Creative Project Manager (Remote Contract)

This job is a part of the Account Management team at Tonic, Highmark Health's in-house creative marketing agency. This a fully remote contract role that will work full-time hours paid on an hourly basis. The role will support the account team that brings a creative idea to life that strategically resonates with our audiences while delivering on business needs. The creative project manager will support the Tonic creative project management team and business groups in assigning resources, manage creative business needs, develop functional creative timelines, and drive processes and communications from start to finish. This role will support collaboration within the team to ensure all internal and external stakeholders understand the creative production Tonic develops. The role will work closely with the creative project management team, activation management team, and development teams (internally and externally) to ensure work is timely, on production, within budget, escalating issues and potential solutions within the teams. The creative project manager will support the overall creative project management team along with their strategic marketing partners and leadership.

- Responsible for oversight and guidance for the portfolio of programs and projects in assigned POD that are designed to improve marketing effectiveness and our brand through assigning, routing projects, and managing creative business workflow.

- Serving as Tonic's point of contact for partnership stakeholders at all levels of enterprise at the onset of project deliverables and process.

- Coordinate with project management team and internal partners on scope, business needs, creative processes to drive creative production from start to finish.

- Proactively manage risks and issues as they arise.

- Collaborate with creative project management team on scope definition and intake of new projects.

-Workfront knowledge is a bonus.

Education Requirements:

Required: Associates - Advertising, Marketing, Communications, or other business related field

Substitutions: 1 1/2 year of related and progressive experience in advertising, marketing, or creative management

Minimum Experience Requirements:

Project Management: 3 years

Agency Experience: 1 year

Coordinating with vendors and stakeholders: 1 year

Skills:

-Team collaboration skills in an open and transparent environment, navigating dynamics to address issues and lead solutions.

-Strong analytical skills; collecting, synthesizing, and summarizing creative approach and process.

-Experience in the creative industry with cross functional knowledge (creative operations, project management tools, traditional, digital, production, multimedia, creative development)

-Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.

-Microsoft Office suite (Work, Excel, PPT), Adobe.

-Assess project risk, analyze, and assess approach to lead creative.

-Strong detail and note taking formatting.