Job Description

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada\'s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.Ready to Make an impact?The Creative Asset Manager handles everything related to marketing assets, including acquiring, cataloging, and protecting them. You will be responsible for coordinating and maintaining all brands assets as well as maximizing the value of the DAM by promoting its benefits and effectively streamlining the ways of working, across several systems and departments. This could include video and audio files, pictures, creative work, artwork, etc. It could encompass financial data, intellectual property, or marketing materials.Here\'s where you\'ll be focusing:Creative Asset Managers, as you might imagine, are responsible for handling an organization\'s marketing assets. This could include ensuring digital files are named and stored appropriately in a digital library. It also typically entails developing strategies for managing these assets. But the role also entails managing how these digital assets interact with employees and the public, including keeping file permissions and usage rights up to date.
You will utilize a digital asset management platform to manage files or other digital assets. Think of the Asset Manager as a librarian for digital files - but that is only a part of the role. The role is highly collaborative; you will work with marketing departments, banners teams, martech, media, IT, end users, and other interdepartmental teams.
You will manage more than just the technology, also the people and processes that interact with our creative assets.
People

• If there is a major technology rollout, you may be involved in engaging stakeholders to contribute to the success of the rollout.
• You will train staff once the technology has been deployed.
• You will act as a change manager for technology implementation, serving as advocate for both the people using the tool and the tool itself.
• You will also track how people interact with files or the technology; this could be internal or external users.

Processes

• Serve at the intersection where people and digital tools come together so you should have a keen eye for workflows and how to improve them.
• Develop processes, test them, document what happened, and wash, rinse, repeat as necessary.
• Responsible for researching and helping implement new technologies that streamline legacy platforms and processes.

Technology

• Tracks user adoption trends as well as consumer engagement external to the organization
• Track and validate metadata, work on taxonomy or tagging, or engage in training with end users, in addition to potentially managing video or other graphics files.
• Map out workflows and manage them on behalf of the organization.
• The role includes tracking and monitoring the security of files, along with developing security policies to keep data safe.
• Workflows and processes that leverage automation, helping human beings to use technology to work smarter.
• Help manage the technology itself and the daily interactions employees have within digital frameworks.

What you have to offer:You must have excellent people skills. You will be a technology evangelist, but also people pleasers. You will understand the user experience and work hard to make it better.
Some of the most important skills needed to do the job include:

• A huge love of technology
• A huge patience for people
• Excellent communication skills
• Extreme attention to detail
• Meticulous data-driven nature
• Flexibility and energy
• A love of change
• Customer service skills
• Programming skills
• Analytical yet creative
• Process-oriented
• Consistency in tracking activity and measuring outcomes
• The ability to prioritize, organize, and implement
• Leadership and coaching skills
• Organized and well structured
• Project management skills
• Data entry skills

You job is to find ways to effectively manage the company data while saving time and costs.
You must know the Microsoft Office Suite, and project management sites like Jira or Basecamp.
You must understand DAM and CMS platforms, ADA, metadata, taxonomy, and SEO. You must also have knowledge of digital rights management and advertising rights managementAt Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better - physically, financially and emotionally.Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

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