Project Manager (Media Agencies / Creative Agencies Experience), 3 months contract

Our client, a market leader in the AI and Tech space, is looking for a Project Manager to join the program management team. The candidate will work closely with creative leads across APAC to deliver on global priorities. This is a 3-month contract with a high possibility of renewal.

Candidates with prior experience working as a project manager either in or partnering with creative media agencies will have an added advantage. Prior experience working on projects in the China market will be an added advantage.

Responsibilities:

• Management and leadership of creative projects/programs and deliverables.
• Drive creative process from the creative brief development till delivery, ensuring good collaboration and advocating for good creative work throughout the process.
• Collaborate with creative leadership and other cross-functional partners to assure deliverables are on message, on goal, and show measurable business impact.
• Develop project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring creative as well as technical feasibility.
• Develop timing plans to track project progress.
• Validate resource availability and allocation through consistent monitoring and assessment of resource skill sets based on deliverables in partnership with Creative Leads.
• Coordinate and manage internal and/or agency resources for the flawless execution of single projects or projects within a program.
• Perform risk management to minimize program risks, conducted during planning and throughout the year to assure program/portfolio health.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.

Requirements:

• Ideally 10 years of project management experience in the Creative or Social Media space.
• Expertise in delivering campaigns.
• Strong multi-tasking ability.
• Experience and strong understanding of the marketing funnel/marketing flywheel and how project management can influence planning based on it.
• Outstanding communication skills across all levels and disciplines within the organization, including expectation setting, providing feedback, and communicating impact.
• Ability to operate impactfully in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment with confidence.
• Expertise in global impact programs and initiatives.
• Expertise in creative project management processes, and the ability to develop unique processes based on business needs.
• An inquisitive, creative, and strategic mind focused on proactively solutioning.
• Management of large-scale programs with multiple deliverables end to end is a must.
• Experience with multi-region projects with high needs for localization across a large number of assets.
• Familiarity with dealing with stakeholders from different time zones.

Good To Have:

• Experience working with China as a market.