Director, Creative Services

HELP US BRING THE GIFT OF HEALTH TO LIFE.

Working at Pharmavite is an experience like no other. With a focus on complete nutrition for all, each endeavor is urgent and every day counts. You'll have the opportunity to work on the #1 selling national vitamin and supplement brand, Nature Made, as well as an exciting portfolio of other products that are shaping the future of the healthy living industry. Consumer-driven innovation, high quality products and a promising portfolio, all driven by a team with a shared sense of purpose -- that's Pharmavite. Join us to bring the gift of health to life.

The Creative Director believes in the power of creativity to shift minds and build emotional connection with consumers. They will work closely with cross functional partners to raise the bar on Nature Made’s creative excellence and enabling and empowering their team to do their best work. They bring vision, have deep brand and design experience and lead with strategic orientation. As we establish an elevated brand narrative and aesthetic, the Creative Director will serve as a key business partner to the Brand Marketing and Brand Activation teams to set the vision for the long term internal creative organization that helps to set the creative standard for marketing work from brand activations and integrated marketing campaigns.

Key Responsibilities:

• Creative Leadership: Inspire, generate, and develop creative work grounded in the intersection of human and product insight. Enable creative work that is channel specific yet deeply integrated across all touchpoints.

• Cross Functional Collaboration: Operate as the Creative Business Partner to cross functional colleagues across marketing, sales, innovation, R&D and operations stakeholders to translate consumer insights and marketing objectives into creative strategies that drive sales and drives brand equity.

• Operational Rigor: Own end-to-end creative workflow by managing and prioritizing resources inclusive of process, tools and stakeholder engagement to meet and balance competing needs from a variety of stakeholders.

• Team Development: Create a scalable, high performing ecosystem of internal and external resources that are grounded in the intersection of consumer and product insight and elevates creative product aligned to brand and business objectives.

• Manage department deliverables, timelines, and budgets.

The ideal candidate for this role will be intellectually curious and an excellent communicator. They must thrive working as a change agent and driving for better by having a constant pulse on consumers, a strong business acumen, bringing fresh thinking and perspectives to an established team.  This role requires a blend of creative, analytical and intuitive skills, an understanding of marketing and consumer insights and an ability to influence and lead cross functional teams.

Critical Success Factors:

• A creative visionary with extensive knowledge of strategies and creative methods across a range of disciplines and channels.

• A pragmatic business partner that can adeptly balance pushing boundaries to unlock opportunity while staying grounded in executional realities to deliver breakthrough business results.

• A change agent with experience in organization transformation and a demonstrated ability to develop talent as a leader in an organization. You operate at an executive level with the ability to both mentor and manage.

• Comfortable working cross-functionally—especially with Brand, Creative, Editorial, and Marketing partner with strong organizational skills, keen eye for detail, and ability to manage multiple projects at once.

• You thrive in a fast-paced environment where deadlines, priorities, and initiatives change frequently—Empowered and Iterative are core values.

• Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to clearly and articulately explain your rationale and evoke excitement with your recommendations.

To take on these challenges, you will need to have:

• College Degree and MBA preferred.

• Multidisciplinary experience across big idea generation, creative design, packaging production and process development and optimization.

• 10+ years experience in brand creative and digital direction—both agency and in-house experience a plus with 5-7 years of managing a creative service department.

Required Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Results-oriented self-starter with track record of excellent results in a fast-growth environment.

• Creative experience at a CPG or VMS company ideal.

• Skilled at promoting collaboration and driving problem resolution across all l