Creative Project Manager Job Description
Creative project manager
provides expert understanding and proficiencies in project management and web development software tools including Adobe Experience Manager, Basecamp, Excel, JIRA, Microsoft Project (knowledge of software is recommended by not required).
Creative Project Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Traffic all creative projects with omni focus across all departments (print, digital & film) work flow
Lead the process on marketing efforts including everything from TV, print, digital, brochures, posters, point-of-sale material, trade shows, presentations and marketing videos
Responsible for resource allocation and forecasting
Clearly understand and execute Sr
Work with Creative Director to assign projects
Liaise with marketing and sales department clients sourcing and planning
Alternate quarterly responsibility for maintaining creative calendar, meetings supporting AIA
Presents the resulting concepts to internal clients
Creates and manages projects within Workamajig, our core operational software
Optimizes workload and assignments across the Creative team, coordinating closely with designers, UI developers and quality assurance team members
Creative Project Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Creative Project Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, CAPM, CSM, SEO, FB, PRINCE2, MPM
Education for Creative Project Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the creative project manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Marketing, Communications, Education, Business, Advertising, Project Management, Design, Management, Communication, Business/Administration
Skills for Creative Project Manager
Desired skills for creative project manager include:
Microsoft Office
InDesign
Project management tools
Latest Adobe Creative Suite
Print
Production techniques and the ability to provide time estimates for production work
Basecamp
Digital executional processes
Packaging
Adobe Creative Suite
Desired experience for creative project manager includes:
Able to function in a deadline driven environment
1-2 years’ experience with office management (in a creative setting a plus)
Ability to multitask with awareness for timing and urgency
Ability to establish and maintain timelines and schedules
Proactive self-starter with the ability to take and follow direction with minimum direct supervision
Able to multi task work on multiple projects and client management at a time
Creative Project Manager Examples
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Creative Project Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of creative project manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative project manager
- Where appropriate, helps designers complete deliverables for clients, including quality review
- Coordinates with strategy and technology project managers and team members
- While the project manager has some direct interaction with our clients, this is not the focus of the role
- Attends weekly project meetings
- Manages the Architecture and Engineering vendors throughout the design and construction phases of the project
- Develops the design strategy to achieve quality deliverables within the schedule and on the budget
- Monitors change or delays to construction schedule
- Monitors quality assurance of Project
- Assists with preparation of Request for Proposals
- Coordinates construction shipping/receiving elements, purchase orders and testing with direction from the Project Manager and/or Construction Manager
Qualifications for creative project manager
- Four to six years of work experience
- Experience managing projects, timelines and resources using project management software
- Knowledge of industry standard design tools
- To contribute creatively and productively in team brainstorms
- You must be able to scope projects, plan timelines and assess risks, with the character to pro-actively lead your projects forwards in both planning and implementation stages
- Communicating with both internal and external stakeholders
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of creative project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative project manager
- Sourcing print and merchandise product
- Keep all projects organized within our awesome project management software tool
- Engage in short and long term strategic planning on creative initiatives
- Communicate and occasionally negotiate with outside vendors
- Track milestones for all projects
- Communicate and coordinate resources as needed (Translation
- Oversee and confirm as necessary that the creative team meets project deadlines
- Understanding of the MTV brand and culture
- Organize and update server/shared drive with all necessary project documents/invoices/creative files
- Identify and manage appropriate external vendors including freelance creative talent, developers, broadcast production, printers, prop houses
Qualifications for creative project manager
- 2-4 years of relevant creative project management experience
- Must have excellent and effective organization, communication and time management skills
- Project planning, budgeting and structure for both live and pitch work
- Facilitating meetings across departments
- Proven track history of success working as a Project Manager in a Marketing or Creative industry
- Confident trouble-shooter and mediator
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of creative project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for creative project manager
- Serve as the primary point of contact for new projects that involve coordination among various teams
- Prioritize and plan timelines for each project and communicate with team members who are responsible for contributing to each project
