Careers at Kempenfelt Group
At Kempenfelt Group, we pride ourselves in our ability to meet the challenges of the future with leadership and creativity. It is the quality of our people combined with advanced technology that allows us to achieve our goals eagerly looking ahead. We are constantly seeking out potential creative professionals who thrive in a fast paced environment.
Successful candidates will have exceptional communication and teamwork skills and will be unafraid of stretching their talents in a diverse learning environment.
email: careers@kempenfeltgroup.com
fax: 705.722.4980
JOB POSTINGS
Wide Format Account Manager
Kempenfelt Group is looking for a high energy, experienced account manager to complement our recent expansion into wide format printing. This position will concentrate on selling POP displays, posters, banners, wraps, and floor/window graphics. In addition the successful candidate will also be expected to promote our other printing and fulfillment services to their wide format accounts. If you are a personable, outgoing, knowledgeable sales professional with a positive mentality and a true desire to succeed, we want to talk with you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish a professional working relationship with clients and develop a core understanding of their unique business needs.
- Achieve target revenue and gross profit contribution.
- Aggressively and strategically prospect for new business opportunities.
- Negotiate and position deals to ensure successful closes and high win rates.
- Build and monitor sales pipeline to ensure continuous population and movement of near and long-term opportunities.
- Demonstrate comfort with industry knowledge and easily integrate and apply these perspectives to solve business needs.
- Demonstrate the ability to lead, manage or enlist the support of others in the pursuit of business goals.
- Stay current with market and industry developments.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in the wide/large format digital print business.
- Proven track record of growing sales revenue and meeting budgets.
- Strong understanding of the print industry.
- Prospecting and business development experience.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- University or College Degree.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong relationship building and consultative skills.
Manager of Creative Services
Are you a dynamic leader that understands how design and data relate to all types of media from print to the online and the social space? Do you have experience managing major projects and guiding a creative team from concept to finished product? Do you have excellent communication, networking and relationship building skills?
If your answers are yes then we have a great role for you at Kempenfelt Group!
As a recognized leader in print innovation, Kempenfelt specializes in creating and delivering effective marketing and communication solutions for reputable brands across Canada. We are a forward thinking company that offers a diversified product line including graphic design, multi-channel marketing programs, direct mail and data management, web to print enterprise solutions and offset and digital printing. We offer exceptional service to our clients, great internal support to our employees and have the financial and technical resources to grow and prosper.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise, direct, mentor and inspire all members of the design team.
- Be the “go to” person in our company as it relates to all design matters for our sales and customer service teams.
- Establish a professional working relationship with our clients and develop a core understanding of their unique business needs.
- Collaborate with the data and interactive team to leverage client’s data in a creative way.
- Lead the sales effort of design services and be the chief liaison between our clients and the design team.
- Create design estimates and proposals and ensure projects stay within budget.
- Maintain and balance the work schedule and delegate projects accordingly.
- Implement and maintain high quality and performance standards of the team.
- Procure and organize copy writing, translation and photo shoots when required.
- Stay current with market and industry developments.
- Proactively encourage and implement a professional development program for your team and the company as a whole as it relates to design.
“Must Have” Requirements:
- University degree or College diploma in design.
- Over 10 years of design experience with 3 years of management experience.
- Proven track record of creating original design solutions.
- Expertise in Adobe Suite CS4+, QuarkXpress, web development such as HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Flash
- Experience working with a Project Management software
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
If you’ve got the talent, drive, experience and passion please submit your resume to
hr@kempenfeltgroup.com
We thank all candidates for applying, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All submissions will be held in confidence.