Creative Director

Crafting distinctively delicious food starts early morning in Au Bon Pain cafe. While our bakers line the shelves with hot, freshly baked pastries, muffins, bagels and scones, other team members brew our rich coffee and espresso blends from the highest-quality Arabica beans, set up the health smart oatmeal bar, and prepare dozens of fresh eggs for nourishing breakfast sandwiches. Their passion for quality and freshness continues throughout the day with mouthwatering sandwiches and wraps served on freshly baked breads; hearty soups, stews and macaroni and cheese; enticing salads topped with our signature dressings; and assortments of cut and whole fresh fruit; cheese and crackers; energy bars; nuts; yogurt and indulgent cupcakes, cookies and brownies.

Au Bon Pain caters to today's sophisticated but time-constrained customer in many ways. One day you may enjoy a made-to-order customized sandwich or salad, designed by you and prepared just the way you like it. And the next day, you may only have time to grab a pre-made salad, sandwich, wrap or snack. But no matter how you shop Au Bon Pain, we promise that our food will always be delicious and fresh and our service fast and friendly.

Au Bon Pain--Taste the goodness in every flavor-full bite!

Position Summary:

As the Creative Director you are responsible for the strategy, development and execution of all creative for brand communications internally and externally. You possess a deep understanding of branding, marketing, copywriting, and content strategy with core strengths in design and communications. The Director will use consumer and brand information to develop strategies to grow sales profitably. You will work with multiple corporate functions and field personnel to ensure that programs, tactics and communications are executed in a timely and efficient manner.

Responsibilities:

• Establish creative direction for brand including the development and execution of brand visual language in all communications.

• Collaborates with brand team to evolve and manage overall communication strategy (visual and brand voice).

• Provides creative direction and leadership for all projects with internal design team and external agencies while ensuring projects are delivered accurately and on time.

• Lead creative development and execution of Marketing tactical plans - channels include in-store, email, social media, website, digital, local store marketing, promotions, packaging, and others to be defined.

• Plan and manages processes and practices to ensure that programs are aligned with brand business goals and objectives.

• Executes tactical plans to meet targets for budgets, project schedules and deadlines.

• Leads team to determine cost-savings opportunities and implements appropriate changes.

• Lead and manages in-café merchandising execution and own merchandising guidelines.

• Lead brand communications between Support Center, Cafes and Franchisees.

• Work with Director of Brand Engagement and Category Management team to execute and support Marketing calendar.

• Manage website design.

• Lead, inspire and develop team (2 Graphic Designers, Creative Services Manager) reporting to the position.

• Provide quality control over concepts and projects.

Requirements:

• Strong creative competency, experience and sensibility

• Strong project management skills and the ability to multi-task

• Strategic agility

• Initiative and results orientation

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to supervise and train employees

• Passion, integrity and energy

Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal & presentation skills

• Minimum 7 years marketing leadership with creative and branding focus

• Experience with managing and leading direct reports and cross functional team members

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Computer skills: Excel, MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint

Working at ABP:

5 day work weeks

7 week structured training program

Career growth opportunities

Competitive salary, weekly pay

Quarterly bonuses

Benefits:

Medical insurance/Dental insurance/Vision insurance

Pet insurance Employee Referral Programs

Vacation Time

401K Workplace banking and much, much more!