other visual aid, must be near and far-sighted to be able to inspect and review visual materials in print and digital. Must have full color vision. Will be required to look at a computer screen for extended periods of time. With or without use of hearing aids, must be able to engage in verbal communication (both in person and on phone) with team and outside parties.

Language Skills: English proficiency with strong grammar and syntax. Bi-lingual a *plus*

MUST HAVE...

Ability to prioritize effectively and operate efficiently; use sound judgment to make rational decisions; ability to recognize opportunities and evoke change where applicable;strong follow up skills; interpersonal skills; excellent communication skills; attention to detail and process orientation; problem solving skills; analytical skills

BEDGEAR® is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that participates in the e-verify program!

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