Brand Designer (Creative Design)

About Us:
Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading, vertically integrated manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, foodservice, and e-commerce channels.

Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience. By combining industry-leading talent, cutting-edge equipment, and a vertically integrated supply chain, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers--first and fast.

Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen's®, Dutch Bros® beverages and Nurri™, our better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages - and about building a team that's just as energized. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

Our Core Values:

Diversity and Inclusion at Trilliant and Horseshoe:
We believe talented, great people are the building blocks of our success. We believe in finding the right people, with the right attitude, and providing them with opportunities to excel.

Position Overview:
As a brand designer at Trilliant, you'll play a key role in shaping and elevating our brand(s) through a variety of creative projects focused around CPG. From designing digital creative for e-commerce platforms, in-store POS, social graphics, support photoshoot coordination, packaging and more. You will work closely with the Dir. of Creative, brand team, e-commerce, sales and commercialization + project management teams to elevate the total brand experience across multiple formats. This role offers an exciting opportunity to have an impact on shaping new and established brands within CPG.

Responsibilities:
· Keeping people at heart, drive compelling creative strategies and visual solutions that bring the brand narrative to life
· Support the Dir. Of Creative in building out brand identity systems
· Maintain and evolve our partner brands, ensuring to bring to life the brand vision, emotional connection and story to consumers
· Strategically integrate creative efforts with an omni channel strategy in partnership with our partner brand
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and consistent brand experience across multiple touchpoints
· Deliver creative concepts and digital assets to support integrated marketing campaigns including paid media, social media, packaging, in-store POS, website and more
· Manage multiple projects and priorities from ideation to execution
· Manage vendor partnerships maintaining expectations, timelines and creative excellence
· Get deeply integrated into the brand(s) to build understanding of the purpose, vision and experience to develop and bring to life within creative executions
· Develop and lead creative pitches to leadership and external partners
· Consult and provide creative guidance to external partners and internal stakeholders
· Independently drive creative exploration and evolution to find new ways to drive engagement
· Inspire, challenge and collaborate across the creative team to build community, innovative thinking and endless creative growth


Qualifications:
· A Bachelor's degree or associate's degree in Graphic Design, Graphic Communications, Multimedia Design or User Experience Design is preferred
· 6-8 years of design experience is required; 3-5 years CPG experience required; Agency experience preferred
· Knowledge in product photography is a plus
· Knowledge in motion/video is a plus
· Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate
· Excellent knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
· Impressive portfolio, demonstrating dynamic work
· Ability to build strong working relationships internally and externally
· Ability to effectively problem-solve, research and analyze information
· Strong will in driving creative excellence


Hours, Location and Pay:
We offer a competitive base pay rate and comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees. This role works standard business hours Monday - Friday at our Little Chute, WI manufacturing facility.

Physical and Mental Demands:
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, hear, use hands to type data, use a personal computer and telephone. This employee may occasionally have to operate business machines and lift and/move up to 50 pounds.
· Specific vision abilities required in this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
· Mental demands include multi-tasking, decision making, problem solving, comparing, copying, computing, compiling, analyzing, coordinating, and synthesizing data.
· Potential for exposure to chemicals, heights, loud noises, mechanical equipment, wet environments, and other potential hazards exists.

Safety Statement:
At Trilliant and Horseshoe, safety is every employee's first responsibility. We expect all employees to adhere to all safety practices, have the moral courage to stop other individuals from performing unsafe acts, and immediately report unsafe conditions.

Disclosures:
· The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
· Responsible for following food safety/regulatory policies and procedures, executing responsibilities as identified in standard operating procedures, and reporting food safety/regulatory concerns to the Production or Quality Manager.
· Trilliant Food & Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage Company are Drug Free Workplaces. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
· Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage participate in the E-Verify process.
· EEO/AA including Vets and Disabled
· If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at HR@trilliantfood.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
· Trilliant Food and Nutrition and Horseshoe Beverage are Equal Opportunity Employers.
· The principles of the OECD and UN have been taken into consideration and used as guidance in our human rights practices and procedures.