Project Manager

1876 Productions Project Manager

The Marketing & Growth Organization is Clients marketing engine, responsible for driving sustainable growth by deeply understanding and championing our customers, captivating them with compelling products, services and experiences; and building a culturally relevant and beloved brand. We pride ourselves in continuously striving to embody expertise, simplicity and inspiration in everything we do.

About the Role

The 1876 Productions Project Manager executes internal client requests ensuring on-target, on-time, on-budget, on-brand delivery of advertising and marketing materials. This person must exhibit outstanding project management and client communication skills to achieve the highest possible standards in client service. They need basic knowledge of clients business challenges and must understand marketing and advertising as a function to provide solutions. The PM will also be expected to participate in creative development meetings ensuring final output is on brand and achieves the objectives of the brief. In addition, the Project Manager will provide project management follow-through and accurate delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains solid client relationships; encourages a collaborative approach with departmental team members.
• Educates clients on cost savings and leveraging opportunities aligned with their marketing efforts.
• Partners with outside agencies in managing clients promotional and marketing efforts.
• Writes creative briefs on complex projects and interprets them for project teams to lead communication strategies and implement marketing efforts.
• Recommends the effective reuse of past materials when appropriate, to minimize client costs.
• Collaborates on creative development and direction with client, design, and production teams.
• Provides feedback to the project team during internal creative reviews.
• Presents concepts to clients, obtains feedback, and translates that feedback for the project team.
• Reviews client change requests and responds with schedule/cost impacts along with alternatives
• Oversees Traffic Coordinators activities in managing workload, priorities project planning and creative reviews.
• Manages expectations with clients and departmental teams. Negotiates timelines and budgets and ensures that all deadlines are maintained.
• Represents the interests of the client in interactions with project teams.
• Ensures all Regulatory, Legal and Compliance and branding guidelines are followed to the letter on their assigned businesses.
• Provides final sign-off on projects to ensure compliance with creative brief and project specifications.
• Leverages knowledge and understanding of graphic design, creative and production to facilitate effective communication between client and departmental teams.

Skills and Knowledge Required

• Ad agency project manage experience including digital, print, and direct marketing campaigns
• Strong understanding of the benefits of the above communication channels with the ability to make the channel with the clients communication needs.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, both through idea generation and assessment of ideas generated by others.
• Team player with excellent relationship building skills.
• Operates effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Adept at crisis management.
• Resourceful and solution oriented.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Excellent creative project management skills, highly organized and ability to multitask effectively.
• Strong understanding of marketing.
• Strong understanding of the creative process as well as design and print/web production.
• Knowledge of all Industry Regulatory, Legal and Compliance guidelines and ensure these policies are followed to the letter on their assigned businesses.
• Successful track record at client service in a marketing or creative environment.

Education/Experience

• Bachelors degree required . Preferably in marketing, communications, advertising or business.