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Ross-Simons · 1 day ago

Trafficking Manager

Cranston, RI

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Ross-Simons, America’s Favorite Jeweler, is seeking a Certified Project Manager to establish a formal PMO and serve as a Trafficking Manager in the marketing department. The role involves managing the workflow of marketing and creative projects, establishing PM best practices, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure timely and effective project execution.

Fashion

Hiring Manager

Jeff Thomas

Responsibilities

Manage the daily workflow and traffic of all marketing and creative development including emails, website updates, digital advertising and social media

Review creative briefs and assign projects to appropriate teams and colleagues through Asana

Create and manage project plans to identify and track the flow of tasks between multiple business partners; includes driving each project through to completion with consistent and accurate status reporting, issue-identification and resolution facilitation

Coordinate creative meetings, reviews, and approvals for creative

Gather business feedback and coordinate with appropriate teams to determine next steps

Troubleshoot bottlenecks, miscommunication, changes, and inefficiencies as they arise

Research outstanding questions, get content decisions, and gather missing information from creative, marketing, and merchandising groups to ensure accurate scope, requirements, and deadlines prior to creative team's engagement

Establish the first of its kind PMO for LBH, serving the business as a whole

Build, evangelize, train and evolve the practices, rules, norms, tools, behaviors and expectations for program management across all disciplines, making every team member who manages a process more efficient and effective regardless of to whom they report

Oversee the project workflow system to ensure all deadlines are met internally and externally for all channels and anticipate challenges that may arise

Monitor intermediate and long-term deadlines and milestones to ensure timely execution that delivers world-class content on time and on budget

Collaborate with other business partners on how to evolve and improve processes for all creative initiatives that increase efficiencies

Explore ongoing best practices in the use of Asana including how to track projects using data reporting

Build rapport with stakeholders and Business Partners to impact outcomes beneficial to the business

Anticipate requests from Marketing and Merchandizing to understand and fulfill information needs

Be able to negotiate compromises, have challenging conversations, and manage up/across/down within and across teams in a positive and collaborative spirit

Responsible for asking the right questions tailored to the target audiences; working with creative leads to identify/clarify goals/objective of creative deliverable, and approvers who will be involved in reviews

Establish, track and maintain budgets for Creative. Manage, process and archive all creative invoices

Qualification

PMP certificationSAFE Agile methodologyProject managementAsanaAdobe Creative SuiteLeadershipCommunication skillsProblem-solvingTime managementSelf-motivator