Marketing Graphic Designer

About the role

Wausau Supply Company, founded in 1947 and headquartered in Schofield, Wisconsin, is a 100% employee-owned building products manufacturer and distributor. The company provides top-quality building materials to authorized retailers across the United States, from the western Rocky Mountains to the east coast, through nineteen distribution centers and five fabrication and finishing facilities. Wausau Supply is known for its high-quality manufactured brands, including Diamond Kote Siding System, Waudena, ChamClad, and Taylor Entrance Systems. The in-house marketing team supports these four manufactured brands and the vendor brands distributed, producing print, digital, trade show, and sales materials. This is a fully on-site position at the Schofield, WI office.

Benefits

• 3 weeks paid vacation within 1st year
• 9 paid holidays
• 100% Employee Owned
• Employee Stock Ownership Program
• 401K Retirement Fund — additional opportunity for employee to contribute
• Health, Dental, Vision, Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity for advancement
• Training and development
• Employee Material Purchase Program

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality, effective graphics that align with each brand’s strategy and guidelines for style and communication.
• Manage 10–15+ active projects at a time, from brief to final file, in various design phases for both print and digital.
• Meet set turnaround times and production deadlines; flag timeline risks early.
• Track work and status in the team’s project management system and follow the proofing and approval process.
• Quickly and accurately update existing materials — spec sheets, price changes, catalog revisions, and brand rollouts.
• Acquire in-depth knowledge of each brand and its products to create strong marketing materials.
• Assume responsibility for related duties as required or assigned to support the marketing team.

Print, Layout & Brand Support

• Work closely with the Creative Services Manager and brand managers to create catalogs, brochures, spec sheets, price books, ads, and signage.
• Build and maintain InDesign templates so recurring materials can be produced quickly and consistently.
• Prepare print-ready files for commercial printers and in-house production, including large-format trade show graphics, displays, and point-of-purchase (POP) materials.
• Assist with development of logo designs, packaging, presentations, recruiting campaigns, culture collateral, and more.
• Assist with creation of application and product photography for various needs.

Digital Marketing Support

• Work closely with the Digital Marketing team to create graphics for website, social media, digital advertising, and email.
• Create and implement graphics for monitors throughout the company, including announcements, culture, ESOP, wellness, etc.
• Assist with the creation of promotional videos for brands and the company.

Qualifications

• Strong eye for layout, typography, and detail — and pride in getting it right before it goes to print.
• Excellent creative thinking, graphic design, typography skills, knowledge in photography and print process.
• Ability to apply visual hierarchy, color, and typography in the context of an existing or new design direction.
• Strong proofreading skills; catches spelling, grammar, and content errors before files are released.
• Works closely with key stakeholders to align designs to the brand’s overall vision and ensure marketing objectives are supported.
• Develop and sustain strong working relationships with all stakeholders.
• Collaborative and team oriented, but also capable of working independently.
• Ability to absorb and apply constructive criticism from peers.
• Dedicated team player with strong interpersonal skills including phone manner, oral and written communication.
• Remain highly organized, flexible, and able to react well to immediate issues with attention to detail and deadlines.
• Works quickly and accurately under tight deadlines and shifting priorities in a high-volume environment.
• Motivated to go beyond the job description to ensure projects are completed by deadlines.

Education & Experience

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of professional layout and production experience in Adobe InDesign, plus working proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Experience building multi-page documents in InDesign — catalogs, spec sheets, price books, brochures — using master pages, paragraph/character styles, tables, and grids.
• Able to update large catalogs and price books efficiently (e.g., auto-generated contents pages, linked images that update across files, pulling product data from a spreadsheet into a layout).
• Working knowledge of print production: bleeds, CMYK and Pantone color, image resolution, preflight, and print-ready PDF export.
• Experience with large-format print (signage, trade show graphics, POP) is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Adobe Lightroom, Acrobat, Bridge, Premiere Pro, and After Effects is a plus.
• Photography and video editing capabilities is a plus.
• Must provide a portfolio of work that includes at least two multi-page layout samples (catalog, brochure, spec sheet, or similar).
• Finalists will complete a short InDesign skills exercise.

Working Conditions

• Fully on-site at the Schofield, WI office; remote or hybrid work is not available.
• General office conditions with continuous sitting or standing with heavy computer usage.
• Occasional short-term out-of-town travel.
• Overtime needed during peak periods such as trade shows and product launches.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Reports to: Creative Services Manager