Coordinator, Creative Operations

Four Seasons Hotels

  • Toronto, ON
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 13 days ago
About Four Seasons:Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.About the location: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.Coordinator, Creative OperationsThe Coordinator, Creative Operations will work with both the Creative Production Manager and the Director, Creative Operations to support the FS Strategic priorities for 2024 and beyond.They will support key Creative initiatives in support of the Strategic plan – such as:
  • Co-op Creative Productions
  • Property Productions
  • Integrated Campaign Planning (ICP) Campaigns; Global and Lines of Business
  • They will also support the brand’s evolving photography and video strategy, content strategy, brand guideline maintenance and creative production. They will also work closely with the Brand Strategy division and other stakeholders across the organization to ensure consistency of content across guest touchpoints.
Additionally, they will have an opportunity to lead and support the organization of:
  • Creative Daily intake process – trafficking and resolving cross-functional, day to day requests through the creative team.
  • Social Media support for properties – support media team addressing social content needs for the properties.
  • Print and digital editorial strategy and execution
This role is based in Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Toronto Corporate Office, with split reporting to both the Director Creative Operations and Creative Production Manager. This role involves interactions with both internal and external stakeholders at various levels.Key Areas of Responsibility:Four Seasons Magazine
  • Lead project facilitator, managing both internal and external stakeholders on development and priorities for magazine themes/content
  • Partner with external magazine publisher on editorial strategy and development of the award-winning Four Seasons Magazine print and digital publications.
  • Coordinate the magazine output at every stage from strategic development, content ideation, and creative reviews until execution and delivery.
  • Manage content calendar updates and communicate accordingly with cross-functional teams
  • Consult on monthly insights and reporting documentation (in partnership with external partner)
  • Brief agency on digital magazine needs and on a monthly basis
  • Review and provide feedback on all digital editorial content monthly and print content quarterly (~40 digital magazine articles and 4 print magazine issues yearly)
  • Collaborate with Elite Manager and Public Relations team on the development of Alejandro’s letter for the quarterly development of the print magazine and internal launch
Photography & Video Production
  • Support the Creative Production Manager and team to coordinate pre- and post-production materials and schedules for brand photography and video shoots
  • Support the Creative Production Manager and team on recruitment and training of global creative roster
  • Maintain photo and video guidelines, in partnership with the Creative Production Manager and cross-functional partners
  • Collaborate with Creative, Strategy, Campaign Planning and Line of Business teams during campaign and content production ideation, bridging strategy and creative throughout the entire process from brief to execution.
  • Support Creative Production Manager on facilitating review cycles with internal and external stakeholders
  • Collaborate with Creative Production Manager, the Manager Marketing Planning and Operations and campaign leads, on the development of campaign wrap reports and providing creative insights to impact future work.
  • Review photo tagging and YouTube scorecard, partnering with creative team on monthly review/coaching sessions, as applicable.
  • Manage any scoring feedback and liaison with YouTube Consultant (as needed)
  • Manage any feedback on image tagging and liaise with Image Library Consultant (as needed).
  • Prepare YouTube, Google and Meta submissions for global brand assets, as applicable, inclusive but not limited to: collection of assets, preparation of social proposal documents, and collaboration with design and copywriting internal resources
  • Manage all image (and video) sourcing and cropping needs for all internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to: brand initiatives, commercial presentations, brand campaigns, and requests for all commercial team members, and properties, as applicable (please note the range of activity on this can be 30 minutes – 25 hours/a week.)
  • Coordinate updates to legal rights and releases in partnership with corporate Legal team
Creative Strategy, Reviews, and Creative Operations (Project Management)
  • Ongoing support of the Creative team to reinforce the Four Seasons Brand Foundation Guidelines, the Enduring Creative Idea (ECI), and brand visual and tonality standards. Working closely with Brand Strategy, PR, social media, Lines of Business and CRM teams to maintain quality and consistency of the brand storytelling.
  • Manage relationship with internal CRM team. Collaborate on strategic priorities for CRM outputs, yearly content planning, and each individual email development.
  • Review all always on and campaign focused email communications, global homepage updates and FS.com landing pages, global and regional touchpoints (including paid, photo and video assets), collateral reviews, etc. for brand fit
  • Support the Manager Marketing Planning and Operations, on new global yearly planning on all brand and line of business campaigns, standing up all creative content through CRM, FS.com, paid and organic content and social copy (develop social and ad copy as needed), static banner ads, etc. (all paid and owned channels)
  • Support Director, Creative Operations to assign and facilitate the completion of creative requests through a centralized intake platform.
  • Manage creative consultants’ work and time on lines of business and brand projects (as needed)
Finance and Administrative Support
  • Track invoices and coordinate budget forecasts throughout the year.
  • Support SOW reviews through to execution
  • Work with Creative, and cross-functional teams to develop creative presentations as required
  • Coordinate quarterly distribution of Four Seasons Magazine
  • Lead and manage consulting agreements, production agreements, MSAs as needed for the team
Additional Financial Support
  • Support the management of the yearly Ad budget for all areas of focuses: multilingual content management, FS.com support, digital content marketing, print magazine, Brand video Production
Desired Skills:
  • Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
  • Proficiency with InDesign and Photoshop mandatory; working knowledge of Adobe Premiere an asset
  • Ability to set and support workback and production schedules
  • Strong organization and project management skills
  • Knowledge of business and marketing practices highly desirable
  • Ability to work well under pressure and to handle several deadlines at the same time
  • Ability to work unsupervised, to take initiative to solve problems or deal with unexpected issues and follow-up to completion
  • A strong team player
  • Ability to deal professionally, courteously, and effectively, with all levels of management and other internal and external business contacts
  • Productive self-starter who is flexible, cooperative, and receptive to challenge
Experience, Education and Professional Qualifications:
  • Post-secondary degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, creative industries, or business
  • Minimum of 3 years’ work or relevant educational experience in a brand/content marketing role preferred
  • Understanding of print and online editorial planning, content strategy and production, and creative briefing and review processes.
  • Experience with luxury and/or global hospitality brands an asset.
This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-HybridFour Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.

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