What are the responsibilities and job description for the Creative Operations Manager position at Koch?
Your Job
The Creative Operations Manager enables the successful execution of creative work at scale by serving as a leader and subject-matter expert for Adobe Workfront, strengthening workflow governance, expanding operational visibility, and building project-management capability across the broader team.
Working within a hub-and-spoke operating model, this role creates the systems, templates, reporting, training, and standards that allow Marketing Managers, Associate Creative Directors, and creative teams to take greater ownership of their projects. The role provides selective project management leadership for larger campaigns, strategic opportunities, and complex cross-functional initiatives where dedicated coordination adds the greatest value.
Success is measured not by the number of projects personally managed, but by the role’s ability to improve Workfront adoption, data quality, self-service capability, portfolio visibility, financial insight, and consistent execution across the organization.
Our Team
Koch Communications and Marketing (KCM) creates value through effective communication and global marketing for Koch and its companies. Largely based in Wichita, Kansas, we also have teammates and businesses located in Atlanta, Georgia, and across the globe. Our collaborative team includes strategic communication and digital marketing professionals, designers, copywriters, video professionals, web developers, project managers and more. Here, you are encouraged to use and grow your skills in ways that are personally fulfilling and mutually beneficial for you, our customers, communities, businesses and partners.
What You Will Do
Adobe Workfront Ownership & Optimization
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
The Creative Operations Manager enables the successful execution of creative work at scale by serving as a leader and subject-matter expert for Adobe Workfront, strengthening workflow governance, expanding operational visibility, and building project-management capability across the broader team.
Working within a hub-and-spoke operating model, this role creates the systems, templates, reporting, training, and standards that allow Marketing Managers, Associate Creative Directors, and creative teams to take greater ownership of their projects. The role provides selective project management leadership for larger campaigns, strategic opportunities, and complex cross-functional initiatives where dedicated coordination adds the greatest value.
Success is measured not by the number of projects personally managed, but by the role’s ability to improve Workfront adoption, data quality, self-service capability, portfolio visibility, financial insight, and consistent execution across the organization.
Our Team
Koch Communications and Marketing (KCM) creates value through effective communication and global marketing for Koch and its companies. Largely based in Wichita, Kansas, we also have teammates and businesses located in Atlanta, Georgia, and across the globe. Our collaborative team includes strategic communication and digital marketing professionals, designers, copywriters, video professionals, web developers, project managers and more. Here, you are encouraged to use and grow your skills in ways that are personally fulfilling and mutually beneficial for you, our customers, communities, businesses and partners.
What You Will Do
Adobe Workfront Ownership & Optimization
- Serve as the subject matter expert for Adobe Workfront within the creative organization.
- Configure, maintain, and continuously improve Workfront project templates, task structures, request queues, custom forms, dashboards, reports, views, filters, and notifications.
- Maintain and manipulate project templates to reflect evolving services, roles, workflows, milestones, dependencies, routing, and governance requirements.
- Partner with system administrators and technology partners on platform configuration, integrations, enhancements, permissions, troubleshooting, and release readiness.
- Establish and maintain standards for project setup, status usage, assignments, planned hours, time entry, metadata, and project closure to protect reporting integrity.
- Identify opportunities to simplify user experience and reduce administrative effort through reusable templates, automation, calculated fields, and scalable configurations.
- Partner with Director of Creative Operations & Video to design and deliver role-based Workfront onboarding, cross-training, office hours, and refresher training for Marketing Managers, creative leaders, and production teams.
- Enable partner teams to take greater ownership of project setup, planning, status management, timeline stewardship, documentation, and closure within defined guardrails.
- Develop practical job aids, process guides, standard operating procedures, quick-reference materials, and reusable learning resources.
- Coach users through real project scenarios, so knowledge is transferred into day-to-day practice rather than retained within a centralized project management function.
- Monitor adoption and common support needs, then use those insights to improve training, workflows, templates, and governance.
- Build a sustainable self-service model while remaining available for consultation, escalation, and targeted hands-on support.
- Build, maintain, and refine Workfront reports, dashboards, scorecards, filters, groupings, prompts, and calculated fields that provide reliable operational and financial visibility.
- Create reporting that improves visibility into recovery, utilization, capacity, demand, throughput, work in progress, project health, on-time delivery, and time-entry compliance.
- Five or more years of experience in creative operations, marketing operations, project or program management, workflow management, PMO, or related fields.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience configuring and supporting Adobe Workfront in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
- Experience building and manipulating Workfront reports, dashboards, filters, groupings, prompts, custom forms, templates, and calculated fields.
- Experience training users, facilitating adoption, and enabling others to assume greater ownership of processes and projects.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to validate data, identify patterns, diagnose issues, and translate findings into actionable insights.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, influence without direct authority, and communicate clearly with both practitioners and leaders.
- Strong facilitation, documentation, problem-solving, and change management skills.
- Experience supporting an in-house agency, creative studio, marketing organization, or integrated communications environment.
- Advanced knowledge of Workfront resource management, workload balancing, Fusion or other automation capabilities, and platform governance.
- Experience with utilization, recovery, billing, time tracking, capacity planning, or cost-recovery models.
- Experience creating executive-level operational reporting and value narratives.
- Working knowledge of creative production workflows across design, content, digital, video, photography, illustration, animation, and campaigns.
- Experience supporting an operating model transformation or moving teams toward shared ownership and self-service.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).