Our client, a luxury beauty brand, is seeking a Creative Operations Consultant. You will manage projects for the in-house creative team and must have knowledge of the consumer marketing process, including print and digital, from initiation through final execution. This is a contracted role based out of NYC.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Monitors out of scope requests, variations (global), initiates additional estimates and approvals.
- Monitors and prioritizes scope and execution of work.
- Coordinate with cross-functional partners within creative, marketing, GBSC and Sales.
- 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.
- Coordinate media assets to appropriate vendors.
- 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.
- Asset Management, sourcing through final delivery
- 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 (re-touchers, 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, PO's, 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.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Digital or Broadcast production
- 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.
Please submit a resume and portfolio for consideration.
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