Project Manager, Creative Services

Job Title

Project Manager Creative Services

Job Description

About The Position Major goals and objectives and location requirements

Hybrid 3x a week- (Des Moines IA)

In-office Expectations : This position is hybrid in-office with the ability to work remotely for up to 2 days per week.

About The Team The Team and / or Brand.

The Brand Partnerships & Licensing department supports licensing functions across People Inc.s brands. Our work includes product licensing asset licensing international media and branded services and experiences.

About The Positions Contributions :

The Creative Services team in the People Inc. Brand Partnerships & Licensing group is responsible for the execution of product and lifestyle photography for the Better Homes & Gardens Collection sold exclusively at Walmart. To help with this work we are looking for an experienced project manager who can lead complex cross-functional creative projects and integrate multiple workstreams by using systems and tools to achieve business goals. This role reporting to the Executive Creative Director is tasked with understanding all photography project scopes and expected seasonal marketing deliverables helping to manage the coordination of weekly photography production in our Des Moines studio. Project manager will own the Creative Services project tracker and is responsible for communicating status of product and marketing photography and photography deliverables to respective stakeholders.

Packaging & Ecomm Photography Project Management (60%)

Support the end-to-end execution of product photography inclusive of both pre-production and post-production

Represent People Inc. at asset walks with the Product Development and Packaging Design teams. Subsequently scope and build out timelines for photography to ensure art-to-print and upload deadlines are met

Own weekly status call with broader creative team (Art Director Stylists Prop Assistants Photography Coordinator) to centralize planning and status updates

Communicate the status of samples photography plans and image uploads to external partners on a recurring basis in coordination with Photography Coordinator

Marketing Photography Project Management (20%)

Support the go-to-market campaign photography process by establishing timelines and getting cross functional alignment between Creative & Photo Studio on deliverable dates

Develop an understanding of product milestone deadlines marketing campaign deadlines and applicable assets needed

Team Management & Oversight (20%)

Manage a team of studio associates focused on photography production overseeing day-to-day operations (schedules sample intake asset management etc.)

Act a point of contact for external partners; Product Development teams Suppliers Production Vendors Walmart etc.

The Roles Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements :

Education :

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience

Experience :

Minimum 3 years of experience in relevant field (project management creative services production)

Specific Knowledge Skills Certifications and Abilities :

Excellent leadership and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Must excel at collaborative cross functional work internally and with external stakeholders

Ability to work independently and on a team taking direction from multiple project leaders

Computer skills using Google Suite (Sheets Docs Slides) Miro Airtable a plus

% Travel Required ( Approximate ) :

10%

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and / or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing .

The Company participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program please click here : Experience :

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1