Associate Creative Project Manager

GALLO; Modesto (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Employee wine shop access

Job summary

GALLO Creative seeks an Associate Project Manager in Modesto, CA to own creative projects end to end across packaging, brand development, activations, POS, and digital. You will work with Brand Marketing, Commerce Marketing, and Corporate clients to scope, plan, and deliver on time and on budget.

You should have proven ability to run complex projects with ownership, strong client interfacing skills, and experience managing timelines, budgets, and resources in a fast-paced, cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 4 years in marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma with increasing responsibility.
• Ability to interface with clients to scope business needs and formulate project plans.
• Proficiency in timelines, budgets, resource trafficking, and workflows.
• Ability to manage straightforward to mid-complexity projects start to finish on time and on budget.
• Excellent time-management and multi-project coordination capabilities.
• Autonomy and strong teamwork in a fast-paced environment.
• Customer-oriented with strong organizational skills and follow-through.
• Strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving, and relationship-building.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 apps including Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Own creative projects end to end across packaging renovations, brand development, activations, POS, and digital.
• Scope work, build timelines, manage budgets and resources, align cross-functional teams.
• Identify risks early and maintain quality while keeping work moving.
• Translate client needs into actionable plans for creative teams from brief to shelf.

Skills

Client interfacing

Project management

Time management

Independent worker

Multitasking

Communication

Microsoft 365

Education

Bachelor's degree + 4 years of experience in marketing/creative

High school diploma + 8 years of experience in marketing/creative

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Job Req ID: 107762

Job Type: Full-time

Work Category: Hybrid Telecommute,

Application Close Date: 11/27/2026

Sponsorship: Not Available

Compensation: $85,200 - $127,800

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We are GALLO

We're a family-owned company with a 90+ year legacy, that’s consistently recognized as a Glassdoor 'Best Places to Work.' We have 130+ brands in our total alcohol beverage portfolio including wine, malt, spirits, and ready-to-drink beverages. We're home to the #1 wine and spirits brands in the U.S. - Barefoot Wine & High Noon and are the official sponsors of the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America.

View our Corporate Values and Mission Statement here.

Location: Must be willing and able to be based in Modesto, CA (Requires 3 days per week onsite)

A Taste of What You'll Do

Join Gallo Creative and help bring some of the world's most recognized wine and spirits brands to life across a portfolio of 50+ labels. As an Associate Project Manager, you'll own creative projects end to end across packaging renovations, brand development, activations, POS, and digital, partnering with Brand Marketing, Commerce Marketing, and Corporate clients from scope through final delivery.

This is a role for someone who has already proven they can run complex, concurrent projects with real ownership. You'll scope work, build and hold timelines, manage budgets and resources, and keep cross-functional creative teams aligned when priorities shift. You'll be the person who spots the risk three weeks out, has the hard conversation early, and keeps the work moving without losing the quality bar.

Day to day, you'll sit at the intersection of creative, production, and strategy. You'll translate what clients need into plans creative teams can execute against, influence stakeholders who don't report to you, and give leadership clear visibility into where everything stands. You'll get a front-row seat to how brands actually get built, from the brief to the shelf.

How you've worked matters more to us than where. You might come from an agency, an in-house marketing team, or a creative studio, campaign work, or a business you built yourself. What we're looking for is evidence that you've carried complex projects end to end, held your position with stakeholders, and developed the planning discipline that keeps work on track. Creative or brand experience is a strong plus, though not a requirement. Curiosity is. The right person wants to understand why a package looks the way it does, what makes an activation land, and how a brand stays consistent across every customer touchpoint.

If you're looking to bring your project management craft into one of the largest family-owned wineries in the world, and you want to build a long-term career at the intersection of creative and brand strategy, we'd like to meet you.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree plus 4 years of marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of Gallo brand marketing, corporate communications, sales account management, creative design, hospitality, or media/digital marketing reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR high school diploma or state-issued equivalency certificate plus 8 years of marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• Ability to interface with clients to scope business needs and formulate project plans that meet those needs.
• Proficiency with the tenets of project management—establishing timelines and budgets, scheduling resources, trafficking deliverables, and facilitating workflows.
• Ability to work independently to manage straightforward to mid-complexity projects start to finish, ensuring work is delivered on time and on budget.
• Excellent time-management skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a fast-paced, multi-functional team.
• Customer oriented with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, problem-resolution skills, and relationship building.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 productivity apps including Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

How You'll Stand Out

• Bachelor's degree plus 6 years of marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of Gallo brand marketing, corporate communications, sales account management, creative design, hospitality, or media/digital marketing reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
• 2 years of experience in project management across print and digital.
• PMP certification from a recognized professional project management training organization.
• External agency experience—specifically, managing and/or trafficking projects on behalf of assorted clients.
• Experience using an automated workflow system to monitor and manage projects.
• Knowledge and understanding of POS, Marketing and Sales functions.

Our Benefits & Perks

We are committed to providing competitive compensation, perks, and a culture that supports your well-being. Benefits depend on your work category and may include medical and dental coverage, 401k plans, profit sharing, pet insurance, company holidays, access to an employee wine shop, and more! Additional information will be provided before your first interview.

The Fine Print

• The Company does not sponsor for employment-based visas for this position now or in the future.
• We offer a broad salary range to allow for long-term growth. Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by multiple factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors. In addition to the salary, this position may be eligible for bonuses, incentive plans, or participate in tasting room tip pools, as applicable.
• This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting with an option for occasional telecommuting. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.
• It is the Company's policy for job postings to be open to internal candidates for a minimum of 5 days and to external candidates, if applicable, for a minimum of 3 days.

Gallo's policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibiting discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at 209.341.7000.

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