Contract Marketing Operations Project Manager REMOTE ARIZONA

Contract REMOTE Arizona

Pay $43-$45hr

M-F 40 hours per week

Creative Operations Associate Manager will oversee resources workflows across our creative teams. The ideal candidate will have a background in production, a proven track record of creating best practices for creative/production teams, strong cross-cultural communications, and the ability to prioritize and problem solve daily. The role will be to work closely with Marketing Managers, UX design, Regional Account Managers, Channel Managers, and Brand Creatives to ensure projects are properly staffed and set up for success.

A successful candidate will have the ability to anticipate the workloads based on forecasts and pull in the resources necessary to complete the projects. The Creative Ops Associate Manager will find a balance between creative needs and executional timelines to staff projects appropriately and set the team up for success.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain an accurate record of work in progress across internal creative and agency teams.
• Proven success as a Digital Asset Manager or similar in a creative production environment
• Provide regular status reports to management, including identification and escalation of project blockers, risks, issues.
• Manages tight timelines, priorities, and resource constraints; partners with department creative team to manage staffing and understand resources and timelines.
• Provides support to stakeholders through the discovery process and then develops the project plan including objective(s), requirements, resourcing, and dependencies.
• Input creative Jira tickets and manage the requests against sprint process.
• Provide daily, full-traffic management of internal creative teams.
• Provide daily workflow for Global agency approvals.
• Be the conduit for communication across teams to ensure efficient workflow.
• Reviews daily workloads of projects in queue and adjusts timelines and status of tickets as necessary.
• Communicate, as needed, updating all teams on the status of jobs and alert them of obstacles that may impede deadlines.
• Escalate roadblocks to management as necessary.
• Ensure that all pieces of the request are delivered within the expected timeframe.
• Keep tickets updated to include the most accurate information.
• Ensure creative outputs are aligned to briefs.
• Ensure final deliverables are archived within a database.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of project management experience for large-scale initiatives spanning cross-functional teams with complex deployments.
• Solid technical background, with understanding of SDLC, web technologies, implementation, and roll outs
• Ability to organize and prioritize tasks from multiple sources in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining highest quality standards
• Basic understanding of various Agile delivery methods (Kanban, Scrum, Lean)
• Familiarity with managing large scale projects using JIRA and Confluence
• Experience working with technical teams.
• Able to prioritize varying demands and multitask as needed.
• Excellent organizational skills with very high attention to detail
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Self-motivated. Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven organization.
• Highly tech literate, should be able to master software and tools quickly.
• Familiarity with the following organizational collaboration tools (SharePoint, Confluence, Jira, Jive, Workfront, Slack.)

Health and Vision Benefits offered

Calabria Group dba Dynamic Staffing Inc