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Creative Project Manager – Marketing Operations / Creative Services

Iconma Portal
26 days ago
Contract
Remote
$15.92 - $53.57 USD hourly
Marketing
Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Creative Project Manager – Marketing Operations / Creative Services for their Remote  location.
 
Responsibilities:
  • As a Project Manager, you’ll be responsible for orchestrating projects through the project lifecycle.
  • This includes managing schedules, communication, and deliverables for multiple programs/projects, both complex and small in scope.
  • Through coordinating all workflow phases, schedule management, and approvals from project initiation through delivery in-market, you’ll ensure projects meet or exceed expectations and are delivered on-time.
  • Project Planning: Helping outline forecasted client workload to aid in agency planning efforts.
  • Proactive partnering with the Account Management/Strategists on a regular basis to understand and review client project roadmaps and priorities.
  • Project Lifecycle Management: Championing the agency processes and workflow to safeguard consistency while flexing when required for project success. Holistic project planning and schedule execution for programs and projects:
  • Ensuring upfront project requirements are received and are aligned with the appropriate project priority and workflow.
  • Partnering with the Resource Managers for creative assignments and resource management.
  • Creating comprehensive project schedules that outline project milestones from initiation to in-market delivery that are based on scope, timing, deadlines and resources.
  • Capturing milestone dates and overall timelines regularly, validating and adjusting timelines as needed.
  • Facilitating project approvals for internal stakeholders.
  • Identifying and proactively resolving any deliverables that might fall behind schedule.
  • Communicating project status, approvals, risk and delivery.
  • Scheduling, facilitating, and recapping project related team meetings (e.g. - project kick-offs, creative reviews, stand-ups, production inputs, huddle meetings for risk mitigation, and lessons learned).
  • Ensuring proper project closure and archive procedures are executed. Workfront System Coordination: Leading and orchestrating all assigned client activities and documentation within the Workfront system from initiating work through project close-out procedures.
  • Certifying the system centrally houses all project requirements, schedules, documentation and project approvals.
  • Leveraging system reporting to analyze, translate and communicate trends or project insights.
  • Functioning as a ‘power user”, utilizing all system features and functions and suggesting system improvements.
  • Proactively suggesting system enhancements and system short-cuts to administration team.
  • Assisting in system training for new hires or system releases.
  • Providing support for system releases or upgrades.
  • Process Champion: Serving as the guardians of the process within BTLDM.
  • Possessing a complete understanding of all BTLDM processes – web, social media, advertising, etc. in order to effectively manage assigned projects across owned or paid media channels or deliverable types.
  • Cross-training peers within the department on process project lifecycles to aid in effective team management of programs/projects.
  • Contributing to process improvements through identifying process opportunities for efficiency, determining the need for a new process or contributing to process improvement through a formal task force or initiative.
 
Requirements:
  • 7-10 years professional related experience in a project management/traffic environment
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge of most of the following project types: design, digital, social, media, video, broadcast, print production, web
  • Demonstrated knowledge and application of project management principles
  • Understanding process methodologies: predictive, agile and hybrid
  • Strong willingness to learn and roll up sleeves in a fast-paced environment
  • Outstanding organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize accordingly to changing deadlines
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate your co-workers, and inspire a one-team approach
  • Gives and receives feedback with positive intentions
  • Intuitive problem solver with the ability to anticipate and action plan
  • Unwavering can-do attitude in a fast pace, deadline driven environment
  • Savvy and genuine negotiation skills
  • Challenges the status quo, champions change, influences others to change
  • Possess a profound curiosity, and never afraid to ask “why?”
  • Learns equally from successes and failures
  • Prior experience working in a project management software solution – Workfront preferred
  • Expert in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Basic knowledge of Adobe Cloud programs a plus (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop,
  • Interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate in a global team environment across multiple levels up and down, and across geos: India/NA/SA/UK.
  • Basic marketing operations understanding across multiple project types such as Web, collateral, video, digital, environmental, and social.
  • Time management, self-manage and being extremely organized in the day to day.
 
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