Role Description This is a full-time, Project Manager role responsible for the successful digital workflow and completion of complex trading card projects from the development through manufacturing lifecycle. On a day-to-day basis, the Project Manager will plan and track project schedules, coordinate tasks, manage resources, and monitor progress to ensure on-time delivery of products and initiatives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate: Help team members and asset providers focus on their internal processes and deliverables by effectively managing the information and assets required to produce them.
- Track: Regularly monitor multiple detailed trading card collection schedules and track deliverables and milestones to assess project health and determine potential correction requirements.
- Communicate: Proactively determine critical project details and communicate them effectively to responsible team members, asset providers, management and other stakeholders.
- Balance: Weigh and prioritize the requirements of multiple project schedules to maximize the potential for successful completion of all projects.
- Identify Risks: Determine, communicate and help develop management plans for potential problems with schedules, resources and assets.
- Resolve Issues: Quickly identify, escalate and resolve schedule variances and issues that arise during projects.
- Report: Analyze project schedules and be prepared to report on project health and status and provide metrics when required.
- Quality Control: Review deliverables to verify quality and completeness. Solicit and obtain feedback and approvals from licensors and internal departments.
- Influence: By your professionalism, character and communication skill, demonstrate and promote the value of a quality and project management-oriented culture.
- Improve: Continually look for ways to improve processes, procedures and methods.
- Other Duties as Assigned
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in digital workflows.
- Energetic, resourceful, positive and professional.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent organization skills and attention to detail.
- The ability to build rapport and elicit timely solutions from individuals who are not direct reports.
- Proficiency in the use of Adobe Workfront - Proof.
- Offset print production, digital graphics, and prepress knowledge and experience a plus.
Education &/or Experience:
- College degree in related field desired.
- Minimum two (2) years of project management experience.
- Print production experience highly desired.