Locations: Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Portland, St. Louis
Type: W2 Contract
Duration: 6 months (with potential to extend)
Start: January 11, 2027
Compensation Range: $44-46/HR
As a Creative Project Manager, you'll lead the planning and project management of complex creative initiatives for select accounts, large-scale projects, and campaigns for our client. You'll manage work from intake and scoping through creative development, production, and final delivery, ensuring timelines, budgets, resources, dependencies, and deliverables remain aligned while preserving creative intent.
Note: Candidates must be in one of these locations to be onsite for their first day.
Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end project management for a large account or portfolio of moderate to highly complex creative initiatives.
- Strategically manage multiple projects and asset deliverables simultaneously, maintaining an integrated view of priorities, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, budgets, and overall portfolio health.
- Translate business and client needs into clear scopes, project plans, estimates, milestones, schedules, and deliverables.
- Lead project meetings and facilitate alignment across creative teams, internal clients, senior stakeholders, and business partners.
- Serve as a central point of coordination, providing clear visibility into project status, priorities, risks, decisions, and next steps.
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and competing priorities, escalating and resolving issues to keep work on track.
- Partner with creative, account, and operational leads to balance business priorities, creative ambition, capacity, timing, and budget.
- Coordinate resources, manage workflows, assign and track deliverables, and ensure teams understand objectives, priorities, responsibilities, and deadlines.
- Manage stakeholder reviews, feedback, approvals, and changes while protecting project scope, timing, and creative integrity.
- Establish and improve project management processes, workflows, reporting, and tools to increase efficiency, transparency, and predictability across the portfolio.
- Use project data, reporting, and lessons learned to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
- To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bachelor's degree in related discipline or equivalent training and work experience.
- Seven years of project management experience in the industry with some understanding of the event landscape.
- Five years of experience project managing events in a virtual environment.
- Project management certification is preferred.
- Strong background working with creatives and their processes.
- In-depth knowledge and breadth of experience of project management practices and tools.
- Executive presence with ability to present complex solutions to C-suite audiences.
- Ability to present and articulate plans and progress against goals to leaders, stakeholders and team members.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, with active listening and diplomacy when working with team members and business partners.
- Strong influential approach with the ability to effectively motivate teams and remain agile in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong consultation, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and persuasion abilities.
- Demonstrated business acumen and strategic thinking skills.
- Proficiency in Mac/PC environments, project management software, Microsoft Office, Teams, Outlook, Adobe Workfront or other software tracking tool.
- Ability to learn new tools on-the-job as technology advances and strive to embrace AI and innovation.
- Ability to build and leverage relationships and exercise influence with multiple internal groups across all levels of the organization.
- Ability to understand project measurements, KPI's; drive effective process analysis, report quality results, and work with operations to drive improvements.
- Skilled at conducting research and identifying problems and solutions.
- Ability to gain an understanding of the firm's business, organizational structure, and operations to effectively identify opportunities to support the firm's strategy and key initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a high-performing culture.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills with keen attention to detail and adherence to deadlines.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a time-sensitive environment.
- Ability to flex schedule to meet the needs of the business.
- Required to work in a hybrid work arrangement - remotely and/or at local office on Day 1.
- Ability to travel if needed for a project - estimated to be 5-10%.
Job ID: JN -112026-167938
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At Cella, a randstad digital company, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
