Creative Project Manager

Company: Aerotek
Location: Plano
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Education: min. 4 year degreeYears: 6+ years production or project management experience in a fast-paced, detail-focused position with client deliverables preferred. Prior creative agency experience preferred but not required.Sr. Brand Producer / Project ManagerWe need your remarkable project and client management skills to keep us humming. Our clients are internal marketing functions and categories. You will be a key member of the Corporate Marketing team, working with designers, strategists, and marketers; responsible for ensuring superlative project outcomes, and super-happy clients.Your passion for delivering brand-focused creative projects with the ability to quickly pivot will help, so will your experience managing high-level clients with incredible attention to detail and communication. Youll bring proven experience running successful brand and design initiatives. In short, you can project manage the full spectrum of brand projects all the way through to an awesome deliverable and a happy client. Youre always making to-do lists and looking after the details, tracking milestones and schedules, thinking 3 steps ahead on a project that only has 2 steps. You can use all the usual office software suspects, and youre quick to pick-up new tools. Youre not just a meeting scheduler but you help define the deliverables from the client and help manage the development of creative assets from the creative team. Your clients will be the various marketing teams from the Mobile, Home Appliance, and Home Entertainment categories; functional teams such as HR, Customer Service, or Corporate Communications; or functions within the Corporate Marketing team such as Social Media, CRM, Influencers,More specifically, you'll have the following duties and need the following traits:RESPONSIBILITIES:* Manage and guide clients and the creative team (or external agency) from project initiation through successful project completion, ensuring a long-term client relationship* Be the voice of the client to the creative team and be the voice of the creative team to the client* Foster and grow your client relationships; guide solutions and deliver project results that exceed their expectations and result in the highest levels of client satisfaction* Foresee and prevent situations where a clients feedback isnt taken into consideration, a piece of the puzzle is missing, or an element doesnt align with their overall goals and objectives* Proposal creation, estimating and resource management for small to large budget projects* Develop and drive project plans through all phases from scoping through delivery* Manage multiple roadmaps for a single client as well as multiple projects across marketing teams* Ensure Creative and Production project teams are set up for success through deliveries, timeline, communication, and client support throughout the project lifecycle, including post-launchTRAITS + EXPERIENCE:* Solid team player whos self-motivated, driven, passionate, and downright nice* Resourceful get-it-done attitude; you arent afraid to try new things, and you dont let a setback get in your way; you strive to understand the project from a holistic viewpoint* Exceptionally strong work ethic, hold yourself accountable, and are dependable; when someone asks you for something, you roll up your sleeves, dig in, and persist until its done* Highly collaborative work style that motivates and engages co-workers in multidisciplinary teams* Stellar customer service is just part of your DNA - you cant not go above and beyond to ensure your clients needs are met* Ability to read a room, and youre able to pivot as needed to support the needs of your team* Uncanny ability to manage up - communicating risk, project issues, setbacks, etc, while theres still time to address them and get back on track* An amazing eye for detail - in one of those spot the difference books, you get them all and maybe one that the editor missed* Great written and verbal communication skills, the ability to craft and deliver presentations, written project briefs, emails, and more* Basic project budgeting skills are a plus* An understanding of web technologies is a plus* Basic skills with Adobe Creative Suite applications is a plus* Bachelors Degree or work experience equivalent* 6+ years production or project management experience in a fast-paced, detail-focused position with client deliverables preferred. Prior creative agency experience preferred but not required.LOCATION:* Preference is to be located in Dallas/ Plano but NYC and LA locations would be feasible About Aerotek:We know that a company's success starts with its employees. We also know that an individual's success starts with the right career opportunity. As a Best of Staffing Client and Talent leader, Aerotek's people-focused approach yields competitive advantage for our clients and rewarding careers for our contract employees. Since 1983, Aerotek has grown to become a leader in recruiting and staffing services. With more than 250 non-franchised offices, Aerotek's 8,000 internal employees serve more than 300,000 contract employees and 18,000 clients every year. Aerotek is an Allegis Group company, the global leader in talent solutions. Learn more at Aerotek.com.The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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