Roles and Responsibilities


Active Directory

Creation and management of directory infrastructure, both on prem and in the Cloud
Includes FSMO roles, Trusts, Kerberos KDCs, replication topology, etc.
Creation of all top-level OU hierarchies with standard sub-OUs, groups, and appropriate security permissions. This includes adding the OU Admins to the Add Computers group, Group Policy Creator Owners group, and OU Admins mail list. It also includes setting appropriate permissions on the created objects and linking of default GPOs.
Monitoring and reporting associated with the reliability and security of the domain
Use the Domain and Enterprise Admin account only for actions that require the privilege level of this account
Monitoring changes to domain root and domain controllers OU to ensure unauthorized changes do not occur
Day-to-day management of the domain controllers

SCCM

Designing, Planning, and Implementing System Center Configuration Manager
Manage Upgrades
Manage and configure User and Device collections
Deploying Operating System Images (primarily Windows 10) via SCCM OSD
Deployment of Applications and Software Updates
Deploy Client Management agents
Manage clients using Group Policy, WSUS, logon scripts, Client Push, etc.
Trouble client health
Manage and report on hardware and software inventory
Create, modify, and produce custom reporting as needed



Desired Candidate Profile

Educational & Experience Requirements:

Minimum of 10 years as an I.T. support professional
Minimum of Associates Degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Engineering, Graphic Arts or related category (Technical certification equivalent accepted)
Experience in Active Directory 2003\2008\2012.
Experienced in both Apple Macintosh and Windows Server platforms.
Ability to troubleshoot DNS as well as TCP/IP issues
Excellent English communication skills. French and/or Spanish a bonus

• Hands-on design lead and creative steward for category brands and the creative conduit for your assigned team.
• Oversee and lead the creative process from inception to artwork release.
• Interpret concept and/or brand guidelines, brand experience, packaging and retail design through to artwork release.
• Support Creative Director, Design Director in creative development for all assigned category brands.
• Art direct and design with the goal of achieving the optimal creative solutions.
• Be the creative authority for brand style guides. Adhere to style guide and extend when needed. Challenge status quo, when needed, and identify opportunities to enhance, when possible.
• Ensure accurate, consistent, and timely completion of high-quality design.
• Understand and execute artwork that adheres to legal and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain a positive and open dialogue with team members so they are fully informed throughout the project life-cycle. Set clear expectations.
• Able to contribute to and lead a kick off and pre-production meeting on the evaluation of new projects.
• Ability to prioritize workload, proactively seek answers to questions, and meet assigned deadlines.
• Create strong and effective internal partnerships and collaborate across clients and Marks/SGSco.
• Take ownership and be accountable for the quality of the work.
Required Skills:
• 5-7 years of experience in a graphic design with a focus, brand/visual identity design, packaging design and brand retail experience
• 2+ years in production design development
• A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration, Digital or related field
• Highly knowledgeable in multiple aspects of print production techniques
• Willingness and flexibility to accept direction

Agency Overview
Marks is a brand design and experience agency that is uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Fueled by our dual vantage points – embedded partners and future-forward experts – we build brand momentum to move fast, move forward, and move confidently.

As a full-service agency, our expertise extends across all facets of the branding spectrum: strategy, innovation, design, adaptation, integrated marketing communications. Together, we are 600+ people across 12 studios and 8 countries.

Marks is part of SGS & Co, a brand impact group built with the agility and inventiveness that enables our clients to thrive. Our sister company, SGS, is an integrated packaging and marketing company. Together, we shift brands to impact.

Position Overview
This position calls for a highly collaborative team member with a creative spark, sophisticated design eye, strong communication skills, passion, and self-motivation. You will be tasked with thoughtful problem-solving, that leads into high-caliber executions, informed by a strategic framework and narrative.

As Senior Designer, you will report to the Design Director, working with both the CD and Design Directors to creatively solve a client’s business problem, ensuring that solutions bring the strategy to life, successfully and on time. You will need to showcase an ability to work and collaborate within teams, as well as demonstrate the independence and resourcefulness demanded by an agile and highly dynamic agency environment.

This role specializes in brand and packaging design, ranging across an exciting spectrum of industries including CPG food and beverage, health care, beauty and personal care. You will champion the client’s brand and ensure all work is within brand guidelines, while maintaining continuity between formats, line extensions and client/vendor provided information.

