Image Specialist | DG Beauty

Mission

Dolce & Gabbana, a leader in the world of luxury fashion, has an exceptional career opportunity, within the new in-house Beauty Division, for a Beauty Image Specialist based in the HQ in Milan.

This role reports to the Image Manager & supports her/him in building the visual content strategy linked to fragrance and make up marketing plan both for new launches and catalogue on a worldwide perspective including all the consumer touchpoints (media, point of sales, digital tools, e-commerce, pr).  The specialist will lead the post-production phase of static and dynamic visual assets in terms of timing, guidelines set up, markets’ needs, local developments both on line and offline following each step subsequent to shooting and assets selection.

The Specialist will sit within the Dolce & Gabbana Beauty wider communication department, having three main internal stakeholders: Global Marketing and Go to Market Beauty teams and Corporate creative teams, as well as the external visual production agency.

The ideal candidate will be a talented profile passionate about visual and media, Fashion and Beauty industry, with an analytical approach able to read and translate the brief shared by Global and Market teams in precise and efficient way. Ability to understand shooting process and supervise especially on catalogue, packshot and trade contents briefing, shooting, post production and release is required.

Previous expertise on advertising campaign, as well as a strong understanding of the current luxury and youth culture, are required.

Responsibilities

• Support the Image manager to develop shooting calendar, content list and strategy to support key fragrance & makeup launches and initiatives according commercial and business needs.
• Support the new Global MUA Programme, identifying new opportunities & drive visibility through content strategy, supporting and facilitating the shooting preparations.
• Brief and support Global Marketing product managers on mockup and products for shooting, paying particular attention on timing, quantities and packaging needs.
• Work closely with Global Marketing team and key internal stakeholders including Digital, Image, Social, Media, Visual Merchandising team to ensure visual coverage of the 36o products activations.
• Guidelines and campaign development brief coordination collecting markets’ needs and requests.
• Work and support Go to market team ensuring information and strategy sharing in global strategic toolkits respecting master calendar deadlines.
• Drafting and editing visual bible documents based on buyouts on a regular base to be shared both with global and local teams
• Main point of contact with Corporate and visual production agency dedicated team for the campaign development production to ensure correct editing of key crops, guidelines, digital tools through:

• Full menu master visual crops brief
• Specific markets’ needs international and conservative markets.
• POS developments and adaptation
• Digital development and adaptation
• File release archiving
• BTL tools set up and coordination
• Visual bible editing

• Main point of contact with visual production agency partner for:

• Accounts and profile management
• Assets uploads, file and management on visual platform for markets
• Buyouts and order management on visual assets available for markets

• Maintain a strong understanding of competitor campaigns within the competitive beauty & luxury landscape, providing regular insights & information to the wider team
• Oversee day-to-day budget management and supplier payments

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 2 years of relevant advertising & communication experience
• Interest in working with key opinion leaders (creatives, photographers, production teams)
• Experience in working with, and knowledge of, international markets (previous experience in a global role is desirable)
• Experience in file and class big amount of content according to specific nomenclature, crops, technical spec.
• Experience in agency environment is desirable
• Excellent coordination, management, and communication skills
• Excellent time management & organisational skills with a sense of priority
• Excellent attention to detail always with an aesthetic and visual look on executions.
• Ability to communicate across a big organisation at different levels, and manage multiple stakeholders
• Enthusiastic, ability to work proactively to find new/impactful ideas to support the business
• Hard-working, self-motivated, and passionate about visual arts static and dynamic
• Fluent in spoken/written English. Italian language is a plus.

Additional information

• Start date in a full-time position (local Italian contract)
• Relocation from abroad is possible & will be discussed case by case

Location: Milano