Saks is hiring a Senior Manager for their Social Media team!

Who will be the lucky one…Saks needs a Senior Manager in their New York office!

Job Description:
• Design and format all creative for Saks Fifth Avenue social media outlets, including Facebook tabs, twitter graphics and SaksPOV blog postings
• Act as the social media liaison to Saks.com and SFA store creative teams, to insure all social media images and layouts are on brand and consistent with company-wide efforts
• Act as the Social Media team’s expert on design trends within the social media space to advise on best practices and emerging platforms
• Create and manage the design of all SFA social media platforms – Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, SaksPOV, twitter, etc. – in partnership with the Editorial Director, SaksPOV and the Social Media Manager
• Manage the creative content development calendar; coordinate and format all needed assets; upload all postings to SaksPOV
• Manage and liaise with SFA’s social media agencies to establish creative project objectives, deadlines and expected outcomes
• Work with vendor community and saks.com team to create creative assets as needed (i.e. email banners, logos, images)
• Cut, edit and post video using Final Cut Pro and Flash
• Collaborate with the saks.com and store creative teams in the development of project concepts and design approaches
• Translate marketing and merchandising strategies into accurate and visually compelling designs for the upper echelon of the Fashion/Retail industry, with an eye towards social media
• Executes designs quickly and performs additional tasks as required
• Page views/month on Saks Fifth Avenue blog and blog hit pick up
• Engagement on SFA social media platforms
• Successful completion of creative projects, according to set deadlines

Skills:
Knowledge – level of education required, special certifications or licenses: Bachelors Degree in Multimedia Design, Web Design or Graphic Design experience is strongly preferred.

General business acumen, other required skills
• 4+ years experience in web design.
• Proven expertise in: Adobe Digital Suite/Photoshop CS4 or above (including Acrobat), WordPress, Dreamweaver CS5, Illustrator CS5, HTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, Quark Xpress and digital camera software.
• Experience using Flash ActionScript and FinalCut Pro/video editing is not required but strongly preferred.
• PC proficient in MS applications including: Excel and Word.
• Experience designing and producing high-caliber websites, email campaigns, and banners as well as working knowledge of designing for mobile and other emerging devices.
• Excellent typography and design sensibilities and technical expertise, coupled with an understanding of web usability, information architecture, front-end development, and SEO best practices.

Experience – level or related/unrelated work experience, number of years in prior jobs
• 4+ years of professional experience in e-commerce and/or retail brand environment.

Competencies – technical or other skills such as position specific software, financial skills, leadership, team building, training
• Strong verbal and visual communication skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to demonstrate creative and strategic problem-solving skills.
• Excellent time management, resilience, and the ability to work independently as well as in collaboration within a fast-paced team environment.
• Comfortable working under tight deadlines and on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Fashion and luxury brand experience strongly preferred.
ability to work independently as well as in collaboration within a fast-paced team environment.
• Comfortable working under tight deadlines and on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Fashion and luxury brand experience strongly preferred.

For more information and to apply, please visit Saks’ Career Page.

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Fund manager charged as Marvel insider trader

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities regulators have charged a California man with insider trading for buying speculative call options on Marvel Entertainment after learning that Walt Disney Co planned to acquire the comic-book superhero company.

Toby Scammell, 26, is alleged to have bought Marvel call options in August 2009 after learning about the planned acquisition from his girlfriend of two years, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint filed in a California federal court.

Scammell's girlfriend worked on the Marvel acquisition as a six-month temporary employee in Disney's corporate strategy department and knew the details about the pricing and timing of the deal, the SEC said.

Scammell secretly used the money in his older brother's accounts, which he had gained control over when his brother was deployed with the U.S. Army to Iraq in 2007, the agency said.

Just before he bought the Marvel options, Scammell searched the Internet for terms like "insider trading" and "material, non-public information," the SEC complaint said.

Scammell did not reveal his trades or profits to his brother or his girlfriend, the SEC said.

The SEC said the investigation was continuing.

Miles Ehrlich, an attorney for Scammell, said that after nearly 18 months of investigation -- where the SEC spoke to every possible witness, scrutinized every document, and analyzed every email, every text, every instant message, and every website Toby visited -- the SEC still cannot identify a day, a time, a place, a conversation, a document, or anything bearing even a passing resemblance to proof as to how Toby supposedly learned the inside information.

SCAMMELL BOUGHT CALL OPTIONS -SEC

"Scammell exploited his romantic relationship for a financial windfall. His misuse of confidential information gave him an unfair and illegal edge over other traders in the markets," said Rosalind Tyson, the director of the SEC's Los Angeles Regional Office.

In the weeks before announcement of the deal, the SEC said Scammell bought call options with strike prices of $50 and $45 -- something the agency said was "highly remarkable" because the stock price had never closed above $41.74 and the options were set to expire in a few weeks.

He later sold the options for a profit of more than $192,000, or a 3,000 percent return, in less than a month, the SEC said.

The agency noted he had never traded in Marvel before and only had one other "very unsuccessful" prior experience trading call options. The SEC said he worked at the time for an investment fund, although the complaint does not identify the name of his former employer.

The SEC complaint said Scammell now lives in Greenbrae, California.

A Disney spokeswoman said on Thursday that "this does not involve Disney and the complaint speaks for itself."

(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; additional reporting by Lisa Richwine in Los Angeles; Editing by Gary Hill, Phil Berlowitz)

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