Project Manager - General - Lead

Project Manager

Position Summary: The Creative Project Manager is responsible for the overall coordination, implementation, and trafficking of creative projects ensuring consistency with client strategy, commitments and goals. An ideal candidate would be able to help guide cross-functional resources for timely project completion and be comfortable presenting to senior leaders and decision makers.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Works with creative team, marketing strategists, and channel managers to deliver projects such as emails, signage, environmental design, direct mail, social, web, display, video, etc.
• Facilitates new project intakes for resourcing needs by business priority
• Builds out project plans and manages assignments to ensure timely delivery of assets
• Utilizes workflow management tool (Workfront) for successful project delivery
• Build timelines and workflows
• Own & Manage marketing roadmaps
• Track project progress and ensure timelines kept up to date
• Proactively problem solve/troubleshoot for team
• Provide reporting as necessary for team(s) and leadership
• Facilitates team ceremonies such as stand-ups, kickoffs, creative reviews, and retrospectives
• Implements and manages project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs
• Provide direction and support to program team and creative services teams
• Partners with Program Manager to understand and improve upon overall team efficiencies, workflows & processes

Skills:

• Comfortable managing a high-volume (20+) of concurrent projects with shifting deadlines/priorities across numerous lines of business simultaneously
• Independently drives both tactical and strategic initiatives forward
• Comfort with white space thinking; uses advanced problem solving skills to drive clarity
• Communicates with excellent written, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Remains calm and resilient when faced with shifting priorities and roadblocks

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Finance, Communications or related field or equivalent work experience required
• At least 4-5 years of direct work experience in Project Management required
• 3+ years experience with in-house creative, or advertising agency, or digital marketing preferred
• 1-2 years experience with Workfront or a similar platform preferred
• 3+ years experience reviewing visual design and written content preferred
• 3+ years experience supporting digital or social channels preferred