Our newest client is a full-service advertising agency with a rich, 30-year history in Pittsburgh who is looking for a Project Manager to supervise the production of campaign deliverables to clients of their active, fast-paced agency.
The ideal candidate is someone with an agency background who has strong organizational skills and knowledge of the creative process for print, outdoor, events, and with broadcast and video production. This individual will help guide all projects through the creative process, building schedules and keeping internal and external resources to timelines, budgets and scopes, handling multiple projects at once.
We need a detail-driven, highly-organized individual to traffic a wide range of creative jobs through the agency and keep their colleagues and vendors motivated and on task.
The Project Manager will report to the firm's Creative Director and work directly within the Account and Creative Service teams.
You would be responsible for estimating, planning, coordination, trafficking, implementation, execution, and completion of design, production and deliverables for specific marketing campaigns, ensuring consistency with company standards and client expectations and commitments.
COMPENSATION
- Competitive base pay driven by your experience
- Excellent health, dental and vision insurance
- Retirement package opportunities upon qualification
- Bonus(s) at management discretion
- Paid vacation
RESPONSIBILITIES
- You must be passionate about your work and demonstrate an ability to lead concurrent projects of varying size and complexity
- Youre a very organized, detail-oriented, and resourceful individual with excellent communication skills, comfortable communicating in person, via phone, email or text
- You thrive in a deadline-driven environment and can demonstrate the poise, professionalism and confidence required to move projects forward respectfully
- Plan, scope, estimate, schedule, and execute all assigned projects and campaigns
- Participate in creative reviews and lead executions
- Distribute tasks, briefs, assignments and weekly status reports
- Work with vendors and internal stakeholders to manage production budgets, logistics, compliance and content distribution
- Create project tracking files, assign project numbers, issue project instruction sheets and open job workflow files
- Manage overall team resource forecasting to ensure timely delivery of projects
- Enhance department organization by identifying and implementing best-in-class practices
- Collaborate with account, creative, digital and media teams to determine plans, schedules, timelines and deliverables
- Enhance/expand/maintain external relationships and resources (freelancers, printers, promotional product vendors, production vendors, etc).
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of professional experience in a marketing agency production-related environment
- Bachelors degree in communications, marketing, public relations or equivalent job-related experience
- Strong proofreading, research and quality assurance skills
- Rich experience in client and vendor relations and interacting with creative and graphic design teams
- Experience with Advantage advertising agency software is a plus
This organization is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.