Creative Project Manager IV

Are you ready to lead high-visibility, large-scale creative initiatives for a premier global professional services organization? Partnering with Aquent opens the door to this incredible opportunity, providing you with a dedicated career advocate committed to your professional growth while you drive the execution of high-impact creative campaigns. In this dynamic role, you will be the driving force behind complex, multi-channel campaigns, translating strategic business goals into stunning creative realities and making a tangible impact on world-class brand experiences.

The Opportunity

As a senior-level creative project management expert, you will lead the end-to-end planning and execution of complex creative initiatives and large-scale virtual and physical event projects. You will collaborate across marketing, creative, and operations teams to establish milestones, anticipate risks, and maintain seamless visibility across multiple interconnected workstreams. This role is perfect for a strategic thinker who balances creative ambition with operational excellence, ensuring every deliverable aligns with business needs while preserving creative integrity.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project management for a portfolio of highly complex creative initiatives and large-scale accounts.
• Strategically manage multiple projects and asset deliverables simultaneously, maintaining an integrated view of priorities, schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, and budgets.
• Translate business and client needs into clear scopes, project plans, estimates, milestones, schedules, and deliverables.
• Lead project meetings and facilitate alignment across creative teams, internal clients, senior stakeholders, and business partners.
• Serve as a central point of coordination, providing clear visibility into project status, priorities, risks, decisions, and next steps.
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, resource constraints, and competing priorities, escalating and resolving issues to keep work on track.
• Partner with creative, account, and operational leads to balance business priorities, creative ambition, capacity, timing, and budget.
• Coordinate resources, manage workflows, assign and track deliverables, and ensure teams understand objectives, priorities, responsibilities, and deadlines.
• Manage stakeholder reviews, feedback, approvals, and changes while protecting project scope, timing, and creative integrity.
• Establish and improve project management processes, workflows, reporting, and tools to increase efficiency, transparency, and predictability across the portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent training and professional work experience.
• Seven years of project management experience in the creative industry, with a strong understanding of the event landscape.
• Five years of experience project managing events in a virtual environment.
• Strong background working directly with creative teams and a deep understanding of creative development processes.
• In-depth knowledge and breadth of experience with project management practices, methodologies, and tools.
• Executive presence with the proven ability to present complex solutions and articulate plans to C-suite audiences and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and persuasion abilities.
• Proficiency in Mac/PC environments, project management software, Microsoft Office, Teams, Outlook, and Adobe Workfront or other industry-standard tracking tools.
• Ability to travel up to 5-10% as required by project needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional project management certification (e.g., PMP or equivalent).