Critical Skills and Behaviors
Design thinking and execution
• Generates strategic big ideas and narratives that address a specific truth about the client, industry, challenge or brief — rather than simply stylistic or trend driven executions
• Partners with and leverages Strategy and Design teams to develop focused design solutions
• Ability to develop packaging design intent production artwork files
• A strong understanding of packaging requirements such as die line (folds, scores and trims), rollovers, type height and weight, line thickness and copy safety zones
• A strong knowledge of print processes, ?nishes and separations

Independence, resourcefulness and reliability
• The ability to work in a dynamic, speed-to-market focused team environment with a minimum degree of supervision
• Demonstrates a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-it-done attitude
• Can be trusted to run with a project and see it through without micro-managing
• Is a proactive thinker and problem solver
• Helps create efficiencies and improve processes
• Creates photo and illustration briefs and art direct photo shoots and illustration development

Communicates well visually and verbally
• Confidently and simply conveys ideas and design concepts, articulating and defending rationale behind designs
• Puts together clear, succinct and intuitive client presentations
• Has strong presentation skills and an ability to engage client and sell work
• Is able to connect the “why” of designs to a strategic framework

Thriving in a collaborative space
• Values culture and teamwork over egos—must work well within a team
• Actively participates and engages in internal review meetings and brainstorming sessions

Curiosity and passion
• Lives and breathes design: gets excited to talk shop and always learn
• Keeps up with trends and seeks opportunities to grow and network outside of the office
• Hungry to share and spread the love – wants to mentor junior designers and interns


Prerequisites
• Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design or related field
• 6+ years of experience in packaging and/or brand design
• Expert fluency in design software, especially Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign
• Well-rounded portfolio showcasing excellent understanding of typography, photography, Illustration, presentation skills, sketching and design methodology
• Computer literacy, including familiarity with both iOS and Windows; fluency in Keynote, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Highly knowledgeable in multiple aspects of print production techniques

Primary focus
• Create & deliver memorable and inspiring creative solutions for the Client Brand and retailing for their products.
• Leads the implementation of design thinking and strategic visual communication integrated into the brand building and marketing campaigns. These campaigns can have online to offline brand and retail experience.
• Understands role of design and visual communications in supporting business results and develop objectives to track and measure impact of creative campaigns and retail innovations in a 3D environment.
• Create impactful presentation decks, toolkits and present confidently to internal and external partners
• Maintain key relationships with client and proactively grow creative portfolio with the Account Management team.
• Tracking and approving completed art files with the production team
• Responsible for establishing the concept and design direction and manage the entire creative process to deliver creative excellence and quality output with the Creative Team, led and guided by the Creative Director.
• Working with the creative team to adjust project goals and design revisions on the fly as necessary to adapt to changing situations to meet established schedules
• Identifying potential problems in the creative pipeline and working with the Creative Team to prevent them
• Supporting the Creative Team to keep studio executive staff, studio manager and/or account staff up to speed on
project status

Supporting tasks
• Keep up with latest branding and design, retail, digital, innovation, social and trends in advertising, retail experience and design
• Utilize experience to plan and implement effective creative processes and products
• Understand, embrace, and communicate and contribute to our Marks corporate culture
• Comparative analysis research; category knowledge, support ideas with references; lead brainstorming with Creative Director
• Staying abreast of current market and industry trends to aid in the development of cutting edge marketing, design concepts, trends and innovation for retail with the secondary goal of educating the team

Performance Management
• Meeting and exceeding client and department head expectations
• Take creative direction and turn work around quickly to meet deadlines
• Ensure client satisfaction at all levels
• Ensure all creative work is completed within time and on budget
• Supports Creative Director in retail design from instore out of store to drive omnichannel marcom


Marks is a brand design and experience agency that is uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Fuelled by our dual vantage points – embedded partners and future-forward experts – we build brand momentum to move fast, move forward, and move confidently.

As a full-service agency, our expertise extends across all facets of the branding spectrum: strategy, innovation, design, adaptation, integrated marketing communications. Together, we are 600+ people across 12 studios and 8 countries.

Marks is part of SGS & Co, a brand impact group built with the agility and inventiveness that enables our clients to thrive. Our sister company, SGS, is an integrated packaging and marketing company. Together, we shift brands to impact.

Design focused, with a solution oriented approach to every challenge. Creative and innovative, can handle the variety of projects at any given time. Responsible for inspiring, leading, and driving the visualization process, from collaborative conceptualization through final product and setting the creative quality and standards befitting of the industry.

The Art Director role is to lead conceptually of various branding, packaging, marketing, retail and digital designs for key clients covering concept, design/protoyping across the different brand touchpoints, brand experience and channels. Production Art will be handled by the production team. Retail store design and technical knowledge are required to bring experience to life in a physical environment.

The Art Director will be based in the Marks Shanghai studio reporting into the Creative Director, China.

The Art Director is required to inspire fellow team members in striving for creative excellence, innovation and place great ideas into implementation for the clients in the APAC/China. He/she will have shopper marketing, bringing online/offline experience into store design experience, able to develop executable innovation in the retail/visual merchandising and structure design experience.

Great exposure to a global client brand and working with a network of experts in APAC, China, America and Europe.

