Job Description
Location: Los Angeles, CaliforniaJob Type: ContractCompensation Range: $44 - 46 per hour
We are searching for a collaborative Associate Creative Project Manager to join our client's creative project management team. The Creative Project Management team is the internal creative agency engine, linking all functions, and managing work flows end-to-end to deliver all campaigns and initiatives with excellence. Associate Project Managers work closely with Project Managers, Account Management, Creative, and Production daily to ensure that projects are moving seamlessly through the system and that anticipated challenges are addressed early.Responsibilities:
Partner with your connected Project Manager and Account Manager on project intake and ensure that resources are appropriately assigned, and jobs are opened in Workfront.
Develop detailed project schedules with the vertical Project Manager, ensuring Account, Creative and Production are aligned and kept abreast of key milestones, timeline shifts and changes in deliverables.
Work with the vertical Project Manager to guide projects from beginning to end and be a "go-to" person on project status.
Ensure project milestones are updated in Workfront as projects progress through the agency.
Attend and support status meetings and documents to ensure clarity of weekly milestones, meetings, and deliverables.
Call out scheduling, resourcing, or other potential challenges well in advance and offer solutions to the vertical Project Manager.
Follow up with creative and production teams to ensure they have the information and assets needed to get the job done. Ensure that the teams are working toward key timing milestones.
Liaise with the vertical Project Manager, Account, Creative Business Management and Operations to ensure work is being routed to appropriate partners while in development (legal, trademark, Corp Comms, etc.).
Communicate effectively with the vertical Project Manager and cross-functional partners.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
1 year of project management experience at an advertising agency or in-house creative group or relevant work experience
Experience supporting project of various sizes, preferably creative based
High accountability - a successful Associate PM will fully support and feel "ownership" over their projects from intake to completion
Servant leader - able to support and help lead project teams and hold team members accountable while understanding they aren't the decision makers of the creative work
Solutions-oriented, creative problem solver
Detailed worker with an emphasis on thoroughness and timely completion of tasks
Skilled at establishing and maintaining relationships with partners and peers
Entrepreneurial - this function is new to the organization and the right candidate will have the desire to build, test, and learn while adding value to the agency
JOBID: 1090032#LI-Cella#LI-SB1Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.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
[email protected] 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). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.Qualified applicants in San Francisco with criminal histories will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.Qualified applicants in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County with criminal histories will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County's Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers.We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
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