Global Creative Operations Lead

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 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.