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:
Requirements:
Why Should You Apply?
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.
Why Should You Apply?
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities