Creative Project Manager
Chicago Botanic Garden
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Glencoe • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $54,500 - $72,213 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Manage and monitor the full project lifecycle for design deliverables, from initiation through completion
- Prepare and manage bid proposals with external vendors, evaluating quotes and ensuring project specifications, costs, and timelines are met
- Coordinate production with printers, mail houses, and sign vendors, maintaining quality standards and resolving issues as needed
- Coordinate with stakeholders to establish schedules, set realistic expectations, and ensure timely feedback loops
- Align design deliverables with overall marketing and communications strategies, including landing pages, email campaigns, social media, print, and other creative assets
- Identify opportunities to develop and optimize design and production workflows for greater efficiency
- Create, track, and maintain project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation
- Serve as a central point of communication between creative staff, marketing teams, and business stakeholders
- Utilize Smartsheet and other project management tools to track and report on project progress
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, design management, or a related field.
- 3+ years in creative project management, print production management, or related role within an agency, in-house creative team, or print vendor
- Deep understanding of prepress, offset and digital printing, large-format production, color management, paper stocks, and finishing techniques
- Strong understanding of integrated marketing campaigns and the role of graphic design in execution
- Working knowledge of buyer personas and audience-driven campaign planning
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
Benefits
- 2025 Chicago Botanic Garden Benefit Guide - Year-Round Full-time
- compensation philosophy rooted in core values: Growth, Understanding, Resilience, and Trust through Transparency
- Opportunities for increased compensation through referral bonuses, shift differentials, Thank You Pay, promotions, and periodic pay increases based on the Garden's overall performance and financial budgets.
- total compensation and benefits package is people centric
- prioritize employee wellness across three pillars: physical, mental, and financial.
- offer innovative total rewards that support continuous professional growth, personal development, and provide the flexibility needed to balance personal and professional commitments
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Hard skills
project managementprint production managementprepressoffset printingdigital printinglarge-format productioncolor managementpaper stocksfinishing techniquesintegrated marketing campaigns
Soft skills
communicationcoordinationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementtime managementexpectation settingfeedback managementworkflow optimization
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in marketingBachelor’s degree in communicationsBachelor’s degree in design management