Assoc Creative Project Mgr

About the job Assoc Creative Project Mgr X958473Y

Big-picture thinker. Detail wrangler. Team connector.
If that describes you, this Associate Creative Project Manager role may be exactly what you've been looking for.

Join a global retail leader in Bentonville, Arkansas, where you'll play a pivotal role in guiding creative projects from concept to completion. From scoping new initiatives to driving signage and visual solutions forward, you'll ensure projects meet deadlines, budgets, and strategic objectives while delivering seamless project management.

Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of project management experience in e-commerce, corporate retail, visual merchandising, or agency environments. You will scope all incoming projects and determine the appropriate resources needed to accomplish the task. This individual will drive all approved sign projects forward on time in a unified effort to produce sign/visual, components/solutions that successfully achieve strategic business goals while also providing a meaningful customer experience in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Identify key stakeholders, milestones, deliverables, & and all other relevant information needed to begin the initiation of a project.
• Comprehend, implement, and wholeheartedly adopt all guidance and directives provided by client leadership of effective business processes and workflows."
• Gather and distribute any necessary information & distribute to all as required in a daily effort to keep everyone on task throughout each critical milestone of a project.
• Utilize and navigate in print project management software to create new signing projects, while also ensuring pertinent job information by all stakeholders is captured from project initiation to completion throughout.
• Create project timelines, manage assets with appropriate stakeholders, and adjust the life of the project as needed.
• Schedule and participate in any necessary project meetings as required, ensuring all key stakeholders are engaged and that the team is set up for success in meeting deadlines effectively and on time throughout the duration of the process.
• Coordinate and manage final art handoff to print procurement partner/printer, ensuring that all final assets being turned over have been routed and approved by all key stakeholders and match the deliverables. Assist in the approval of printer proofs.
• Work collaboratively and communicate with all stakeholders daily to quickly identify and resolve any obstacles or adversity that may arise that could potentially jeopardize the timely completion and/or final quality of the finished project.

• 3-5 years as a Project Manager, Coordinator, or in a related role managing cross-functional teams
• 3-5 years in an e-commerce environment - digital, creative agency experience is ideal
• Case-study portfolio recommended but not required
• Experience with Workfront, SmartSheets, Microsoft Office Suite
• Be a team player, willing to pitch in at any level.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and excellent time management skills.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills