Creative Project Manager (Design)

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Expedia Group’s Global Marketing Communications team is dedicated to developing and executing innovative and effective global marketing across our family of brands. Within this organization, the Creative Project Management team is responsible for the flawless running and organization of our Brand Pods and the projects within them, annual and quarterly project forecasting, resourcing, and prioritization. As a Creative Project Manager on the Design team, you will be responsible for driving the day-to-day aspect of our design projects, driving creative workflow and maintaining operational excellence.
 

We are seeking an enthusiastic person who can contribute a team environment and wants to be part of an evolving organization. This position requires a self-motivated, flexible individual with strong communication, organization and leadership skills. There will be a lot of hands-on work required in the initial months as the team gets up and running.
 

What you’ll do

• Contribute to annual and quarterly forecasting for upcoming brand priorities.
• Maintain oversight of project status and feed into a weekly leadership status report.
• Manage project intake of design related requests, assess resourcing and prioritization needs.
• Independently steward day-to-day project management of multiple design projects, serving as a daily point of contact with cross-functional partners.
• Schedule creative reviews and other important team meetings, ensuring the right attendees are present, meetings start and finish on time and recapping and distributing detailed notes.
• Drive project timelines and ensure all key milestones and due dates are communicated frequently to the larger team.
• Anticipate and mange potential blockers across concept development, production, and delivery phases; flag to appropriate partners and proactively find solutions.
• Partner with creative directors to drive creative approvals.
• Work with media and other internal teams to consolidate asset requests and file delivery specs.
• Champion creative workflow processes and tools to ensure consistency.
• Work across UK and US timezones. The hours are skewed to early US mornings/later
• UK evenings to allow for maximum hours spent with the UK and US offices.

Who you are:

• A project management professional with 5+ years experience in creative project management within an agency or brand side creative organization.
• Well versed managing design creative projects across all production all channels.
• A solid understanding of the brand design process.
• Familiar with managing a large cross-functional team of stakeholders and driving alignment across all aspects of a creative project.
• An effective and concise communicator.
• Resilient and constructive when faced with change; able to shift approaches when needed in response to unexpected events and circumstances.
• Someone who thrives in maintaining organization, finding efficiencies and building, improving and simplifying processes.
• Experienced in working with project management software/tools.

About Expedia Group 

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.  

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