Simple Concepts Consulting is a dynamic marketing agency focused on video production, creative and presentation design and events management, located in Kirkland, Washington. We are seeking an outgoing, self-driven and proactive Associate Creative Project Manager with proven experience in project management, customer communications, design collaboration, quality control and supervising client deliverables.
This position requires client interaction, scoping skills, creative project management and budget tracking with the ability to work with internal accounting and operations. Must have excellent organizational skills, an eye for detail, and ability to work in fast-paced environments. This is a full-time hybrid position.
401k plan and medical benefits
Skills and Experience:
Strong written and verbal communication skills with external clients and internal teams
Experience working in an agency setting or fast-paced, deadline-driven, high-traffic marketing department
Proven record managing multiple projects with successful dynamic priority-setting talents, to meet ever-changing and aggressive client deadlines.
Ability to scope a project for new or existing clients and successfully track project hours to meet budget parameters.
Understand client brand guidelines and ensure compliance in deliverables and subject matter.
Understand the creative process, able to listen to a client's needs, then translate into organized design instructions.
Tight quality control checks on design deliverables, attention to detail and consistency.
Ability to craft and pivot on workback schedules, helping both clients and internal teammates stick to deadlines where possible through heavier tracking and follow-ups.
Account management duties: soft skills needed to engage with clients to plan work, increase opportunities, and successfully build a forecast pipeline. Includes opening Opportunities and drafting SOW's, Invoice Spreadsheets/Project Deliverable Budget Tracker.
Maintaining and distributing the daily projects, and execute roles, and responsibilities ? communication, based on daily team sync notes, while monitoring project inbound and outbound traffic.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in related field
3+ years' experience of working in a Creative or client driven environment on maintaining accounts
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Dynamics 365)
Knowledge and understanding of Microsoft brand and practices
Understands accessibility compliance in Office and Adobe Creative Suite files
Experience managing multiple projects with successful dynamic priority-setting talents, to meet ever-changing and aggressive client deadlines