Client Overview
A leading retail company known for its iconic brand and extensive consumer reach. The company excels in delivering innovative marketing campaigns that engage diverse audiences. It fosters a collaborative culture focused on creativity and operational excellence and is looking for a Project Manager Assistant.
Salary/Hourly Rate
$30/hr
Position Overview
The Project Manager Assistant will join our client's team on a 6-12 month contract, with the option to extend, working at the client's site 4 days onsite and 1 day remote (Fridays). This person will act as the key liaison between marketing, creative, and media teams to plan and execute campaign assets. This role drives workflow, maintains project visibility, and ensures alignment across stakeholders. It translates campaign strategy into actionable plans, enabling teams to meet deadlines efficiently.
Responsibilities Of The Project Manager Assistant
- Lead cross-functional workflows for marketing campaigns, managing multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholders.
- Develop and manage comprehensive project schedules, identifying key milestones, risks, and dependencies.
- Define campaign deliverables, timelines, and expectations, driving execution to meet key milestones.
- Maintain project visibility through clear documentation and provide weekly status updates and meeting recaps.
- Align stakeholders across marketing, creative, and media teams as the central point of contact, driving accountability.
- Facilitate communication and feedback by capturing decisions and translating inputs into clear action items.
- Troubleshoot and resolve cross-functional challenges, proactively surfacing risks and removing obstacles.
- Ensure process adherence while identifying opportunities to optimize workflows and improve efficiency.
Required Experience/Skills For The Project Manager Assistant
- 3-4+ years of experience in project/program management, creative operations, or brand marketing with an agency management focus.
- Experience managing campaign execution across multiple platforms, ensuring seamless creative asset integration.
- Deep understanding of 360-degree campaign execution including digital, social, video, in-store, and experiential marketing.
- Strong leadership and communication skills to influence and drive alignment across stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in retail, fashion, or consumer brand marketing preferred.
- Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies; Adobe Workfront experience is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Preferred Experience/Skills For The Project Manager Assistant
- Experience fostering collaboration and innovation within cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of consumer behavior and current industry marketing trends.
- Ability to adapt in ambiguous situations with a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
- Skilled in stakeholder relationship management and operational excellence.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Benefits
- Atrium Care Package available, upon eligibility (including healthcare plans, discount programs, and paid time off).