Advertising Project Manager

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Job Title: Advertising Project Manager
Location-Type: Hybrid, Media, PA (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) Must reside locally in PA, no relocation will be considered at this time. 
Start Date: Mid-September 2025
Duration: Contract, 6 months
Compensation Range: $60.00-$66.00/hour on W2
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K
Visa Sponsorship: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Job Description:
This role leads end-to-end project management for integrated advertising campaigns, ensuring on-time delivery across creative, production, digital, and media workstreams for a high-visibility marketing team.

Job Summary
•Own full project lifecycle management for advertising campaigns, from initial intake and briefing through final asset delivery
•Manage timelines, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, schedules, and trafficking across 2-3 major campaigns simultaneously, each with approximately 20-week lifecycles
•Coordinate execution across multiple internal teams and external agency partners spanning creative, strategy, digital, digital production, traditional production, TV/broadcast, radio, paid media, web, app, loyalty, customer insights, and legal
•Manage the movement of creative assets through multiple rounds of review, revisions, and approvals, holding stakeholders accountable to deadlines
•Communicate campaign status and upcoming milestones proactively to senior stakeholders, including leadership reporting to executive levels
•Balance high-visibility, large-scale campaigns with simultaneously running ad hoc, fast-moving projects
•Support the team's expanded use of Adobe Workfront beyond proofing and into more robust project management workflows

Minimum Requirements:
•8 years of project management experience with a deep advertising and/or creative project management background
•Proven experience managing integrated advertising campaigns across traditional and digital channels
•Strong understanding of the creative and production lifecycle, including coordination across internal teams and external agency partners
•Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, timelines, dependencies, approvals, and stakeholders simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
•Strong PMO fundamentals with the ability to independently manage a significant workload without close oversight
•Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong executive presence, including comfort holding senior stakeholders accountable to deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:
•Experience with Adobe Workfront for project management, not limited to proofing functionality
•Familiarity with other creative proofing and review tools
•Experience working with traditional production houses for TV/broadcast and radio
•Experience managing large-scale, integrated campaigns supported by significant paid media budgets
•Background in budget management or resource planning in an advertising or agency environment