Our department is a Global Marketing Communications group. We lead all of the advertising and marketing efforts to ensure the considered development and execution of world-class communications.
Project Managers of Centralized Production sit at the intersection of design and production. We steward projects from kick-off to go-live, driving the team to meet critical milestones to ensure on-time completion. This role manages multiple, multi-faceted projects simultaneously, and is responsible for ensuring successful transitions from creative to production, tracking project status and timing, identifying bottlenecks, scheduling key reviews, and enabling smooth workflow.
Key Qualifications
- You have 10+ years of experience working with creative teams in an agency environment.
- Your time management and project management skills are excellent with a keen attention to detail.
- You learn rapidly and can accommodate frequent change, with proven effectiveness working under pressure.
- You are deeply curious, interested in “the how and the why”.
- You have the ability to organize information quickly and at a high level to address potential roadblocks, and are solutions-minded and flexible.
- You have exemplary communication and negotiation skills and manage confidently through diplomacy.
- You have a keen understanding and appreciation of the creative development process and of the production process for print deliverables such as table signage, posters and hero fixture graphics.
- You are an inventive and enthusiastic problem-solver, at ease working in a dynamic, fast-paced, complex organization.
Description
- Develop and maintain project timelines and deliverables lists.
- Drive the team and all stakeholders to meet critical milestones.
- Support multiple projects with varying deadlines and deliverables, provide forward-thinking insight to work flow and resource impacts as timelines shift.
- Lead weekly project status meetings; create agendas & recaps, including next steps and action items.
- Track planned vs. actual key milestones, project scope & staffing.
- Ensure all required mechanicals are built and fully approved on time.
- Consistently reevaluate workflow and processes for efficiencies.
Education
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required.
Hours may fluctuate based on project needs.
