Location: Malvern, Pennsylvania, onsite Tues/Weds/Thurs
Job Type: W2 hourly contract, 6-12+ months
Compensation Range: $50 - 56 per hour
The premium in-house advertising agency of our financial services client is seeking a Creative Agency Manager to help keep the agency humming and oversee all aspects of the creative development process. You are an ideal candidate if you are an expert in Adobe Workfront and creative operations.
As a Creative Agency Manager, you're a results-driven team player who can guide a cross-functional team through the creative development lifecycle, overseeing strategy, design, creative, social media, and video production processes as well as legal approvals, QA, and hand-offs of creative assets for deployment across all Personal Investor Marketing channels.
This is a hybrid role in which candidates must be onsite in Malvern 3 days per week.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and advises on creative process and efficiencies, content and design solutions, for digital, video, UX, interactive, print materials, presentations, and other creative mediums.
- Transform draft materials and concepts into concise and meaningful end products.
- Provide end-to-end project management support for development of content and creative across all marketing channels and mediums.
- Develop and monitor detailed project plans, demonstrating the ability to customize plans according to the number of deliverables and the duration and effort needed by the creative team.
- Collaborate with channel managers and internal teams to design, develop, and implement creative assets.
- Communicate with the team and ensure all members are on board with assigned tasks, creative SLAs, SLA assumptions, and due dates.
- Highlight risks, track dependencies, and elevate problems as needed.
- Identify and mitigate potential risks to the project timeline, updating stakeholders when projects are off schedule and communicating plans to realign as needed to meet promised hand-off dates.
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of creative, digital, video, social media, and editorial processes.
- Audit and validate project design files and document implementation requirements.
- Forecast and manage project resources and timelines to ensure that projects are completed on time and meet our quality standards. Understand creative flighting/forecasting, scoping, duration, and effort.
- Hold all task assignees accountable for meeting their task requirements successfully and on time.
- Understand creative project management systems (e.g., Workfront, Wrike, Smartsheet) analytics to pull reports and use data to create efficiencies.
- Ensure that work is in good order before opening jobs and when receiving project assets.
- Educate and push back when work is not in good order.
- Reinforce the review process, demonstrating an understanding of opinion-based feedback vs. business product and creative brief alignment feedback.
- Take ownership of quality assurance on projects by validating all creative project deliverables.
- Maintain high levels of motivation and efficiency among project teams by listening, responding to questions, and clearing blockers for them.
- Document and update job aids and best practices, implementing change management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in management, business or a related field-professional certification a plus.
- 5+ years of digital, creative, and marketing project management experience, including large-scale campaigns.
- Fluency with project management tools (e.g., Workfront).
- Familiarity with content management systems (e.g., AEM).
- Knowledge of Adobe design programs, Figma, MURAL, etc.
- Working experience managing creative, compliance, and legal approvals. Able to problem solve with compliance.
- Basic understanding of the technical limitations and implications of design choice.
- Agency experience preferred.
JOBID: 1042412
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At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact ...@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).
Applications accepted on ongoing basis until filled.