Success Factors
In more than 50 years of supplying brand-management services to the world’s top consumer brands, Schawk has developed a clear sense of the capabilities that help our employees excel, on behalf of themselves and our clients.
Not only do we encourage you to consider and apply for our open positions, we suggest you first read the Success Factors we’ve established for the functional area in which you are interested. This will help you focus your efforts and help us better understand your specific skills.
Account Services
Mission: Schawk Account Services teams are committed to delivering a superior level of client service by engaging in holistic analyses that display a thorough understanding of all aspects of the client’s business.
Success Factors:
Client Focused: Building client confidence by setting achievable client expectations and assuming responsibility for meeting the needs of external and internal clients.
Results Focused: Achieving results by setting challenging goals, prioritizing tasks and overcoming obstacles. Taking ownership of challenges and committing to be fully accountable for their outcomes.
Proactive: Always anticipating problems and possible solutions to avoid their recurrence. Adapting to change and new ideas while taking on new responsibilities and adjusting plans to meet the evolving needs of the client.
Communicative: Communicating clearly and effectively verbally and in writing with internal and external clients while also engaging in good listening
skills.
Leader: Building consensus, encouraging two-way feedback and acknowledging the contributions of others while mentoring other employees in areas within the discipline.
Strategic:
Clearly understanding and communicating business objectives and considering them when making decisions. Ensuring that deliverables to the client meet strategic business objectives.
Creative Services
Mission: Schawk is committed to creating world-class compelling and innovative brand images for our clients.
Success Factors:
Innovative: Thinking outside of the box when designing new and innovative creative concepts while meeting our client’s needs.
Strategic: Understanding our client’s business objectives and interpreting those objectives into world-class creative.
Savvy: Understanding the difference between trends and fads and interpreting those trends into creative solutions for our clients.
Composed: Being cool under pressure and holding things together during potentially stressful times. Accepting constructive criticism and feedback in a positive manner.
Communicative: Communicating well both verbally and in writing with internal and external clients while also engaging in good listening skills. Engaging in cross-work group partnerships and initiating new and productive internal and external alliances.
Problem Solver: Recognizing problems and responding accordingly by gathering information, sorting though complex issues and addressing the root cause of problems to develop an appropriate solution.
Goal Oriented: Achieving results by setting challenging goals, prioritizing tasks and overcoming obstacles.
Finance
Mission: The Schawk Corporate Finance team is a key, strategic partner in ensuring the company attains its Vision 2020 goal. We will accomplish this through our commitment to providing thoughtful counsel showcasing our financial expertise, our ethical standards towards total compliance, our demonstrated understanding of the business and our proactive customer service mentality.
Success Factors:
Expertise: We recruit the best of the best so our team members are highly skilled in their roles and positively contribute in moving the organization forward.
Integrity: Everything we do is done in an ethical, straightforward and honest manner. We are the champions of financial compliance, and we support company values.
Initiative: We tackle problems and are not afraid to take action. We seek out new responsibilities and act on opportunities for positive change. We continually generate new ideas and proactively practice self-development.
Perseverance: The team regularly sets targets and achieves results. We enjoy challenging ourselves, overcoming obstacles and enjoying the satisfaction that comes when our goals are met.
Quality: Quality is instilled into each and every member of our organization starting with our senior management team and is a differentiator for our business. We have metrics in which we understand our baseline and track improvement as we continually make strides forward.
Accountability: We take ownership of our work. We take pride in being fully responsible for its outcome and we take the time to be painstakingly accurate to ensure positive results.
Human Resources
Mission: Treat each person as a valued client while contributing positively to the bottom line through comprehensive programming that displays a thorough understanding of all aspects of the Human Resources profession, including proactive involvement in areas of legal compliance, and service that displays as enthusiastic interest in the lives of other.
Success Factors:
Related: Putting one’s self in the other person’s shoes to understand their concerns and see their point of view.
Accountable: Taking ownership of challenges and committing to be fully responsible for their outcomes.
Proactive: Making it a habit of always anticipating problems and possible solutions to avoid their reoccurrence.
Consultative: Building client confidence in HR by ensuring our clients perceive us as a valuable resource to support business objectives.
Collaborative: Engaging in communications that maintain client trust and demonstrate a thorough understanding of the HR profession and its impact on our business.
Enthusiastic: Using a friendly, upbeat voice and respectful tone to signal your interest in the person and the problem.
Information Technology
Mission: The Schawk Information Technology Department will: 1) Connect Customers, 2) Integrate Business Partners, and 3) Empower Employees through the use of technology enabling tools.
Success Factors:
Respect: At all times and in all situations, we will operate in a professional manner. We will take a professional approach to resolving issues.
Responsiveness: A sense of urgency is critical to our success as an IT organization, as well as the
success of Schawk, Inc. We will work to proactively identify issues and resolve them.
Accountability: We will be accountable for our actions and delivering quality results. Meeting deliverables will produce results. Results will move us forward.
Competence: We will ensure the IT organization is a "High Performance" team. Our team members will be skilled in their area of expertise and will be expected to positively contribute to moving the organization forward.
Quality: Quality will be instilled into each and every member of our organization, and will be a differentiator for our organization. We will utilize metrics to ensure we understand our baseline and track improvement as we move forward.
Initiative: The IT organization is ever-evolving and operates in a proactive manner where surprises are eliminated. This will require energy, planning, and execution from all members of our team.
Demonstrated willingness and knowledge of "the business": We will integrate the IT organization into the businesses of Schawk, Inc. We will earn our seat at the table and be a strategic partner to the rest of the organization.
Technical Services
Mission: To sustain our position as the global leader of brand point management. We will accomplish this by continually evolving our business processes and maintaining the ongoing education of our workforce.
Success Factors:
Teamwork: Ability to collaborate with each other to reach a consensus on the best solutions for our clients while always treating each other in a respectful professional manner.
Flexibility: Readiness to adapt to change while maintaining the highest levels of quality and service in a rapidly changing environment.
Education/ Innovation: Staying abreast of constantly evolving technology and equipment advancements. Open to cross training to sustain/improve competencies and produce a consistently high quality product for our clients. Sharing this knowledge with our client base to establish customized work flows to manage their specific needs.
Enthusiasm: Showing a passion and pride for what we accomplish and the obstacles we overcome on a daily basis.
Profitability: Managing our business with the highest level of expertise allowing us to sustain profitability while creating opportunities for our employees and clients.
