Creative Operations Manager

Title: Creative Operations Manager (Hybrid)

Job Description:

Location: New York, New York
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $53 - 57 per hour

We are looking for a Creative Operations Manager for our client in the beauty industry. The ideal candidate will be well-versed in managing projects for an in-house creative team with knowledge of the consumer marketing process, including print and digital, from initiation through final execution. The ideal candidate will maintain and manage our creative department's consumer marketing projects, by coordinating the day-to-day creative department efforts on assigned projects. This role will ensure that the department provides:

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.
• Determines project risk on an ongoing basis, escalates issues as needed.
• Monitors out-of-scope requests, variations (global), initiates additional estimates and approvals.

Coordinating:

• Monitors and prioritizes scope and execution of work.
• Coordinate with cross-functional partners within creative, marketing, GBSC and Sales on defining project guidelines, specifications and timelines.
• 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.
• Keeps project status reports up to date
• Coordinate (with or without vendor assistance) media assets to appropriate vendors.

Project Management:

• 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.
• Acts as project quality assurance - reviewing deliverables against scope.
• Asset Management, sourcing through final delivery.
• Initiates and leads all appropriate project-based meetings.
• 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 (retouchers, publications, color houses, printers, binderies) to ensure delivery to market and that all final artwork deadlines are met. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Digital or Broadcast production.
• Proficiency in Wrike (most important).
• Experience in Production on long-lead product launches (most important).
• Experience in the beauty industry (most important).
• Interest in and aptitude for producing creative marketing solutions.
• 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.

Skills:

• Creative marketing
• Marketing
• Advertising
• Producer
• Project manager

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Equal 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.

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: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).