Job Description

Description

Our client, a leader in the retail/tech space, is seeking a Digital Marketing Project Manager to join their team start immediately, through EOY (with potential to extend). This person should have digital retail and media background, as well as experience with fast turnaround AGILE projects. Responsibilities: General • Serves as main Project Manager contact for intake of all briefs (in partnership with the Sr. Programme manager). Reviews incoming briefs with Sr. Programme Manager, Production Rollout Manager and lead designer to ensure project is properly scoped and can be kicked off to creative team. • Collaborate with the retail marketing and category teams (the owners of the brief) to understand the full picture of the project and the deliverables required, and supports them with pre-project planning (including project milestones and deadlines to ensure smooth transition to project kick off). • Define the scope of the project, manage resourcing within the team and highlight needs to increase resourcing when needed. Understand the asks and help determine value of projects and prioritization of what is most critical to work on. • Manage changes in scope and understand the implications of them, communicate to the cross-functional teams, and escalate where necessary. • Lead owner to update and manage project schedules, meeting recaps, and team documentation, with input from creative & production teams. • Lead status meetings with internal Americas Regional teams (retail marketing [US/Mexico & Canada], category teams, creative, retail production rollout teams) as well as international teams at Group (HQ) and other regions. • Work closely & collaboratively with creative & production rollout teams to ensure they have a full picture of the projects upon briefing, and manage the progress of the creative development for 3D & 2D asset creation, throughout creative review process, prototype production and final production and rollout/ installation at retail • Supporting the Sr. Programme Manager & Production Manager by sharing & cascading key information from Group relating to NPD and other retail projects with campaign kits, copy matrices, order forms and other project communication. • Partner with Associate Production Managers to detail a clear scope of work pre-production, and assist throughout production, including: • Project management of pre- and post-production – understanding and building these timelines into full project scope. • Upload all final assets to asset management system in partnership with production and creative teams. • Manages projects through the DAM (Digital Asset Management System), including routing of creative file for approval/ feedback; while ensuring project timelines are met & updated as required. Process Improvement • Always looking to optimize brief intake and process, learning from what works and be willing to flex and drive change. • Roll-out new resourcing and project management tools defined by Group, and work with regional team to ensure adoption and use. • Looking ahead to manage team capacity against active and upcoming projects. Brand Reputation • Act as a gatekeeper of the brand story, heritage, ethos and brand on all content platforms and ensure we are always producing best-in-class, locally relevant content?within the strict reputation parameters. • Owner of process improvements to enhance project management. Including but not limited to o Tracking and reporting on projects through dashboards and rollup. o Team Capacity dashboards for Design, Project Management and Production Resources. o System rollouts and enhancements (ways to more efficiently project manage and track project status). About You A dynamic, enthusiastic, and collaborative professional who has: Knowledge skills and abilities: • Organized and action-oriented, able to develop project plans and project manage from kick-off to delivery • Ability to develop scope of work and manage deliverables/asset lists • Flexible enough to manage projects in an environment that can be ambiguous and/or rapidly growing and changing • Able to scope large pieces of work, leading the process of breaking down amorphous problems into deliverable solutions • Thinks 5-steps ahead – figures out the implications of today’s actions to plan for tomorrow • Relationship management - comfortable making connections with the cross-functional teams – insights, category, strategy, creative, Group, other CoEs • Roll up your sleeves mentality – willing to challenge yourself to navigate through challenges and solve problems in one minute, and get down into the weeds the next • Demonstrated experience of design, production and project management processes. • Demonstrated experience reviewing technical drawing packs (developed by Retail Designers and/or brand suppliers). Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Marketing, Project Management, or related field • Experience in digital retail and media a must • Experience working within fast-paced AGILE project management environments • 5 years of advertising, marketing or creative agency project management experience • Working within organizations that have an integrated approach to marketing – not a singular channel focus • Experience working with big box, department and/or speciality and beauty retailers preferred. • Expert knowledge in Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook • Working with multiple countries/languages a plus / Bilingual (English + Spanish) a plus, but not required