Sr Program Manager- Media - ArrowCore Group

Title: Senior Project Manager, Media
Location: Bolingbrook, LI
Duration: 6+ months


SUMMARY:

Our direct client - the largest specialty beauty retailer in the United States and the place for the true beauty enthusiast - is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager, Media who is responsible for coordinating and supporting the operational needs of the Media Creative team and agency partners as they build comprehensive marketing programs across a variety of media channels.

This individual will help to facilitate the briefings, comprehensive project planning and the communications needed to ensure on-time and efficient creation of marketing campaigns that help drive traffic, awareness, and conversion for brand partners within the UB Media program.

This role will specialize in ensuring various stages of projects are met in a timely and efficient manner, assisting teams in prioritization, communicating feedback and supporting a collaborative environment for the creative team and brand partners.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the Media creative team in delivering exceptional marketing campaigns, design projects, and collateral for various media workstreams.
• Communicate best practices and guidelines to brand partners to help support project brief process.

• Plan the workflow for teams, including detailed project timelines, scope, available resources and relevant communication milestones.
• Work closely with Sales and Account Management UB Media teams and brand partners to coordinate briefings for Creative projects and gather all necessary information and details.
• Manage project milestones , coordinating and facilitating creative kickoffs, reviews, and tracking project activity and details in Monday.com.
• Coordinate communications between in-house Creative teams and external brand and agency partners to help facilitate a frictionless process for all.
• Orchestrate day-to-day activities on assigned projects and be proficient in the preparation of items such as project timelines, internal status reports, daily hot sheets, end of day lists and various other project management and tracking reports.
• Organize, schedule and lead internal status meetings with project team members.

• Collaborate with the creative, production and design teams to develop optimized systems for project management.
• Work closely with the operations teams to connect teams and projects so that we have a complete and holistic view of the work.
• Work closely with Sales and Account Management teams to support brand partnership by developing process docs and various resource materials.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in relevant field (Marketing, Project Management, Design, Business Management).
• 5-7 years of experience in project management, trafficking creative services or operations.
• Experience working with design and marketing agencies across a variety of projects and channels (digital channels preferred).
• Strong written, oral and interpersonal communication skills.
• Self-starter capable of meeting tight deadlines while managing multiple projects.
• Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office and other relevant project tracking and planning software such as Miro, Figma, Workfront, Monday.com and PowerPoint.
• Hybrid office environment.
• Agency or Retail Media Network experience is preferred.