Creative Project Manager

Aquent is partnering with a leading global enterprise at the forefront of innovation, shaping market trends and connecting with consumers worldwide through iconic brands. This company is renowned for its dynamic environment and commitment to excellence, where creativity and strategic execution drive impactful results.

Are you a master orchestrator of creative vision, ready to make a tangible impact on globally recognized brands? We are seeking a highly skilled individual to step into a pivotal role, instrumental in bringing groundbreaking creative initiatives to life. In this position, you will be the driving force behind integrated creative projects, guiding them from initial concept to flawless execution. Your strategic oversight will directly elevate brand presence and deepen consumer engagement, empowering creative and marketing teams to deliver campaigns that resonate across the globe. This is your opportunity to streamline workflows, manage complex timelines, and foster seamless collaboration, directly shaping the future of our creative output.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management & Creative Operations

• Lead end-to-end project management for integrated marketing campaigns, product launches, digital initiatives, and creative productions.
• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocations, ensuring projects remain on schedule.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects across digital, social, customer relationship management, e-commerce, retail, print, packaging, and video.
• Monitor project health, proactively identify risks and bottlenecks, and recommend solutions before issues impact delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional approvals, ensuring projects move efficiently through creative, legal, regulatory, and marketing review processes.
• Maintain project management systems, ensuring project data, timelines, milestones, and resources remain accurate and up to date.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with creative, brand marketing, digital, e-commerce, social, product development, medical, and global teams to successfully execute integrated campaigns.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between internal stakeholders, creative teams, external agencies, and production partners.
• Facilitate project kickoffs, status meetings, creative reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Build strong relationships across teams while aligning priorities and managing competing business needs.

Creative Briefing & Workflow Management

• Lead the development and/or facilitation of creative briefs by partnering with marketing stakeholders to define objectives, deliverables, target audiences, timelines, and success metrics.
• Standardize briefing processes and templates to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Translate business needs into actionable creative projects, ensuring teams have the information needed for successful execution.
• Continuously evaluate and improve creative workflows, documentation, and operational processes.

Asset & Content Management

• Coordinate creative deliverables across campaigns, ensuring assets are delivered accurately and on time.
• Manage asset organization, metadata, file naming conventions, and uploads within digital asset management systems.
• Maintain creative documentation, templates, standard operating procedures, and shared resources to support team collaboration.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews to ensure deliverables meet brand, technical, and regulatory standards.

Reporting & Operational Excellence

• Track project status, team capacity, resource utilization, and key operational metrics.
• Support forecasting for creative production and operational initiatives.
• Prepare executive-ready reporting, presentations, meeting agendas, and project updates.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and attention to detail across all project documentation and communications.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate is a highly organized, adaptable project manager who thrives on bringing clarity to complexity and empowering creative teams to do their best work. Success in this role requires someone who:

• Thrives in environments with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business needs.
• Is proactive, resourceful, and consistently looks ahead to anticipate challenges.
• Possesses exceptional organizational skills and can manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously.
• Is naturally curious and excited by emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and new ways of working.
• Adapts quickly as tools, workflows, software, and processes evolve.
• Brings structure without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Communicates confidently with stakeholders at all levels and builds trust across cross-functional teams.
• Maintains exceptional attention to detail while never losing sight of the bigger picture.
• Stays calm under pressure and remains flexible in a fast-moving, high-volume environment.
• Demonstrates a collaborative, positive attitude with a strong customer-service mindset and willingness to jump in wherever needed.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
• 5-7 years of experience managing creative, marketing, or integrated projects within an agency or fast-paced in-house creative organization.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while balancing changing priorities.
• Experience working with creative teams, designers, copywriters, producers, and marketing stakeholders.
• Advanced experience with leading project management platforms such as Asana, Monday.com, Workfront, or Smartsheet.
• Strong Microsoft Office and Google Workspace skills, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with creative production workflows across digital, print, video, and social media.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience supporting cross-functional creative teams in beauty, luxury, fashion, retail, consumer goods, or lifestyle brands.
• Experience with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems.
• Comfortable learning and adopting AI-powered productivity and creative tools as workflows continue to evolve.

About Aquent Talent

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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