Creative Project Mgr
Pay Rate: Not Specified
Job type: contractor
Location: Remote, MO
1. Interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate in a global team environment across multiple levels up and down, and across geos: India/NA/UK
2. Basic marketing operations understanding across multiple project types such as Web, collateral, video, digital and social.
3.Time management, self-manage and being extremely organized in the day to day.
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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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:
o Ensuring upfront project requirements are received and are aligned with the appropriate project priority and workflow.
o Partnering with the Resource Managers for creative assignments and resource management.
o Creating comprehensive project schedules that outline project milestones from initiation to in-market delivery that are based on scope, timing, deadlines and resources.
o Capturing milestone dates and overall timelines regularly, validating and adjusting timelines as needed.
o Facilitating project approvals for internal stakeholders.
o Identifying and proactively resolving any deliverables that might fall behind schedule.
o Communicating project status, approvals, risk and delivery.
o 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).
o 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 Champions: Serving as the guardians of the process within Global Brand & Creative.
• Possessing a complete understanding of all Global Brand & Creative 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.
PMO and Ops team consists of 16 people overall. This person would work across one-two key Project Managers or Sr. Managers to help support specific books of business and/or mid-large projects. Candidate should have the ability to manage 25-30 projects monthly in a fast-paced environment. 2 weeks of comprehensive training would happen prior to managing projects solo. Candidate would be encouraged to attend weekly team huddles and monthly operations meetings within the team.