Cory Howe Email & Phone Number

Owatonna, Mn, Us

Hormel Foods

• Leads, mentors, and trains 3+ freelance photographers and 4+ retouchers handling lifestyle photography with a strong food emphasis.• Collaborates with production team, guiding and explain items on set, answering questions, and troubleshooting.• Reviews and ensures shoot meets client deliverables and company standards.• Manages day-to-day set up of photoshoots for products, lifestyle, and brand campaigns focused no food.• Creates and implements e-commerce style guides for all of Hormel Foods brands. • Oversees keywording and metadata for all assets to be to be uploaded to a Digital Asset Management system (DAM).• Coordinates and implements high-end advertising photography photo shoots for all brand under the Hormel Foods family.• Creates and maintains brand style guides and social media marketing. • Maintains a positive, collaborative attitude as a key member of a matrixed, cross-functional team.• Consults, manages, creates, implements, and maintains monthly and quarterly photography for all necessary external facing corporate photography.• Collaborates with senior directors and other corporate teams to manage agency/client team on location shoots, guiding and explaining activities on set or location, troubleshooting as needed with producer to ensure client deliverables are met.

• Provided professional customer service with the highest level of attention, devotion and commitment.• Offered guidance and development support to photography assistants with production team, keep a relevant studio portfolio of work, technology, capabilities, work experience, skills, and education.• Conceptualized, executed, and presented creative photo and video concepts that supported clients’ needs and goals.• Oversaw sales and marketing efforts, growing the business doubling the business• Managed and maintained studio operations, including all hiring, billing, maintenance, and sales.• Maintained exposure and color accuracy standards while producing a high volume of images.• Partnered with assistants, stylists, and other production team members to ensure photography needs are met and all are aligned on achieving final creative goals.