Project Manager (Assets At Scale/Adaptations)

Firewood Marketing, Inc.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading integrated production agency in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Project Manager. The role involves managing high-volume creative outputs, overseeing project execution, and ensuring quality across digital and print advertising. Ideal candidates will possess strong organisational skills and a proven track record in the advertising production landscape.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in project management in digital advertising or production.
• Proficient in project management tools (e.g., Asana, Monday, Jira).
• Familiarity with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage the successful delivery of digital, print, and retail advertising assets.
• Oversee multi-channel deliverables, ensuring timely and budget-compliant execution.
• Implement best practices in project management and quality control.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Stress Management

Job description

Project Manager (Assets At Scale/Adaptations) • Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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About the Role

Monks is hiring for a Project Manager.

We are an integrated production agency specialising in assets at scale. We deliver high-volume, high-quality creative outputs across channels, ensuring efficiency and brand consistency. Our work powers household name brands, turning complex briefs into seamless, scalable solutions. You'll manage the successful delivery of digital, print and retail advertising assets for the biggest brands in the world.

We are looking for a Project Manager with exceptional organisational skills and a proven track record in managing large-scale creative production. You will be responsible for overseeing multi-channel deliverables, ensuring projects are executed on time, within budget and to the highest quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Execution:
• Develop and manage detailed project timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Ensure projects adhere to scope, budget, and deadlines, while maintaining creative integrity.
• Translate client briefs into actionable workflows for creative and production teams.
• You will be managing fast-moving design and animation projects on an international scale.
• Familiarity with Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems and taxonomy, file naming conventions and excellent at it.
  
  
• Client & Stakeholder Management:
• Serve as the key point of contact for your direct clients, fostering strong relationships.
• Align internal and external stakeholders on project goals, deliverables, and timelines.
• Manage client expectations, providing clear communication on project progress.
  
  
• Resource Coordination:
• Collaborate with internal teams (creative, design, production) to allocate resources effectively.
• Track team bandwidth and ensure proper staffing across all projects.
• Identify potential bottlenecks and proactively resolve resource challenges.
  
  
• Quality Control & Delivery:
• Ensure the delivery of pixel-perfect, brand-consistent creative assets across all platforms.
• Comfortable looking at copy and noting mistakes or correcting them based on clients brief or feedback
• Implement rigorous quality checks at every stage of production.
• Oversee asset management and ensure files are properly organised and delivered.
  
  
• Process Optimisation:
• Continuously improve workflows to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Implement best practices in project management, tracking, and reporting.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities where applicable.
  
  

About You

The Essentials:

• At least 2-5 years of working experience in project management in digital advertising or production has made you fabulous at dealing with stress and phenomenal at communicating with (stressed-out) clients and coworkers.
• You know your stuff when it comes to high-volume, multi-channel creative outputs (managing rich media, programmatic campaigns and dynamic ad creatives).
• You understand the anatomy of display ads and can comprehend spec sheets.
• Strong understanding of creative processes, asset delivery standards, and production workflows.
• You’re a proficient communicator (in English) - able to provide clear updates on the development of projects and knowing how to describe issues and required actions to Monks in other offices.
• You have solid scoping skills, which translate into realistic timings and resource estimates.
• You are proficient in project management tools (eg Asana, Monday, Jira, Salesforce etc) and willing to learn to work on other PM tools
• You are a detailed-oriented person yet able to work with speed. You love efficiencies and effectiveness.
• You’re acquainted with the (post)production of film, image and animation assets for social media.

Not a must, but a plus:

• Proficiency in additional Southeast Asian languages (e.g., Mandarin, Bahasa, Thai & etc.) is an advantage.
• Strong analytical skills to track team and asset delivery performance to drive process efficiencies
• Proficiency in printing and Out-of-Home (DOOH/ OOH) experience is a plus.
  
  
  

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.

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