Associate, Creative Operations - Le Labo Fragrances

Company: Estee Lauder
Location: Brooklyn
Posted on: June 12, 2021

Job Description:

Le Labo fragrances was born in Grasse (France), raised in New York (USA) and offers artisanal genderless scented creations (fine perfumery, home fragrance as well as formulas for body, hair, and face). Le Labo stands for "the lab" in French: Each of our boutiques function like an open laboratory designed as an entertainment park for the senses where people can take the time to smell and touch raw ingredients in order to awaken their olfactory system and trigger emotions. We freshly hand-blend our fragrances on site, to the order and each label is personalized with the date and place of the formulation as well as a message chosen by our client.

Creating soulful Beauty with Care through our craft of slow perfumery is the heartbeat of our company. We work with a community of craftspeople who shape our world: the flower harvesters, the local family farms, the candle hand-pourers, the reclaimed wood artisans, the lab technicians etc. Joining Le Labo means joining a scented Revolution initiated 15 years ago as the antidote to mainstream fragrances and conventional marketing approaches. Being able to nurture our "small" roots and artisanal ethos while scaling our actions to become "big" and reach more people is our current balancing act for which we need support. Check out our manifesto online if you are intrigued, and please only engage if you truly connect with it.

https://www.lelabofragrances.com/about-us.html

Principle Objective:

The Associate, Creative Operations will help manage Le Labo's creative requests from end to end, communicating with cross functional teams to track and monitor the steps in the creative process, ensuring adherence to project defined guidelines, including timetables. The creative requests include, but are not limited to digital & print media, video placements, and social media requests. This candidate should be highly organized, have outstanding communication skills and be a self-starter that can hit the ground running.

What you'll do:

Creative Requests

• Work closely with Creative Operations / Project Management lead to manage the creative requests, ensuring they fit within overall Creative Production timeline.
• Manage all incoming creative requests, filtering out each request to assure its on-brand and aligned to business goals.
• Gather all specifications, references and context needed for each creative request, before the asset is shared with the graphic design team.
• Gather and provide product images for each online retailer launch that includes their assortment, according to specifications and the retailer's file naming convention.

Project Management

• Manage the workflow and schedules for creative programs within the Operations Department on a project basis with a focus on ensuring priorities and deadlines are met.
• Drive weekly/monthly status meetings with cross functional teams to assure the coordination of all incoming requests. Review and update internal status reports.
• Create and provide daily hot list to the Creative Team prioritizing workload for upcoming week.
• Partner with X to create agenda for Creative Review with CCO using Monday.com. Drive the creation of project updates, timing, and key milestones to be presented.
• Manage the cadence of refreshing our brand bank of images for the Global Marketing team to ensure our visual assets remain relevant as new doors open, and markets mature.
• Review of all creative deliverables to ensure functional specifications and requirements are met.
• Partner with the Creative Operations / Project Management lead in managing the Creative Team's budget.
• Own the master purchase order tracker to ensure all costs covered under Creative are accounted for.

Archiving

• Assist in building out the Marketing/Creative shared folders inclusive of documentation and imagery. Maintain the brand bank of image assets and new launch images.
• Support the maintenance of any shared folders across teams for file transfers of final artworks and/or files of fulfilled creative requests.
• Maintain the archive of assets for the creative team ensuring all the latest artworks and media are uploaded to their respective placements.
• Minimum 2-3 years of work experience
• Natural and strong communicator
• Strong attention to detail and stellar time management and organizational skills
• Understand how to prioritize projects according to the brand needs and timelines
• Has the natural passion to work in a creative environment with the emotional intelligence and sensitivity to work with creative personalities
• Has the ability to adapt to the speed of Le Labo production and development and can manage to keep projects in order within a fast-paced environment.
• Can understand the Le Labo language and brand ethos, as mentioned in the above description of the brand.
• Embodies the values and principles of the Le Labo manifesto, by fostering an internal culture of belonging and empathy.

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