Team Leader
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**Team Leader**

* Mountville, PA, USA

* Full-time

* Shift: 1st

**Company Description**

**WHO WE ARE:**

**Clipper Magazine** (a Vericast company), founded in 1983, is a leader in **print & digital advertising solutions** for hyper-local businesses all over the country. We mail on a monthly to semi-monthly basis, to over 451 markets across 22 states. Each edition is filled with money-saving local deals and coupons as well as major regional and national advertisers.

**Job Description**

The Clipper Magazine Team Leader will oversee and guide the daily operations of an art production team to meet time, cost, and quality goals in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. The Team Leader will work closely with sales, finance, and other internal shareholders to meet these objectives while delivering high customer satisfaction.

The successful candidate will drive results using established metrics to manage performance, will create strong relationships across multiple functional areas, promote the growth of individual team members, and participate in process improvement projects to drive the organization forward.

**Key Duties/Responsibilities:**

1. Lead team and/or department that oversees a portion of Art Production's administrative, creative, customer service, and support functions.

2. Establish and review key metrics; establish goals and procedures to meet time, cost, and quality goals; monitor productivity levels versus goals; provide ongoing coaching and training to ensure teams continued success.

3. Collaborate across departments and assume the leadership of projects, as needed, in planning for near, intermediate, and long-term strategies to ensure the continued growth and adaptation of a dynamically evolving company; specifically, ensure Art Operations and Production Operations processes and procedures are in alignment.

4. Assumes a close working relationship with Sales Managers and the sales force to establish and address weekly page/product counts, closing strategies, timeline concerns, contract issues and prep week updates while being the primary bridge between outside sales and the internal production team.

**Employees are responsible for supporting and complying with internal and external audits, to include providing information, performing assigned tasks to ensure compliance, and preparing and maintaining evidence that key duties identified as internal controls have been performed. All employees are responsible for supporting and complying with safety and security policies to promote a healthy working environment.**

**Clipper Magazine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.**

**Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting the Human Resources Department.**

**Qualifications**

**Education & Knowledge:**

4-year business degree or comparable education or experience

3-5 years management or comparable experience, art or production environment preferred

Must be proficient in Microsoft Office 365, specifically Word and Excel

Basic understanding of direct mail and print industries

Basic knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite preferred

**Experience/Skills/Abilities:**

Strong character and leadership qualities to lead and motivate others

Collaborative management style

Demonstrated leadership and vision in managing projects or initiatives

Strong business acumen to understand and support company goals

Ability to communicate professionally and diplomatically both verbally (face to face and phone) and in writing (email)

Strong interpersonal skills (verbal/non-verbal communication, listening, negotiation, problem-solving, decision-making and assertiveness)

A demonstrated commitment to high professional ethical standards

Excels at operating in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment

High level of organization to facilitate multi-tasking

Persuasive with details and facts

Delegate responsibilities effectively

Conflict resolution skills

Decisive, with refined problem-solving skills

Excellent analytical skills

Excellent customer service skills

**Supervisory Responsibility:** 14-16 Direct Reports

Responsible for all employees on one self-directed work team or one or more shared services teams.

**Communication & Contacts (Internal/External):**

**Position requires regular and repeated written and verbal (both email and phone, inbound and outbound) communication with internal and external contacts, who are primarily English speaking.**

Communicates internally with Leadership: Manager, Operations, Manager, Creative and Quality and Director, Production Operations

Communicates internally with Peers: Team Leaders, Creative Specialists and Managers of Non-Production Departments

Communicates internally with Others: all members in Production, Print Production, Finance, Total Loyalty Solutions, Merchant Support and Deal Review

Communicates to Sales Managers and Sales Force

Communicates externally to Customers and Vendors

**Physical Requirements/Working Conditions:**

Position will be located in the Mountville, PA office with some ability to work remotely. Occasional travel may be required.

**Additional Information**

Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K matching and generous PTO allowance. A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers!

**WHO WE ARE:**

At Vericast, we dont just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our community. Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. In addition, Vericast will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities by contacting us at: ...@valassis.com. EEO is the law. To review your rights under Equal Employment Opportunity please visit: .

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Team Leader

* Mountville, PA, USA

* Full-time