Senior Creative Project Manager

Description

The company is a global sports brand that makes footwear, apparel and accessories for athletes and everyday movers.

The group operates in more than 120 countries and employs around 22,000 people worldwide.

This role sits within the in-house creative team and works with agency partners across global campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day management of global campaign creative plans.
• Act as the main daily contact for the in-house creative team, external agencies and key stakeholders.
• Set and lead the critical milestones of each project, from first concept through delivery to local markets, with leadership oversight.
• Keep stakeholders informed daily about project status and next steps, and keep every stage transparent.
• Run internal discussions that bring teams together, covering deliverables, resource allocation, brief and scope review, and creative approvals.
• Manage creative workflows, including briefing, project prioritization and resourcing.
• Build seasonal timelines and drive creative work under tight deadlines with several stakeholder groups.
• Assign creative team members to tasks based on their expertise and current workload.
• Run internal and external creative reviews and approvals under leadership oversight.
• Handle several streams of work at once using the organization's workflow tools.

Requirements

• 7+ years of project management or account management experience in an in-house creative brand or agency.
• A digital background is a plus.
• A bachelor's degree in communications, advertising, marketing or a related field.
• Ability to stay focused under pressure while remaining positive and confident.
• High standards for your own work and conduct and for others, with accountability, assertiveness and dependability.
• Exceptional verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to quickly present key project highlights to many levels of stakeholders.
• Strong management skills, including driving several complex projects at once, escalating issues and proposing solutions proactively.
• Experience managing internal workflows for multidisciplinary campaigns.
• Experience in design and/or production is a plus.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a matrix organization.
• Comfort working with senior executives, external partners and talent.

Conditions

Equal opportunity applies to all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

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