Project Manager - Planet Interactive
New York, NY 10153
About the Job
Planet Interactive is seeking a passionate and experienced Project Manager to maintain and manage one of our beauty client's creative departments consumer marketing projects, by coordinating the day-to-day creative department efforts on assigned projects. This role will ensure that the department provides:
- Pay: Up to $55-60/hr depending on experience
- Location: New York (3 days on-site)
- Collaborates with the marketing team on preparation of project initiation, scoping, and budgeting.
- Develop workable budgets, schedules, and realistic timetables.
- Provide project status updates on a regular basis.
- Liaison with appropriate teams / departments in the creation of project specifications and time plans.
- Determines project risk on an ongoing basis, escalates issues as needed.
- Monitors out of scope requests, variations (global), initiates additional estimates and approvals.
- Coordinate with cross-functional partners within creative, marketing, GBSC and Sales on defining project guidelines, specifications and timelines.
- Ensure consumer marketing materials are tracked and delivered to final destination.
- Monitors all budget and production activity, communicates status, problems & project needs to appropriate department and personnel in order to meet project deadlines.
- Oversees each phase of the internal and external approval process, copy, scripts, layouts, art, assets, mechanicals, translations, proofs and printed samples.
- Keeps project status reports up to date.
- Coordinate (with or without vendor assistance) media assets to appropriate vendor.
- Manage assigned projects, involved with client projects from start to finish, ensuring successful project completion against deadlines.
- Works with team and / or program manager to best determine project timelines to ensure coordinated efforts across program is being completed.
- Acts as project quality assurance reviewing deliverables against scope.
- Asset Management, sourcing through final delivery.
- Initiates and leads all appropriate project-based meetings.
- Attend and contribute to Creative Operations meetings and Creative Department meetings.
- Attend marketing meetings, and / or assigned department related status meetings (i.e. marketing & creative operations meetings.
- Work closely with outside vendors (retouchers, publications, color houses, printers, binderies) to ensure delivery to market and that all final artwork deadlines are met.
- Monitor all internal and external costs for assigned projects.
- Creates and maintains all project backup, status reports, POs, estimates, schedules, change orders, technical and production specs, preproduction books and any other associated backup.
- Manage vendors on assigned projects - create purchase orders, monitor actual vs. budgeted costs.
- Works with finance to insure proper billing vendor billing.
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, digital or broadcast production.
- Interest in and aptitude for producing creative marketing solutions.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience as a producer or project manager in a creative agency, in-house or production environment (consumer marketing environment).
- Experience in integrated marketing preferred.
- Well versed in executing campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Proven project management ability.
- Self-motivated and willing to expand knowledge.
- Experience working with teams to develop and negotiate project scopes and budgets.
- Ability to self-manage while managing assigned teams and projects under tight deadlines.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work with colleagues at various level.
Source : Planet Interactive