Creative Lead

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #174262 - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

 

The Creative Lead, CP Skin Health US is a versatile, dynamic, and highly resourceful creative powerhouse responsible for shaping and protecting the visual and textual expression of both EltaMD and PCA SKIN in the US market. Reporting directly to the VP of Marketing CPSH US, this critical role streamlines traditional creative agency and production capabilities into a single, agile leadership function.

 

As a hybrid talent, you possess the multi-disciplinary sensibilities to oversee and execute art direction, creative production, and copywriting as needed. You will serve as the central creative engine for the organization—supporting the core Brand Management, Omni-Channel Demand Generation (ODG), and Digital Customer Experience/CRM teams, while seamlessly scaling to support cross-functional team needs in Professional Retail Marketing and Digital Commerce. Partnering closely with the Global Senior Brand Design Manager, you will translate global brand visions into high-impact, compliant, and culturally resonant US assets, balancing direct creation with strategic agency management, freelance orchestration, and cutting-edge enterprise AI tools.

 

Responsibilities:

US Creative Execution & Vision

• Global-to-Local Translation: Partner closely with the Global Senior Brand Design Manager to adapt, localized, and upscale global brand visions into the US market while fiercely maintaining the creative integrity and visual identity guidelines of EltaMD and PCA SKIN.

• Hands On Cross-Disciplinary Creator-Creative expert in design, structural copywriting, and creative production management for US market needs.

• Elevated Aesthetic Standards: Bring a deep, intuitive sensibility for prestige beauty, clinical skincare, or medical aesthetics, ensuring all visual assets and messaging strike the perfect balance between clinical efficacy and premium consumer desire.

 

Multi-Functional Cross-Team Support

• For Brand & Pro Advocacy: Develop premium visual assets, medical congress materials, advisory board presentations, and packaging/collateral adaptations that reflect the brands' professional clinical backing.

• For ODG & the 1+N+X Engine: Collaborate with the Brand Experience Managers to support the design of agile, high-volume social assets (specifically for TikTok and Instagram) and digital ad creative, feeding optimization loops with rapid creative iterations based on performance insights.

• For CRM & Digital Customer Experience: Deliver clean, high-converting visual and copy layouts for automated lifecycle email journeys, SMS campaigns, and loyalty program assets.

• For Cross Functional Partners (Professional Affairs, Pro Retail Marketing & Digital Commerce): Partner with commercial teams outside of marketing to develop professional marketing materials for internal / external needs and thumb-stopping digital shelf assets, e-tailer banners.

• Support for Internal & External Events 

 

Creative Resource Coordination & Technology Integration

• Freelance & Agency Management: Serve as the master coordinator and primary liaison for external creative agencies and an active roster of freelance designers, copywriters, and video editors. Curate and scale this network to handle project overflow and specialized production demands (supported by monday.com project management tool)

• AI Tool Integration: Champion the ethical and efficient use of enterprise AI creative suites (e.g., Canva, Google Su