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Cheil Worldwide is the 10th-largest creative agency in the world. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, Cheil was founded by Samsung in 1973 to grow its local and global business. While Samsung is still one of our main clients, our roster has evolved to include other globally recognized brands such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, ESPN, Lego, Nivea, PayPal, Starbucks and many more.
Cheil North America has offices in NYC, Dallas, and Toronto, and serves as the lead agency for all Samsung projects across the continent. Collectively, we are a unified force of creative problem-solvers
Cheil Worldwide is the 10th-largest creative agency in the world. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, Cheil was founded by Samsung in 1973 to grow its local and global business. While Samsung is still one of our main clients, our roster has evolved to include other globally recognized brands such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, ESPN, Lego, Nivea, PayPal, Starbucks and many more.
Cheil North America has offices in NYC, Dallas, and Toronto, and serves as the lead agency for all Samsung projects across the continent. Collectively, we are a unified force of creative problem-solvers
who share a passion for developing ground-breaking ideas rooted in data, driven by insights, and enabled by innovative technology.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The Creative Project Manager will be a key team member, coordinating Creative Project details and deliverables, managing timelines, communicating directly with clients and ensuring the highest quality of creative delivery. This role requires a combination of daily project management, strategic and critical thinking, strong communication skills, keen troubleshooting and proactive problem solving.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The Creative Project Manager will be a key team member, coordinating Creative Project details and deliverables, managing timelines, communicating directly with clients and ensuring the highest quality of creative delivery. This role requires a combination of daily project management, strategic and critical thinking, strong communication skills, keen troubleshooting and proactive problem solving.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the central point of communication for multiple concurrent projects ensuring all team members are on track with deliverables, providing project updates, identifying and troubleshoot timeline risks, and reviewing deliverables for accuracy against project scopes.
- Effectively and efficiently plan and prioritize all deliverables and resources working across projects based on scope of work and project goals.
- Create customized project plans, deployment frameworks, reports, presentations, and other tools to support and organize key elements for client success.
- Effectively lead internal and external meetings (e.g. intake, kick-off, weekly status meeting, capacity planning, etc.), making important, relevant contributions, and generating collaborative discussion to drive action. Thoroughly document meeting outcomes and next steps.
- Report project status to internal and client stakeholders.
- Standardize Quality Assurance processes across workstreams to ensure projects are completed on time and to the highest standard.
- Build strong working relationships across the organization, establishing yourself with internal and client stakeholders as a trusted resource and advisor.
- Be proactive in planning ahead for all possible scenarios.
Skills for success:
- High emotional intelligence, the ability to forge meaningful relationships, and successfully navigate diverse stakeholder groups.
- Highly collaborative, yet skilled at influencing others to achieve results.
- Perform well under pressure with a strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
- Solution-oriented and have a passion for being hands-on in problem-solving and execution.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate within ambiguity.
- Confident in asking for help and escalating issues or concerns appropriately.
- Facilitating and promoting a calm, steady environment to enable and encourage the best work.
- Being an expert listener in all facets of your role and bringing proactive solutions to meet the needs of your team and the agency.
- Embracing creative ways to challenge, inspire, enable, and encourage the team.
Experience to drive change:
- A project management professional with a bachelor’s degree required.
- Certified Project Management (CAPM, CPMP, PPM, PMP) and/or Change Management qualifications (CCMM,CCMP, Prosci, CLARC, etc.) is a plus.
- 5+ years of project management experience in a fast-paced ad agency or marketing department managing multiple cross functional projects simultaneously. Experience working directly with clients is required.
- Experience in Omni-Channel marketing environments with an understanding in the Digital Marketing ecosystem (Website, Email, SEM, SEO, Programmatic and Social Media). Trade show, environmental, and/or event experience is a plus.
- Solid understanding of creative design, campaign management and production processes with a proven ability to use analytical thinking and an innovative mindset to adapt project plans while still delivering on time and within budget.
Project Details (Freelance Temp):
- We anticipate the duration of this engagement to begin immediately and end on or around 5/31/2024.
- The budgeted remuneration for this position is $60 to $70 per hour. While we do not anticipate any need for more than 40 hours per week, there may be potential for either less or more hours during any given week.
- Due to the nature and needs of this particular project, the selected contractor will be required to be on site 4 days per week.
