Marketing Project Manager

Title: Marketing Project Manager
Location: St. Louis, MO
Company: Fortune 100 Food & Beverage Manufacturing _(FuseGlobal has worked with this company for 20 years)
_Initial term: 12 months  (position expected to run longer)
Schedule: Mon-Thur on-site; Friday WFH

*** Must be comfortable working in a pet-friendly environment ***

About This Role: 

Your larger team is our internal creative resource team.  We’re specialists at our core, which means we know how to think about, write about, design for, and communicate to the extended pet care community. We bring it all together seamlessly through pet-focused, consumer-centric programs, products, and communications.

As a Marketing Project Manager, you will lead and manage full-cycle projects (from inception to completion) across multidisciplinary teams and across all media types (digital to traditional) to ensure on-time, on-budget and error-free execution.

What You'll Do:

• Act as cross-functional hub for project executions while partnering closely with internal & external partners to ensure overall project success.
• Develop, own, and communicate holistic project schedules and work plan to internal & external teams.
• Maintain detailed status reports in Workfront and leads status meetings for Marketing and agency.
• Acts as a project driver for the team, takes ownership of project efficiency.
• Utilize Agile (Kanban+/Scrum) and Waterfall processes and applies relevant approach by project type.
• Experience in omni-channel/all media types of production including digital, eComm, print, video, and packaging.
• Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement.
• Open jobs utilizing agency software tools (i.e. Workfront).
• Work with account leads to accurately scope project jobs.
• Management of all production related requests from the internal team, clients, or meta- agency partners - holistic timeline creation and management.
• Gather and vet specs across all media types (digital, ecommerce, broadcast, print, promotions + packaging) to ensure project accuracy.
• Manages all Type C & D packaging updates, creates spec sheets, works directly with Production Artist.
• Traffics print and digital media.
• Facilitates website content updates.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• 3+ years of professional experience, including at least 1 year of project management experience in an in-house creative agency, marketing agency, or similar client-service environment.