Marketing Project Specialist

Mohawk Industries, Inc.; Calhoun (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mohawk Industries, a Fortune 500, global flooring leader, seeks a Marketing Project Specialist to coordinate creative requests and manage end-to-end project workflows. You will bridge business partners and creative resources, ensuring scope, timing, and quality meet expectations.

You’ll manage intake, define deliverables, and drive projects through Adobe Workfront, maintaining communication with stakeholders and keeping milestones on track.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/experience preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in project coordination, traffic management, or marketing operations.
• PMP certification is a plus but not required; experience with creative workflows is preferred.
• Adobe Workfront experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage intake of all creative and design requests ensuring required information, scope, deliverables, and timing needs are captured.
• Clarify project scope, deliverables, timelines, and expectations with stakeholders before kickoff.
• Convert approved requests into detailed project plans and timelines within Adobe Workfront.
• Traffic active projects across creative resources and monitor progress against timelines.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders on status, timing, and risks.

Skills

Project management

Creative traffic management

Workflow coordination

Resource planning

Stakeholder management

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent education

Tools

Adobe Workfront

Project management platforms

Job description

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Marketing Project Specialist

Date: Sep 1, 2026

Are you looking for more?

At Mohawk Industries, we’re committed to more – more customer solutions, more process improvements, more sustainable manufacturing and more opportunities for our team.

As a Fortune 500, global flooring leader with some of the best-known brands in the industry, Mohawk is a great place to start or develop your career with an emphasis on more of what’s important to you. Whether you want to lead more, innovate more, learn more or create more, you can find your more with Mohawk.

What we need:

The Marketing Project Specialist serves as the central coordinator for all creative and design requests entering the organization through our project management software. This role manages intake, prioritization, project setup, timeline coordination, workload visibility, stakeholder communication, and workflow execution. The position acts as the bridge between business partners and creative resources, ensuring requests are properly scoped, prioritized, assigned, and delivered on time.

What You'll do:

• Manage intake of all creative and design requests submitted ensuring required information, scope, deliverables, and timing needs are captured before work is assigned
• Partner with requestors and cross-functional stakeholders to clarify project scope, define deliverables, establish realistic timelines, and align expectations before project kickoff
• Convert approved and fully scoped requests into detailed project plans, timelines, assignments, review steps, and approval workflows within Adobe Workfront
• Traffic active projects across creative resources, monitor progress against timelines, coordinate review cycles, and help ensure deadlines are met
• Maintain clear and frequent communication with stakeholders on project status, timing, review needs, priority shifts, risks, and resource constraints
• Maintain project plans to maintain a system of record for intake, project details, timelines, assignments, review/proofing status, approvals, notes, and reporting
• Identify and elevate any project-related issues, concerns, or risks to the appropriate team members or leadership in a timely manner
• Facilitate collaboration by bringing the right people together to make decisions and overcome obstacles
• Proactively identify next steps and solutions to prevent projects from stalling and keep them moving forward
• Support creative resources by helping remove workflow roadblocks, clarifying next steps, and ensuring project information is complete and actionable
• Perform other Creative PMO, traffic management, and workflow coordination duties as needed
• Support prioritization discussions by providing visibility to project volume, workload, capacity, competing priorities, and timing constraints
• Drive adherence to established creative processes, templates, workflows, review steps, and approval paths.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent education and/or experience preferred
• 3+ years of experience in project coordination, traffic management, creative operations, marketing operations, or project management within a marketing, agency, creative services, or in-house creative environment
• PMP certification is a plus but not required; experience managing creative workflows, intake processes, or project management platforms is preferred
• Adobe Workfront experience strongly preferred

What you're good at:

• Foundational understanding of project management, creative traffic management, workflow coordination, and resource planning principles
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time effectively in a fast-paced environment
• A collaborative, team-player attitude with the ability to adapt to change
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office Suite products
• Experience with Adobe Workfront or similar project management, proofing, intake, or workflow management systems is strongly preferred
• A high degree of professionalism, resourcefulness, and a proactive mindset
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to balance business needs, creative capacity, and shifting priorities
• Ability to manage a high volume of concurrent requests while maintaining accuracy, urgency, and clear communication
• Experience working with designers, copywriters, digital teams, photographers, production partners, and other creative resources preferred
• Process improvement mindset with a focus on efficiency, visibility, governance, and operational excellence

What else?

Disclaimer: The information in this description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Mohawk Industries is a leading global flooring manufacturer that creates products to enhance residential and commercial spaces around the world. Mohawk’s vertically integrated manufacturing and distribution processes provide competitive advantages in the production of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring. Our industry-leading innovation has yielded products and technologies that differentiate our brands in the marketplace and satisfy all remodeling and new construction requirements. Our brands are among the most recognized in the industry and include American Olean, Daltile, Durkan, IVC, Karastan, Marazzi, Mohawk, Mohawk Home, Pergo, and Quick-Step. During the past decade, Mohawk has transformed its business from an American carpet manufacturer into the world’s largest flooring company with operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zel