Digital Asset Management Specialist

What we need:

Our in-house Global Brand & Creative Team is looking for a hyper-organized, hungry strategic thinker with outstanding asset management skills and a passion for “owning” and developing processes and systems. In our hybrid work environment, you’ll enjoy career-enhancing opportunities to solve business problems and make your mark across a wide and ever-evolving range of assets. Working closely with the Creative, Marcom, Merchandising, Digital and Content Management Teams. You’ll be asked to work with people and teams around the world to collaborate, organize branded assets and own projects across the Brady global portfolio of brands. This position will report to the Creative Director/Creative Lead and requires less than 5-10% travel for customer visits and/or educational opportunities.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own the management of our DAM with a passion and high level of acumen across internal teams, stakeholders and external vendors.
• Organize our DAM as a single point of contact to incorporate best practices and present new ideas to accommodate the needs of teams and stakeholders across the business.
• Execute a variety of DAM admin tasks including, but not limited to: access approvals, stakeholder onboarding, brand asset management, expiring/cleanup of assets.
• Lead pre and post production photo shoot tasks — including image uploads, image processing, file naming, meta data processing, and communication of asset status across all brands globally. Streamline, clean up, and filter the DAM for internal teams + distributors as needed.
• Organize data to run insights/reports/analytics reports, asset tracking, dashboard management, version updates, asset replacement, assessment/communication.
• Work with Product Content Management, Marcom and Merchandising teams to add metadata — and optimize for new and existing images, across all brands.
• Facilitate collaboration and “direct traffic” to connect all relevant teams and stakeholders across the business to be a single point of contact for global brand asset management to move projects forward, drive global collaboration, vendor relationships, etc.
• Establish global consistency/best practices across the organization to enhance and elevate the DAM experience.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• BA / BS Degree in Advertising, Communications, English, Design or a related field of study or similar work experience.
• 2+ years DAM experience (preferably with experience in Widen/Acquia and/or STEP).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office — PowerPoint, Word, but particularly  Excel).
• Bonus — proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Bonus — design and photography sensibilities.
• Experience with digital asset management, technical projects and search technologies + Skilled data entry with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong understanding of databases and media asset organization with ability to maintain high standards of asset management and exercise quality control.
• Ability to prioritize work within deadlines and set realistic delivery expectations.
• Strong organizational, creative problem-solving and time-management skills (with experience using project management software) and  the ability to take projects from start to finish with minimal supervision.
• Strong understanding of databases and media asset organization with the ability to establish and enforce standards.
• Familiar with digital accessibility standards, metadata copy and file management structures.
• The drive to raise the bar for global organization at Brady through a curious approach, a resilient mindset and a contagious enthusiasm

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