Creative Project Manager

Position Overview

K18 is seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented Creative Project Manager to support the creative development of visual merchandising (VM) and packaging initiatives. This role champions creative workflow systems specific to visual merchandising and packaging — where you will manage select projects end-to-end, overseeing resourcing, creative milestones, iteration rounds, and final delivery.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage all the details throughout packaging, VM and print production related projects, ensuring all action-items are accomplished timely and accurately
• Responsible for scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling projects
• Develop, manage, and continuously adjust detailed project timelines to ensure creative milestones, cross-functional dependencies, and production deadlines are met
• Sets clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
• Working knowledge of creative needs and expectations
• Identify where altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and efficiencies can be gained
• Assess needs and distribute work within a group from concept, development, approval and final production
• Collaborate daily with creative team and stakeholder counterparts
• Manages resource planning, engaging freelancers as needed
• Review and/or assist in developing Wrike creative requests
• Demonstrate good judgment in choosing methods of communication that are most effective and efficient within the team
• Able to track and analyze data related to creative output and provide insights into trends and help forecast for future needs

Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in Creative Project Management either in-house or at a creative agency
• 1+ years experience using Wrike project management tool
• Proven ability to work on multiple projects at a time within a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills
• Works well without supervision
• Thorough understanding of the design + creative production processes
• Must be able to work cooperatively with others and perform other job-related duties when assigned
• In-house experience in the beauty or fashion industry is a plus
• Experience working closely with visual merchandising and production teams also a plus

Salary Range: up to 95k (in USD $)

This range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. The actual base salary will depend on numerous factors such as: experience, knowledge and skills, and if the location of the job changes.

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