Description
Summary:
Lead end-to-end planning, coordination, and delivery of creative and marketing projects, ensuring timelines, budgets, and business objectives are achieved through strong stakeholder partnership and operational excellence.
Highlights:
1. Lead end-to-end creative and marketing project delivery
2. Drive operational excellence across the creative development lifecycle
3. Collaborate with diverse teams to achieve business objectives
**Key** **Accountabilities****:**
* Lead the end\-to\-end planning, coordination, and delivery of creative and marketing projects across multiple channels, ensuring timelines, budgets, and business objectives are achieved.
* Partner closely with Creative, Brand, Marketing, and cross\-functional stakeholders to translate project briefs into actionable plans, workflows, milestones, and deliverables.
* Manage project scope, schedules, priorities, dependencies, and resource allocation across concurrent initiatives, ensuring efficient execution and proactive risk management.
* Serve as the primary day\-to\-day project contact for assigned initiatives, facilitating clear communication, alignment, and decision\-making among stakeholders, creative teams, and external partners.
* Drive operational excellence across the creative development lifecycle, from intake and briefing through production, approvals, and final delivery.
* Establish and maintain project management processes, tools, documentation, and reporting that improve visibility, accountability, scalability, and team efficiency.
* Proactively identify project risks, bottlenecks, and competing priorities, escalating issues and proposing solutions to maintain delivery timelines and quality standards.
* Coordinate internal creative resources and external vendors to ensure work is delivered on brief, on brand, on time, and within budget.
* Facilitate project reviews, status meetings, and workflow checkpoints to ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables across teams.
* Support capacity planning and prioritization efforts in partnership with Creative leadership to optimize team workload and resource utilization.
* Ensure adherence to established creative operations processes, governance standards, and approval workflows across all projects.
* Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and enhance operational processes, tools, and ways of working within the Creative Services function.
* Contribute to a collaborative, solutions\-oriented, and high\-performing team culture through strong partnership, communication, and accountability.
**Key Metrics:**
* On\-time delivery of creative projects and campaigns
* Delivery against agreed scope, timelines, and budgets
* Stakeholder satisfaction and cross\-functional partnership effectiveness
* Volume, complexity, and successful execution of concurrent projects
* Efficiency and throughput of creative workflows and project operations
* Accuracy and effectiveness of project planning, prioritization, and resource coordination
* Reduction of project bottlenecks, delivery risks, and workflow inefficiencies
* Adoption and consistent use of project management processes, tools, and governance standards
* Quality and timeliness of communication, status reporting, and stakeholder alignment
* Team and vendor coordination effectiveness across project lifecycles
* Continuous improvement initiatives implemented to enhance operational scalability and efficiency
**Key Shared Accountabilities**
* Successful delivery of high\-quality marketing and creative initiatives that align with business and brand objectives
* Consistency and adherence to brand standards, processes, and approved workflows across all projects
* Efficient collaboration and communication across Creative, Marketing, Brand, and cross\-functional teams
* Operational excellence in creative development, project execution, and delivery timelines
* Continuous improvement of creative operations, workflows, tools, and team ways of working
* Effective prioritization and resource alignment to support business needs and campaign delivery
* Stakeholder partnership, transparency, and accountability throughout the project lifecycle
* **Key Interfaces**
* Senior Creative Services Manager / Creative Leadership
* Brand Marketing
* Campaign Marketing
* Media \& Channel Leads
* Creative Operations \& Production Teams
* Designers, Copywriters, and Internal Creative Resources
* Traffic / Resource Management Teams
* Global and Regional Marketing Teams
* Business and Cross\-Functional Stakeholders
* External Agencies, Production Partners, and Vendors
**Education**
* Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Project Management, Advertising, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Certification in Project Management methodologies or related disciplines is a plus.
**Experience**
* 5–7 years of progressive experience in project management, creative services, marketing operations, or integrated marketing environments, with demonstrated success managing complex, cross\-functional creative and marketing initiatives from intake through final delivery.
* Experience working with in\-house creative teams, agencies, or matrixed organizations managing multiple stakeholders, priorities, and timelines simultaneously.
* Demonstrated experience supporting integrated marketing campaigns across digital, brand, CRM, paid media, and production workflows.
* Experience managing projects that require coordination across internal teams, external vendors, and senior business stakeholders in fast\-paced environments.
**Technical Skills and Knowledge**
* Demonstrated expertise in project management methodologies, workflow planning, resource coordination, and execution of complex, multi\-channel creative projects from conception through delivery.
* Strong operational and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives, shifting priorities, tight deadlines, and competing stakeholder needs while maintaining quality and efficiency.
* Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and effectively communicate with creative teams, marketing partners, vendors, and senior stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings, manage expectations, provide clear project updates, and influence decision\-making through effective stakeholder management.
* Working knowledge of the creative development and production process, including creative briefing, review cycles, approvals, production timelines, and asset delivery workflows.
* Demonstrated problem\-solving and risk\-management capabilities, with the ability to proactively identify challenges, recommend solutions, and drive projects forward in ambiguous or fast\-changing environments.
* Experience using project management and collaboration tools to support workflow visibility, resource planning, reporting, and operational efficiency.
* Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements that enhance team collaboration, scalability, and operational effectiveness.
**Decision** **Rights**
* End\-to\-end project planning, coordination, and execution for assigned creative and marketing initiatives
* Day\-to\-day management of project timelines, workflows, priorities, and deliverables
* Cross\-functional stakeholder communication, alignment, and project status management
* Resource coordination and workflow tracking across internal teams and external partners
* Project governance, documentation, and adherence to established processes and approval workflows
* Identification and mitigation of project risks, bottlenecks, and delivery issues
* Operational efficiency and successful on\-time, on\-budget delivery of assigned projects
* Continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and team workflows
**Influences****:**
* Project prioritization, timelines, and resource allocation discussions across creative and marketing initiatives
* Cross\-functional collaboration and alignment throughout the creative development and delivery process
* Optimization and evolution of project management workflows, operational processes, and team ways of working
* Stakeholder expectations, communication strategies, and delivery planning for complex initiatives
* Creative workflow efficiency and scalability through process improvements and operational best practices
* Team collaboration, accountability, and operational excellence across Creative Services and partner teams
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