Walmart is hiring: Manager, Creative (Creative Project Manager) - Walmart Creati

Manager, Creative (Creative Project Manager) - Walmart Creative Studio at Walmart

Base pay range

$96,000.00/yr - $186,000.00/yr

Position Summary

What you'll do is: Creative Project Management is the internal creative group engine, linking all functions, and managing the end-to-end workflows for full-funnel creative campaigns (inclusive of platform and concept development) with excellence. Creative Project Managers work closely with Creative Account Management, Creatives, and Integrated Production to ensure that projects are moving seamlessly through the system and that challenges are addressed quickly.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Creative Account Management on project intake ensuring that resources are appropriately assigned, and jobs are opened in Workfront.
• Develop detailed project schedules, working with account, creative and production team members on input and alignment.
• Keep project team updated on key milestones, timeline shifts, and changes in deliverables.
• Drive projects from beginning to end and be the “go-to” person on project status.
• Provide detailed support for the creative team and be a “righthand” to the creative lead through the creative development process.
• Ensure project milestones and documents are updated in Workfront as projects progress through the agency.
• Lead internal status meetings and share status documents to ensure clarity of weekly milestones, meetings, and deliverables.
• Call out scheduling, resourcing or other potential challenges well in advance and offer solutions.
• Follow up with creative and production teams to ensure they have the assets needed to get the job done. Ensure that the teams are working toward key milestones.
• Liaise with other Creative Account Management & Operations leads to ensure work is being routed to appropriate partners while in development (legal, trademark, Corp Comms, etc.).
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional partners and escalate to creative leadership when needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2-3 years as a Creative Project Manager with an advertising agency or in-house creative group.
• Experience leading a high volume of projects ranging from branding and conceptual development to tactical execution.
• Experience with Workfront or similar PM software preferred.

A Successful Candidate Will Have

• High accountability – a successful Creative Project Manager will “own” their projects from intake to completion.
• Presence & Urgency – brings a sense of presence to the meetings they attend and the emails they write while also showing urgency with the consistency and speed with which they respond to others.
• Servant leader – able to lead project teams and hold team members accountable while understanding they aren’t decision makers on the creative work.
• Solutions-oriented – creative problem solver that overcomes hurdles with a sense of calm.
• Relationship manager – skilled at establishing and maintaining relationships with partners and peers at all levels.
• Master negotiator – understands the levers to pull when developing and managing timelines, deliverables, and feedback.
• Ownership – the right candidate will be the foundation and driving force for the campaign and project team.
• Can run blind – with significant variability across initiatives, this person must be able to move the ball forward through discovery, trial and error, little background info, and minimal everyday handholding.

Benefits and compensation

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see One.Walmart. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for associates. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change. See One.Walmart for details.

The annual salary range for this position is $96,000.00-$186,000.00. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include stock.

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications. Bachelor’s degree in Design, Marketing, Creative Writing, Advertising, Fine Arts, or related field and 1 year of experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field OR 3 years of experience in interactive design, editorial content management, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Content Management Systems, Managing interactive projects in an online creative or related digital field, Working for or with creative agencies, Working with Design Software (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite), including proficiency in advanced functions (e.g., multi-layer masking and compositing).

Primary Location

5404 Jandy Plc, Los Angeles, CA 90066-7006, United States of America

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries

• Retail

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