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Creative Operations Manager

Brand: Lab Series

Description

The ideal candidate will be well versed in managing projects for an in-house creative. The Creative Operations Manager maintains and manages our creative department's consumer marketing projects, by directing and coordinating the day-to-day creative department efforts on assigned projects. In this role, the Creative Operations Manager ensures that the department provides:

• Sound and responsible project management and planning

• Manage scope, timelines, and budgets of assigned projects

• Support of execution of work in all assigned areas

• Art-buying

Responsibilities:

1. Planning :

Collaborate 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

2. Coordinating:

Monitor and prioritize 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 personal 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

3. Project Management:

Manage assigned projects, involved with client projects from start to finish, ensuring successful project completion against deadlines

Works with Directors 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 scop

Asset Management, sourcing through final delivery

Initiate and lead all appropriate project based meetings

Attend and contribute to weekly Creative Operations meeting and creative department meeting

Attend bi-weekly marketing meetings, and/or assigned department related status meeting (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

4. Financial & administrative:

Monitor all internal and external costs for assigned projects

Creates and maintains all project backup, status reports, PO's, estimates, schedules, change orders, technical and production specs, preproduction books and any other associated backup

Manage vendors on assigned projects - create purchase orders, monitor actual vs. budgeted costs

Works with finance to insure proper billing vendor billing

Qualifications

Master's degree in marketing, advertising, digital or broadcast production

Minimum of 8 years experience as a producer or project manager in a creative agency, in-house or production environment

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

Job: Creative / Design

Primary Location: Europe, Middle East, Africa-France

Job Type: Standard

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: 1st (Day) Shift

Job Number: 248648