Job Description

Overview

Creative Project Manager (Temp - Freelance)
Long term contract - 6 months / 30hrs/wk

Remote, United States (but must be available to work PT hours)

What you'll be doing

• Talent Allocation: Work in collaboration with the Creative Lead and Resourcing team to assign creative team members to projects based on their skills, experience, and current workload.
• Workload Management and Forecasting: Monitor assigned creative team capacity (full-time and freelance) to ensure a healthy workload. Forecast future staffing needs based on the project pipeline.
• Process Improvement: Develop and refine project processes, tools, and systems to increase efficiency and transparency across projects in the portfolio.
• Project Kick-off Support: Collaborate with program leads during the initial stages to ensure the right creative team is in place and fully briefed on the project\'s creative and logistical needs.
• Reporting and Analysis: Provide leadership with regular reports on project burn and key metrics to inform business decisions and strategic planning.
• Team Coordination: Assemble and manage the creative team, assigning tasks, and facilitating clear communication to ensure everyone is aligned.
• Post-Mortem Analysis: Conduct a thorough project review after the event to identify successes, failures, and areas for future improvement. Carry those key learnings into project management work across the entire account.

What you will bring to Jack:

• 3-5 years of project management experience in a similar role at an experiential, creative agency, design studio, or event production company.
• Understanding of creative experiential agency work + all the various disciplines therein (2d design, 3d design, digital, motion + video, technical + live show, decor and styling, etc) is a plus
• Able to manage up and down and work across many departments in a large agency.
• Capable of taking an abstract set of parameters and asking the right questions / fact finding in order to distill into clear and actionable next steps.
• A great communicator who is able to get their ideas across while also gracefully giving and taking feedback and applying it.
• Is highly proactive and loves systems and finding efficiencies.
• The ability to stay organized and be able to manage more than one task at once is critical.
• Technical Skills: Must be highly proficient in Google Drive, Sheets, Slides and also proficient in Microsoft (Outlook, Excel, etc). Experience with project management tools is a big plus.

Jack Morton and Genuine are equal opportunity employers;we strongly value diversity at our companies. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. In 2020, Jack Morton and Genuine, as part of Interpublic Group (IPG), have been named to the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index (GEI), and Jack Morton has once again been designated a Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Workplace Equality by the Human Rights Campaign in their Corporate Equality Index.

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