- Set and lead meetings with stakeholders and contributors to ensure understanding of project goals and timelines
- Oversee delivery of Brand Creative projects, including linear promos, Brand Marketing cross-channel promotions, multiplatform content and sales/internal presentation reels
- Work with the creative team to develop the most appropriate and effective materials to meet brand objectives
- Develop and manage rollout schedules from creative inception to final delivery
- Oversee and facilitate all production-related communication between on-air creative and production executives, producers, clients and other Comedy Central departmental management teams
- Schedule project kick off meetings, weekly project meetings and post-project de-briefing meetings
- Create project estimates and update budget sheets weekly
- Source new vendors when needed and maintain relationships with current vendors
Qualifications for creative project manager
- Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited 4 year college/university
- Experience in dealing with luxury clients
- Experience managing and producing multi-platform campaigns
- B-to-B/B-to-C experience across a range of digital channels, including web site build's, tablet/ mobile, social media platforms, interactive media, photo shoots and video production
- Familiarity with creative, multimedia and web development processes and file formats
- A good degree from a leading university in a creative discipline
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Creative Project Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of creative project manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for creative project manager
- Liaise with various departments across the organization such as sales and marketing, programming and PR to ensure a cohesive campaign is created
- Creative coordination of audio visual deliverables including direction & asset management and photo shoots
- Manage project execution (Communicate with internal and external clients on the status of the project on a weekly basis, including analytics)Manage project budget (prepare Statement of Work, ensure that project stays within or below budget
- Managing the relationship with designated creative agencies – set expectations for work, confirm budgets, timings and the invoicing process
- Managing the approval of all creative at script/storyboard, first edit and final edits with the respective channel/platform heads
- Managing the campaign review process - creating wrap-up videos for each campaign, capturing creative in-situ, valuing the delivered media and reporting back the analysis alongside the respective Creative Solutions Manager
- Managing the monitoring, logging and reporting of Product Placement partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- Performing project completion using internal or external customer perspective, typically from initiation through delivery
- Coordinating cross-functional teams through meetings and progress measurement activity, which bring distinct, specific projects to completion both on time and within budget
- Maintain effective communications and relationships between internal customers and project team members by providing continuous updates on project statuses
Qualifications for creative project manager
- Manage workflow processes and priorities for the team
- Manage processes working with external vendors
- Help manage timelines, expectations and internal creative reviews for the team
- Build great relationships with the community, PR & social, direct marketing, brand, business marketing, and product teams
- Work closely with the writers and designers on the team and allocate projects accordingly
- Determine long term processes and systems to scale
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of creative project manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for creative project manager
- Provide feedback to management regarding conflicts, changes, slippage, over/under assignments
- Responsible for job intake, document edits and ensuring quality, timeliness and overall client satisfaction
- Assign projects to creative teams based on workload, provide status of projects to team managers
- Schedule and track multiple projects simultaneously, close projects when they are completed
- Plan, analyze, and create visual solutions to marketing and communication challenges, finding the most effective way to get messages across in printed materials
- Establish and maintain productive relationships with Show Production Units, Production Management, Talent Department, Legal, Standards all team members and outside vendors
- Collaborate with client team members to acquire all project information required to perform work
- Participate in client strategy, planning and concept meetings as required
- Facilitate creative and marketing communications solutions and ensure they consistently achieve established client goals and expectations
- Create schedules in collaboration with the creative and traffic teams and drive projects to achieve scheduled due dates
Qualifications for creative project manager
- Ability to understand interdepartmental structure and dynamics
- Project Management experience for at least 3-5 years
- Familiarity with apple FCP, motion, DVD studio pro and general digital video production work-flows preferred
- Desire to work professionally in production in a PR environment
- 5-7 years of creative project management at an agency or similar environment
- Demonstrated communications and problem solving skills including ability to negotiate without compromising ideas or quality with creative, account service and vendors