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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.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• New Development Initiatives:
  • Working with other team members, will identify and take part in discussions of functional requirements for new functionality / enhancements.
  • Under direction from management, taking functional requirements and technical specifications and planning out development tasks.
  • Writing code and leading QA / debugging activities.

• Support / Enhancement Activities for Existing Frameworks:
  • Working with other team members, will identify and document updates / enhancements / structural improvements to currently active deployments, as well as provide technical support for issue resolution in a timely manner.
  • Writing code and QA / debugging activities.

• Implementing Customized Applications for New Clients
  • Follow established deployment protocol to configure and deploy a wide network of customer applications.
  • Testing / debugging of custom software installations.

• General Responsibilities:
  • Overall responsibility for authoring and maintaining our technical documentation.
  • Will detail all task descriptions and status updates via the Project Management console.
  • Will post daily updates to the code repository and maintain file structures.
  • Research activities – will be involved in researching new technologies and solutions that we may wish to offer for viability.
  • Special projects – as required by management.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fluent in the English language, both written and oral.
• Strong communication skills, particularly relating to technical customer support requests.
• Post-Secondary Education in a computer programming discipline.
• 5+ years development experience with web applications.
• Expert knowledge of PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, jQuery, and other scripting / web technologies.
• Experience with VB.NET and responsive GUI’s (using Bootstrap, or other frameworks).
• Experience in building scalable applications and multi-tenant infrastructure.
• Experience creating backend reporting interfaces.
• Experience with API’s and web services.
• Strong MS Excel (and MS office) skills.
• Experience with Photoshop and Illustrator is desirable.
• Strong sense of professionalism and enthusiasm and ability to multitask.
• Experienced at planning and leading development tasks, strong time management focus, and able to work independently in a disciplined manner.
• Diplomatic nature and adept at troubleshooting and issue resolution.

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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own sales and gross margin analysis, providing clear analysis and reporting to leadership
• Create financial demand, sales and OTB plans
• Maintain OTB inventory management, which requires a strong internal partnership and review of sell-thru, while identifying opportunities for reorders and mitigating out of stock risks
• Understand and manage inventory across corporate team orders, 3^rd party ecommerce channels, as well as the company’s own retail ecommerce sites.
• Review receipt flows and aged inventory to ensure the right inventory to maximize sales
• Leverage Buying and Merchandising teams to ensure strategies align with corporate business planning, and identify additional reporting needs and process improvements
• Partner with Applications and Technology to deliver custom reporting and business reporting needs. Initiate projects with I.T. to ensure you get proper information to execute upon.
• Partner with eCommerce Merchant to link financial performance, promo’s and markdowns
• Early identification of item code requirements for new Fonts / Kits / Namebars, etc.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Five plus years of experience as an eCommerce Planner
• Two plus years of managing and mentoring a team of direct reports
• Proven experience with Inventory Control, Allocation, Merchandising, Demand Forecasting, Financial Planning and Analysis
• Excellent Excel & analytical skills, strong aptitude with numbers and HIGH volumes of data
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage workload and time effectively. Flexibility to shift priorities as needed
• BA|BS Degree in Finance, Business or any relevant competency
• English, additional language(s) an advantage
• Schedule of this position: Monday – Friday | Core business hours | Onsite

TO APPLY: PLEASE SEND RESUME, COVER LETTER & ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO careers@silvercrystalgroup.com