Location: North Chicago, IL - Hybrid (Onsite Tues, Wed, Thurs)

Contract Length: 3 months (with extension based off performance).

Pay: $38 (with healthcare benefits and 401K included at cost)

Work Schedule: 8am - 5pm CST

Creative Project Manager

Ensures scheduling and resourcing against small to large scale creative projects. Oversees facets of single or multiple, multidimensional, mission-critical projects through the creative project lifecycle. Collaborate/work with accounts managers to identify project scope and focus, develop or monitor project initiatives, implement project requirements/plans/processes/tools, assign/guide/monitor project staff, and assure project success. Uphold quality assurance to all creative project solutions from start to finish and be able to distinguish and solution for issues within defined budgets and/or timelines. Provide expert project support proactively through project completion.

The Project Manager works closely with their assigned account manager to help coordinate daily activities and the ongoing relationship with their respective brand teams.

Responsibilities:

PROJECT/PROCESS MANAGEMENT:

• Assist on print, digital and video projects, including trafficking all projects through the Agency
• Help facilitate ongoing, timely and accurate communications to ensure all projects are completed on time and within budget
• Assist with providing estimates and timelines
• Assist with billing and ensure billing is completed on schedule
• Track time on a daily basis

ACCOUNTABILITY / SCOPE:

• Reports to their assigned company Ad Agency account manager
• Partners with creative team on project initiatives
• Adherence to all company-wide financial policies

Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

• Bachelor degree required
• 3 years' experience with project scheduling in an advertising agency or corporate creative department (minimum) OR at least 3 years pharmaceutical marketing experience
• Trafficking and resourcing in a creative agency
• Budgeting and estimating hours for creative projects
• Excellent communications skills: verbal, presentation, written
• Proven ability to manage more than 10 projects at a time in various stages of production
• High energy, positive, organized individual
• Great collaborator with ability to focus on both the big picture and small details
• Proven attention to detail against data entry
• Strong communications skills
• Understanding of creative projects: digital and print
• Technical skills: Mac, Project Management software
• Understanding of agile project management

Our role in supporting diversity and inclusion
As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair and respectful treatment.