1?Create & deliver memorable and inspiring creative solutions for the Client Brand and retailing for their products.
2?Leads the implementation of design thinking and strategic visual communication integrated into the brand building and marketing campaigns. These campaigns can have online to offline brand and retail experience.
3?Understands role of design and visual communications in supporting business results and develop objectives to track and measure impact of creative campaigns and retail innovations in a 3D environment.
4? Create impactful presentation decks, toolkits and present confidently to internal and external partners
5? Maintain key relationships with client and proactively grow creative portfolio with the Account Management team, led and guided by the Creative Director.
6?Tracking and approving completed art files with the production team
7?Responsible for establishing the concept and design direction and manage the entire creative process to deliver creative excellence and quality output with the Creative Team
8?Working with the creative team to adjust project goals and design revisions on the fly as necessary to adapt to changing situations to meet established schedules
9? Identifying potential problems in the creative pipeline and working with the Creative Team to prevent them
10? Supporting the Creative Team to keep studio executive staff, studio manager and/or account staff up to speed on project status
Requirements:
1?Advertising, Communications, Retail Design degree is an advantage. Other creative disciplines will be considered.
2?6 to 9 years of relevant experience with an integrated portfolio. Background in branding, packaging design, retail design omnichannel, art direction, digital execution, and production with high level of technical craftsmanship ispreferred. Be familiar with the store set up, design development to bring experience to life in a physical environment.
3?Fluent written and spoken English, proficiency in either Mandarin, Korean, or Japanese is preferred.
4?Able to work independently from brief to production Good communication and presentation skills.
5?Team player and collaborative, mentoring and provide guidance to junior designers Able to work in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects at a time with the Creative Team Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders and to lead and nurture juniors.
6?Self-motivated, disciplined, positive, cheerful, driven, strategic-minded and a great team player.
7?Interior Design, Architectural, Product and Industrial design degree is an advantage. Other creative disciplines will be considered.
8?Expert level within the Adobe CS package (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Autocad, Sketch Up, Maya, Adobe Dimensions. Knowledge of other software, After Effects, and Animate CC would be an advantage.

Marks is a brand design and experience agency that is uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change. Fuelled by our dual vantage points – embedded partners and future-forward experts – we build brand momentum to move fast, move forward, and move confidently.

As a full-service agency, our expertise extends across all facets of the branding spectrum: strategy, innovation, design, adaptation, integrated marketing communications. Together, we are 600+ people across 12 studios and 8 countries.

Marks is part of SGS & Co, a brand impact group built with the agility and inventiveness that enables our clients to thrive. Our sister company, SGS, is an integrated packaging and marketing company. Together, we shift brands to impact.

WORK SCOPE DESCRIPTION

Assist in Category color development
• Work with category specialist to color print tests, color matching development, multiple sites approval on category producer request, validate manufacturing capability and obtain needed samples for team approval.
• Work closely with category specialist on Ink and Foil development to develop stable formulas that can be used across our Supply Chain for maximum quality and e?ciency.

Manages print deliverables and ensure print quality meets Apple’s expectations
• Support category specialist in corresponding category accessories. Attend press approval on category accessories.
• Support PRQ press check activities both domestic and international.

• Manage press approval print quality meets Client standards. Provide professional color judgement to match design goals across multiple supplier sites.
• Troubleshoot on-site print issues. Signs o? on color standard and establish acceptable printing target.
• Provide complete and timely feedback, and approvals on project deliverables. E?ectively explain decisions and/or recommendations to team and suppliers.
• Track print deliverables with developed timelines and schedules. Flag issues that may a?ect internal or external workflow.
• Work with category producer/specialist to manage approved color chips and color data with
each vendors to validate and replenish before expiration date.
• Qualifying spot colors at 2nd or 3rd supplier sites after leading site is approved by Producer team when requested.
• Work with SQE when needed to supply approved color range and color target.

Assist and monitor supplier capabilities in developed maintenance programs
• Participates in developed maintenance programs as it relates to pre-press, ink mixing, printing and finishing capabilities and ensure suppliers corrective actions are in place.
• Conduct and generate established reports for Client established standardization test, such as Press Characterization within Client supply chain. Following instructions from Client Packaging SQE team.
• Assist in developed standard procedures for e?ective implementation.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
• 5–7 years relevant experience in consumer electronic or consumer goods packaging and labeling, including project management experience.
• Knowledge of pre-press, in-depth printing processes, and solving on-press issues. Requires knowledge of inks, adhesives, and print decoration and finishing techniques.
• Ability to appreciate small color variations and give directions to printers on the spot.
• Strong attention to details, ability to manage multiple projects at once and keep track of milestones and deliverables. Good tasks management.
• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple highly detailed projects at the same time.
• Creative problem-solving skills. Adaptable, flexible and resourceful to manage changes in product definition, time constraints, etc.
• Position is based in Shenzhen/Shanghai, China. Travel domestic China and potential international travel (up to 50% of time).
• Strong knowledge of color management and color theory required. Must pass Munsell test with score of less than 5.
• Able to guide/instruct supplier with knowledge of pre-press, printing process and print standard in order to identify cause & e?ect.
• Good sense and understanding of high-end print quality requirement and attention to details. Hands-on press check color approval experience.
• Understand English in written and reading. Moderate English speaking skill to communicate to the team.
• Positive, attentive, focused, and engaged. Strong work ethic. Accountable for actions. Takes initiative. Collaborative “team-player.”
• Trustworthy in a confidential environment. Supportive of company values.

