Contract Project Management Consultant – Creative Brand Design, Packaging
Frida
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Miami • Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Lead day-to-day communications with the cross-functional teams and the approved agency team, owning consistent status updates, alignment/feedback meetings, and clearly communicating timelines, deliverables,s and approval cadence.
- Build and maintain partnerships with creative, supply chain, operations, marketing, sales, and packaging teams to align on and execute project initiatives aligned with the provided business goals and brand direction.
- Support in strategic approach and implementing aligned leadership direction, noting implications to project status and workstreams.
- Consistent management of tasks, deliverables, and deadlines using existing tools and weekly meetings to elevate risk, dependencies, and successes.
- High attention to detail, understanding of 360-degree concept development, and ability to clearly relay feedback and next steps to cross-functional teams will be key.
- Validate and implement the execution plan for the secondary packaging artwork refresh, ensuring a structured, efficient, and segmented delivery of assets.
- Version control, management of WIP vs. final assets on our team server, feedback tracking within existing routing tools, file structure, and XF asset management to ensure all assets are up to date, tracked, and easily accessible to teams ahead of final release.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to operationalize the design direction provided, ensuring consistency and elevating contradictory feedback or inputs to ensure clarity.
- Identify and mitigate risks, bottlenecks, and resistance points to ensure smooth transitions and seamless project progress.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree with 6+ years of experience in project management, creative agency, design development, or operations within the CPG industry.
- Strong communication skills, with emphasis on building meaningful cross-functional relationships with core teams to drive collaboration across multiple levels of the organization.
- Desire to take initiative with the ability to pre-emptively assess the needs of the team to ensure efficient workflows.
- Proven track record supporting large-scale design changes, company-wide projects, and/or master brand redesigns.
- Strong knowledge of project management tools (Asana, SmartSheets, Google, MS Project) to help track, manage, and clearly articulate program status, both high-level and in minute detail.
- Experience working with supply chain, operations, marketing, sales, and packaging or design teams in a CPG, agency, or fashion environment.
- Ability to manage up where possible, approaching challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced work environment.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Understanding of creative design tools (Illustrator, Figma, CAD, or similar) or packaging design, engineering, or carton/collateral development is a plus.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementdesign developmentcreative agencypackaging designversion controlfeedback trackingrisk managementanalytical skillsproblem-solvingdecision-making
Soft skills
strong communicationcross-functional collaborationinitiativesolutions-oriented mindsetattention to detailability to manage multiple projectsrelationship buildingorganizational skillsability to pre-emptively assess needsability to relay feedback