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

Optimum Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the AI and Tech space is seeking an experienced Project Manager for a 3-month contract with potential renewal. This role involves managing creative projects across APAC, collaborating with various stakeholders, and delivering impactful campaigns. Candidates with a strong background in creative media and understanding of the China market will be favored.

Qualifications

• 10 years of project management experience in the Creative or Social Media space.
• Strong understanding of the marketing funnel and project management's influence on planning.
• Ability to manage large-scale programs with multiple deliverables end to end.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative projects/programs and ensure good collaboration.
• Develop project scope and objectives, coordinating stakeholders.
• Perform risk management to minimize program risks.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Multi-tasking

Risk Management

Creative Process Management

Job description

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-months contract with high possibility off 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.

• Management and leadership of creative projects/programs and deliverables.
• Drive creative process from the creative brief development till delivering, ensuring good collaboration and advocating for good creative work throughout the process.
• Collaborates with creative leadership and other cross functional partners to assure deliverables are on message, on goal, and show measurable business impact.
• Develops project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring creative as well as technical feasibility, including
• Development of timing plans to track project progress.
• Validates resource availability and allocation through consistent monitoring and assessment of resource skill sets based on deliverables in partnership with Creative Leads.
• Coordinates and manages internal and/or agency resources for the flawless execution of single projects or projects within a program.
• Performs risk management to minimize program risks. (This is conducted during planning and throughout the year to assure program/portfolio health).
• Reports and escalates to management as needed

Requirements:

• Ideally 10 years of project management experience in the Creative or Social Media space.
• Expertise with 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). Inclusive of expectation setting, providing feedback, and communicating impact.
• Ability to operate impactfully in a fast paced and ambiguous environment with confidence.
• Expertise with 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.
• Delt with multi-region projects with high needs for localisation across a large number of assets.
• Familiar with dealing with stakeholders from different timezones.

Good To Have:

• Experience working with China as a market