Software Developer

At SGSCO, our global software engineering team don’t just develop software – we have a worldwide impact. We help global household brands own the moment when a consumer’s interest in their products turns into a desire to purchase.

SGSCO software developers are innovators, problem-solvers, and hard-workers who are building solutions with cloud technologies, the latest Microsoft and open source stack and much more. We are currently looking for an additional full-stack software developer to join our progressive and forward thinking team. If you are looking to work with the latest technologies, learn new skills, and help craft new technical solutions that will have a real world impact across a global company, then this is an opportunity to join us.


About the role

You will work in a modern, supportive, and agile software development environment. Working closely with key stakeholders and third parties on prioritised business objectives, you will join our fast growing and dedicated technology team. You will be part of a team that are building and designing software solutions that power an always-on, collaborative platform used by a worldwide collective of thousands of talented people. In this role you will see your projects through from concept to implementation.

The role will see you as part of team whose typical day starts with remote stand-ups across our scrum teams, followed by any of the following: development pairing with teammates, supporting or leading on complex technical design tasks, writing unit tests, implementing applications, designing and architecting system requirements, reviewing pull requests, mentoring teammates or groups, planning and prioritising future work, working with business analysts on new features, collaborating with our quality assurance team to test and debug sprint deliverables, documenting your work or collaborating in whiteboard design sessions.

About you

We are looking to recruit a candidate with a degree/HND in a computer science, engineering discipline or equivalent and 3 or more years of software development experience. We’d expect you to have in-depth knowledge of the following languages:
• C#.NET (preferred);
• SQL;
• JavaScript.

It is also desirable that you have experience of one or more of the following:
• ASP.NET/Web Application;
• Blazor (web apps with C#);
• MS Azure;
• MS Visual Studio;
• MS SQL Server/SSRS;
• Azure DevOps (VSTS) / GIT.

You must also be able to demonstrate that you:
• are dedicated to producing clean, testable and highly maintainable code;
• can thrive in a collaborative working environment;
• want to help and support your team members, and
• can communicate effectively at all levels.

Software Developer

At SGSCO, our global software engineering team don’t just develop software – we have a worldwide impact. We help global household brands own the moment when a consumer’s interest in their products turns into a desire to purchase.

SGSCO software developers are innovators, problem-solvers, and hard-workers who are building solutions with cloud technologies, the latest Microsoft and open source stack and much more. We are currently looking for an additional full-stack software developer to join our progressive and forward thinking team. If you are looking to work with the latest technologies, learn new skills, and help craft new technical solutions that will have a real world impact across a global company, then this is an opportunity to join us.


About the role

You will work in a modern, supportive, and agile software development environment. Working closely with key stakeholders and third parties on prioritised business objectives, you will join our fast growing and dedicated technology team. You will be part of a team that are building and designing software solutions that power an always-on, collaborative platform used by a worldwide collective of thousands of talented people. In this role you will see your projects through from concept to implementation.

The role will see you as part of team whose typical day starts with remote stand-ups across our scrum teams, followed by any of the following: development pairing with teammates, supporting or leading on complex technical design tasks, writing unit tests, implementing applications, designing and architecting system requirements, reviewing pull requests, mentoring teammates or groups, planning and prioritising future work, working with business analysts on new features, collaborating with our quality assurance team to test and debug sprint deliverables, documenting your work or collaborating in whiteboard design sessions.

About you

We are looking to recruit a candidate with a degree/HND in a computer science, engineering discipline or equivalent and 7 or more years of software development experience. We’d expect you to have in-depth knowledge of the following languages:
• C#.NET (preferred);
• SQL;
• JavaScript.

It is also desirable that you have experience of one or more of the following:
• ASP.NET/Web Application;
• Blazor (web apps with C#);
• MS Azure;
• MS Visual Studio;
• MS SQL Server/SSRS;
• Azure DevOps (VSTS) / GIT.

You must also be able to demonstrate that you:
• are dedicated to producing clean, testable and highly maintainable code;
• can thrive in a collaborative working environment;
• want to help and support your team members, and
• can communicate effectively at all levels.