Job description
Our client, content production company, is looking for a Creative Project Manager to join their team. This will be temp to perm and start ASAP. They are in a hybrid schedule with 2-3 day onsite at their Hollywood Office.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
They are seeking a highly organized, talented Creative Project Manager to join our creative team. Reporting into the Sr Director of Brand and Creative Operations, you will join a best-in-class creative team with capabilities in brand strategy, creative concepting, content production, and fashion design. To be successful in this role, the candidate will be able to work collaboratively with creatives, manage multiple large-scale projects, own all project logistics like budgets and schedules, identify and communicate key milestones, and traffic deliverables. The successful candidate thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, implementing processes and raising the bar on creative deliverables for our brand and our brand partners. This role requires excellent project management skills, strategic and creative thinking, relationship building, problem solving, and strong communication skills with peers and leadership. A demonstrated background of driving highly creative brand, culture, entertainment, design, or media projects is a must for this candidate.
REPORTS TO:
Senior Director, Brand & Creative Operations
• Manage the lifecycle of various creative projects including brand strategy,
integrated campaigns, video productions, show development, fashion design,
and creation of graphic packages
• Lead creation of project scopes, timelines, budgets, and team task assignments
• Create and manage project documents including strategy, proposals, plans and
recap documents in collaboration with creative team
• Schedule internal and external meetings, create agendas, circulate notes and
tasks
• Collaborate with Sr Director of Brand and Creative Operations on creative staff
resourcing and planning for projects
• Liaise with cross-functional stakeholders across all projects, keeping internal
teams updated on project developments and creative deliverables
• Coordinate with fulltime and freelance creative staff to ensure assignments are
understood, and deliverables are met within specified deadlines
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure priority projects meet creative
team standards and are delivered within agreed upon timelines
• Serve as the point of contact for assigned projects to ensure the project is
running successfully and field any questions or issues that arise.
• Represent the creative team at meetings, and clearly communicate updates to
cross-functional teams
• Manage contractors through onboarding in collaboration with People Resources
and Accounting
• Organizing invoices and charges for project actuals; Collect and track project
expenditures
• Recommend project workflow process and improvements while adapting and
modeling a continuous improvement culture
QUALIFICATIONS:
• 5+ years of production/project management experience in a creative
department or creative agency
• Excellent time management skills, organization skills, and the ability to quickly
switch gears between various competing priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multitask, analyze opportunities, define successful approaches, and
proactively solve problems across multiple projects
• Ability to drive forward multiple projects across multiple work streams
successfully
• Ability to receive and run with specific direction and take initiative to provide
creative alternatives when met with a challenge
• Experience managing budgets for a business unit, as well as process and ops
in a highly matrixed organization.
• Experience negotiating scope agreements with contractors and vendors
• Excellent attention to detail. Highly self-motivated & team-oriented
• Passion for art, culture, sports, or entertainment required
• Bachelor’s degree in related field
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