ABOUT THE COMPANY
The Silver Crystal Group is a multi-divisional company that specializes in jersey & apparel customization. We deliver solutions in apparel customization and inventory optimization through retail experience technology. We have been customizing jerseys for professional sports organizations for over 25 years. Our clients include the majority of the teams from MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, CFL, MLS, as well as 14 NCAA schools, major retailers throughout North America
Graphic Designer | Digital Marketing Specialist
We are seeking an Experienced Graphic Designer and Media Advertising Specialist to Join our Digital Marketing team.
The Silver Crystal Group is an apparel and Jersey customization company whose focus is connecting consumers with authentic products through retail experience technology. Globally recognized for their Fanzones.com and Coolhockey.com divisions they are the driving force behind the letters, numbers, and Jersey customization of nearly every major sports franchise. From NBA, NHL, NFL MLB, through to some of the most recognized NCAA colleges throughout the USA, we lead the market in Jersey customization by delivering solutions in customization and inventory optimization. Chances are, if you own a customized Jersey, you have seen our work firsthand! Don’t miss this opportunity to join our team and this exciting and growing organization that gets to work with some of the most iconic names in sports.
The successful candidate will use their digital skills-set to conceive create design all digital marketing collateral for ongoing projects across multiple divisions, teams, sports, and marketing channels. This is a hands-on role that requires creativity, insight, and imagination to design impactful marketing assets, while managing multiple projects, deliverables, and timelines. The Graphic Designer & Digital Marketing Specialist is responsible for creating marketing content that delivers a consistent corporate brand, the brand aesthetic, and the divisional marketing strategy, this includes designing creative assets for social media and all digital advertising platforms.
The marketing team at Silver Crystal is a tight knit group focused on creating purpose driven, goal oriented, successful campaigns that pop, we dream and execute as a team supporting each other to a common goal. The successful candidate will be passionate about sports, jerseys, players, and teams as well as art and graphic design. You will understand our products, our value proposition, the sports industry, and will help create digital content and deployment solutions that speak to our audience. All this, while successfully managing two key priorities creative quality and business timelines. Are you up for the challenge?
We prefer that you have experience in a marketing department or advertising agency, however graphic design talent and a firm understanding of deploying time sensitive digital assets is the key.
Experience in Motion Graphics is also preferred so if you have experience in editing videos and basic animation skills, we strongly encourage you to apply!
Your Role & Responsibilities:
Conceive & create visual campaign assets for deployment across multiple platforms including social web and search ensuring quality & consistency throughout each campaign.
Design & manage static and motion graphics for digital deployment across all platforms
Conceive & create graphic mockups, storyboards, and concepts for videos and motion graphic projects.
Create and utilize campaign templates for efficiency and consistency across all platforms including email templates, web, social, and digital ad-packs.
Design and develop of digital sales materials with visual storytelling including product value proposition and call-to-action
Initiate and manage digital creative projects and campaigns from concept, deployment, analysis, and post-mortem review.
Photography experience and photo-editing is a huge bonus.
Experience using digital cameras, studio lighting, post-production editing, compositing, and photo manipulation in photoshop as well as lightroom.
Design and redesign campaigns with a purpose using analytics and testing tools to help you make data-driven decisions for design landing pages layouts and CTA’s and campaign design.
Your Qualifications
Proven digital marketing graphic design experience
A strong portfolio of illustration, graphic design, or other digital design mediums.
Experience using graphic design software and digital art technology (such as InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, After Effects)
Familiarity with digital advertising and social platforms and digital advertising technology (such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Mailchimp, Shopify, Google Ads, Bing, Microsoft, Yahoo, or others)
Attention to detail and a keen eye for design aesthetic.
Great communication skills and the ability to manage quality and timelines across multiple projects
Strong organization skills, you take methodical and experienced approach to handling of files, revisions, and changes.
The ability to take constructive criticism, suggestions, and ideas from your teammates and convert that feedback to successful revisions in your creative process.
Most important quality is that you are a team player. We succeed together.
TO APPLY: PLEASE SEND RESUME, COVER LETTER & ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO careers@silvercrystalgroup.com
Experienced Web Application Developer – Job Description
Working as part of a team, this role will be responsible for leading software projects from design stage to implementation, as well as being involved in implementing and supporting routine deployments of client applications that are customized to individual requirements. We are looking for a mature individual with several years’ experience, who has a well-rounded understanding of building web-based applications and can hit the ground running.
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TO APPLY: PLEASE SEND RESUME, COVER LETTER & ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO careers@silvercrystalgroup.com
ROLE OVERVIEW – Manager, Inventory Planning & Analysis
The Manager, Inventory Planning & Analysis will be responsible for analyzing and forecasting product demand (based on working closely with Sales Team’s forecasts), developing and owning strategies and financial plans, and working with operations’ capacity constraints in determining make vs buy.
You must be strong in understanding sports and how to adapt well-known retail planning tools into a business that is currently demand-driven for Letters & Numbers by Players & teams. This is a new key position in the company and has the unique opportunity to fundamentally affect change, increase sales and improve profitability.
You will lead, direct, and set guidelines with key members of Sales, Manufacturing Operations, Finance, buying, analytics and marketing. You will be a key participant in the development and execution of Merchandise plans, including sales, planning, forecasting, product buys, sell thru and promotion planning. We are a company in the midst of rapid growth and we are driving change from what is largely administrative/manual/spreadsheet processes to one driven by automated systems.
Successful individuals will have strong and demonstrable merchandise planning experience in fashion, possess strong analytical skills, exude creative problem solving, and be able to keep pace with an environment that changes daily. Ability to handle and make sense of massive amounts of data and sku’s is essential. To develop a completely new planning process from the ground up using excel and leveraging other tools and processes; after which, we would then look to implement other software tools to automate and assist. A passion for sports is essential.
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TO APPLY: PLEASE SEND RESUME, COVER LETTER & ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO careers@silvercrystalgroup.com