Senior Analyst, Project Management - Creative Project Manager, Walmart Creative Studio

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Creative Project Management is the internal creative group engine, linking all functions, and managing work flows end-to-end to deliver all campaigns and initiatives with excellence. Creative Project Managers work closely with Creative Account Management, Creatives, and Integrated Production daily to ensure that projects are moving seamlessly through the system and that anticipated challenges are addressed early.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with account management on project intake ensuring that resources are appropriately assigned, and jobs are opened in Workfront.
• Develop detailed project schedules, working with account, creative and production team members on input and alignment.
• Keep project team updated on key milestones, timeline shifts, and changes in deliverables.
• Drive projects from beginning to end and be the “go-to” person on project status.
• Provide detailed support for the creative team and be a “righthand” to the creative lead through the creative development process.
• Ensure project milestones and documents are updated in Workfront as projects progress through the agency.
• Lead internal status meetings and share status documents to ensure clarity of weekly milestones, meetings, and deliverables.
• Call out scheduling, resourcing or other potential challenges well in advance and offer solutions.
• Follow up with creative and production teams to ensure they have the assets needed to get the job done. Ensure that the teams are working toward key milestones.
• Liaise with other Creative Account Management & Operations leads to ensure work is being routed to appropriate partners while in development (legal, trademark, Corp Comms, etc.).
• Communicate strongly and effectively with cross-functional partners and escalate to creative leadership when needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2-3 years of project management experience at an advertising agency or in-house creative group.
• Experience leading a high volume of projects ranging from branding and conceptual development to tactical execution.
• Experience with Workfront or similar PM software preferred.

Traits:

• High accountability – a successful PM will “own” their projects from intake to completion.
• Presence & urgency – brings a sense of presence to the meetings they attend and the emails they write while also showing urgency with the consistency and speed by which they respond to requests, needs, and meetings invites.
• Servant leader – able to lead project teams and hold team members accountable while understanding they aren’t decision makers of the creative work.
• Solutions-oriented – creative problem solver that supports overcoming hurdles with a sense of calm.
• Relationship manager – Skilled at establishing and maintaining relationships with partners and peers at all levels.
• Master negotiator – understands the levers to pull when developing and managing timelines, deliverables, and feedback.
• Entrepreneurial – this function is new to the organization and the right candidate will have the desire to build, test, and learn while adding value to the creative group.
• Can run blind – with significant change happening t