Our client, a luxury beauty brand, is seeking a Creative Operations Consultant. You will manage projects for the in-house creative team and must have knowledge of the consumer marketing process, including print and digital, from initiation through final execution. This is a contracted role based out of NYC.

Responsibilities:

Collaborates 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.
Monitors out of scope requests, variations (global), initiates additional estimates and approvals.
Monitors and prioritizes scope and execution of work.
Coordinate with cross-functional partners within creative, marketing, GBSC and Sales.
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 personnel 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.
Coordinate media assets to appropriate vendors.
Manage assigned projects, involved with client projects from start to finish, ensuring successful project completion against deadlines.
Works with team and / or program manager to best determine project timelines to ensure coordinated efforts across program is being completed.
Asset Management, sourcing through final delivery
Attend and contribute to Creative Operations meetings and Creative Department meetings.
Attend marketing meetings, and / or assigned department related status meetings (i.e. marketing & creative operations meetings.
Work closely with outside vendors (re-touchers, publications, color houses, printers, binderies) to ensure delivery to market and that all final artwork deadlines are met.
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.

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Digital or Broadcast production
Minimum of 5 years experience as a producer or project manager in a creative agency, in-house or production environment (consumer marketing environment)
Experience in integrated marketing preferred
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.

Please submit a resume and portfolio for consideration.

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