Creative Operations Manager

Seton; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Generous 401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave and fertility coverage

Job summary

Brady Corporation in Milwaukee seeks a Creative Operations Manager to streamline incoming creative requests, optimize workflows, and allocate resources across regional marketing teams.

You will own global project intake, track velocity, monitor bandwidth, and coordinate with external agencies and freelancers using tools like Lytho, Basecamp, Asana, and Workfront to drive cross-functional efficiency and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in creative operations, traffic management, or creative project management within an agency or in-house creative team.
• Proven history of optimizing creative intake, capacity planning, and workflow systems for cross-functional marketing and design teams.
• Deep experience tracking velocity, turnaround times, and bandwidth trends to identify operational bottlenecks and inform staffing decisions.
• Hands-on experience administering and optimizing creative project management software (e.g., Lytho, Basecamp, Asana, Workfront).
• Proven capability to manage scoping, timelines, and handoffs across external agencies, freelancers, and extended creative teams.

Responsibilities

• Global Project Intake: Single entry point for incoming creative requests, auditing submissions to ensure briefs are fully fleshed out before work begins.
• Resource Planning: Track velocity, turnaround times, and bandwidth trends to identify operational bottlenecks and inform future staffing decisions.
• Traffic Management: Monitor real-time bandwidth across team and projects to balance workloads and meet key deadlines.
• Marketing Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for regional marketing teams, setting clear delivery expectations and fielding status updates.
• Workflow & Systems Management: Administer and optimize project management tools (e.g., Lytho, Basecamp) to maintain asset and process visibility.
• Partner & Vendor Coordination: Manage handoffs, timelines, and scoping for external agencies, freelancers and extended teams.
• Project prioritization: Support and facilitate quarterly project prioritization sessions with regional and divisional stakeholders.

Job description

Brady Corporation is seeking a Creative Operations Manager to streamline incoming creative requests, optimize workflow systems, and manage resource allocation across regional marketing teams. The ideal candidate brings experience in creative traffic management and project operations within an agency or in-house environment to drive cross-functional efficiency.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Global Project Intake: Single entry point for incoming creative requests, auditing submissions to ensure briefs are fully fleshed out before work begins.
• Resource Planning: Track velocity, turnaround times, and bandwidth trends to identify operational bottlenecks and inform future staffing decisions.
• Traffic Management: Monitor real-time bandwidth across team and projects to balance workloads and meet key deadlines.
• Marketing Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact for regional marketing teams, setting clear delivery expectations and fielding status updates.
• Workflow & Systems Management: Administer and optimize project management tools (e.g., Lytho, Basecamp) to maintain asset and process visibility.
• Partner & Vendor Coordination: Manage handoffs, timelines, and scoping for external agencies, freelancers and extended teams.
• Project prioritization: Support and facilitate quarterly project prioritization sessions with regional and divisional stakeholders.

What You Will Need To Be Successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in creative operations, traffic management, or creative project management within an agency or in-house creative team
• Proven history of optimizing creative intake, capacity planning, and workflow systems for cross-functional marketing and design teams.
• Deep experience tracking velocity, turnaround times, and bandwidth trends to identify operational bottlenecks and inform staffing decisions.
• Active experience monitoring real-time team bandwidth across concurrent projects to rebalance workloads and consistently meet deadlines.
• Hands‑on experience administering and optimizing creative project management software (e.g., Lytho, Basecamp, Asana, Workfront) to ensure complete visibility into assets and processes.
• Proven capability to manage scoping, timelines, and handoffs across external agencies, freelancers, and extended creative teams.
• Demonstrated success acting as the primary liaison to regional marketing teams, establishing clear delivery expectations, and communicating status updates.
• Strong problem‑solving abilities to establish operational clarity, streamline complex cross‑departmental workflows, and drive consensus among regional and divisional stakeholders.

About Us:

Who we are:
Brady Corporation is a global industrial technology leader dedicated to making workplaces safer, more productive, and more connected. Backed by a 110+ year legacy of reliability and innovation, we have entered an exciting era of transformation and growth, powered by more than 10,000 team members serving customers across 40+ countries. Following our acquisition of Honeywell's Productivity Solutions and Services business in August 2026, Brady brings together trusted leadership in safety, materials science, and identification with advanced mobile computing, scanning, and automation. We help organizations make work safer, more productive, and more connected by transforming everyday critical information into actionable intelligence. Our end‑to‑end platform unites two powerful pillars:

• Identification Solutions: High-performance labels, safety signs, engineered materials, and rugged industrial printing systems.
• Intelligent Productivity Solutions: Industry‑leading mobile computers, barcode/RFID scanners, specialized software, voice automation, and workflow services.

From aerospace, healthcare, and laboratories to manufacturing plants, retail, data centers, and global transportation and logistics hubs, we empower customers to identify, protect, track, and optimize the people, assets, and processes that keep the world running. Why work at Brady:
A career at Brady means working for a global company that has thrived for over 100 years, and whose innovative spirit drives our future growth.

Brady offers competitive pay and great benefits, supported by a culture that encourages collaboration and innovation. We strive to foster an inclusive workplace where diverse talent can learn, grow, and succeed. And with deeply rooted values, no matter where you work at Brady, you'll feel connected to the community through our charitable contributions and opportunities to give back.

Our headquarters are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but we have more than 70 locations globally, giving our employees the opportunity to work with colleagues around the world.

• Comprehensive insurance coverage starting on your first day of employment, including medical, dental, and vision
• Generous 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and holidays
• Opportunity to participate in incentive programs for all full‑time employees
• Family planning benefits including paid parental leave, fertility coverage, adoption and surrogacy assistance
• Scholarship program for children of Brady employees
• A variety of Employee Resource Groups to provide you with unique networking, development, and volunteer opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program and related wellness programs (mental and behavioral health, family counseling, financial management)
• Dress‑for‑your‑day dress code
• Charitable contributions matched through Brady's Matching Gift program