Design Project Manager, Packaging
Job Summary
Marcom is a Global Marketing Communications group. We lead all of the advertising and marketing eftorts to ensure the considered development and execution or world-class communications.
Design Project Managers in Packaging sit at the intersection of design and production. We steward projects from kick-off to go-live, driving the team to meet critical milestones to ensure on-time completion. The PM manages multiple, multi-faceted packaging projects simultaneously, and is responsible for ensuring successful transitions from creative to production, tracking project status and timing, identifying bottlenecks, scheduling key reviews, and enabling smooth workflow.
Key Qualifications
- Your time management and organization skills are excellent.
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
- You live in the details.
- You are a quick learner and always striving to learn more. Your curiosity leads you to understand "the how and the why'
- You are familiar with packaging engineering, design and/or production.
- You function well as part of a team. You are comfortable speaking up in groups. You can assume a leadership position as needed. You work collaboratively with all types of personalities.
- You have exemplary written and oral communication skills.
- You are a self-started. You independently manage your workload, meet deadlines, and track your own action items.
- You are an inventive and enthusiastic problem-solver, at ease working in a dynamic, fast-paced, complex organization.
Description
- 40 hour/week contractor position.
- On-site Hybrid 3 days/week.
- Develop and maintain packaging timelines.
- Drive the team and all stakeholders to meet critical milestones.
- Support multiple projects with varying deadlines and deliverables, provide forward-thinking insight to work flow and resource impacts as timelines shift.
- Lead weekly project status meetings; create agendas & recaps, including next steps and action items.
- Track planned vs. actual key milestones, project scope & staffing.
- Consistently reevaluate workflow and processes for efficiencies.
