Associate Creative Project Manager

Modesto, CA (Hybrid)

$85K/yr – $128K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 23 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive cross-functional creative projects for a large wine and spirits portfolio, from kickoff to delivery, balancing timelines, budgets, and stakeholder alignment.

  • Collaborate with Brand Marketing and clients to scope and plan projects.
  • Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery across packaging, activations, and digital.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Join Gallo Creative and help bring some of the world's most recognized wine and spirits brands to life across a portfolio of 50+ labels. As an Associate Project Manager, you'll support the execution of creative projects spanning packaging renovations, brand development, activations, POS, and digital. You'll work closely with Brand Marketing, Commerce Marketing, and Corporate clients to scope projects, build timelines, coordinate resources, and manage budgets, keeping work moving from kickoff through final delivery.
  • Day to day that looks like partnering with clients to understand what they need, helping define project plans, flagging risks before they become problems, and keeping cross-functional creative teams aligned and on schedule.
  • You'll sit at the intersection of creative, production, and strategy, which means you'll get a front-row seat to how brands actually get built: from the brief to the shelf.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 4 years of marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of Gallo brand marketing, corporate communications, sales account management, creative design, hospitality, or media/digital marketing reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR high school diploma or state-issued equivalency certificate plus 8 years of marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
  • Ability to interface with clients to scope business needs and formulate project plans that meet those needs.
  • Proficiency with the tenets of project management—establishing timelines and budgets, scheduling resources, trafficking deliverables, and facilitating workflows.
  • Ability to work independently to manage straightforward to mid-complexity projects start to finish, ensuring work is delivered on time and on budget.
  • Excellent time-management skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects.
  • Ability to work autonomously and as part of a fast-paced, multi-functional team.
  • Customer oriented with strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, problem-resolution skills, and relationship building.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 productivity apps including Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
  • Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years of marketing communications, advertising, marketing/creative agency, digital, account management, or lean six sigma experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR Bachelor’s degree plus 5 years of Gallo brand marketing, corporate communications, sales account management, creative design, hospitality, or media/digital marketing reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
  • 2 years of experience in project management across print and digital.
  • PMP certification from a recognized professional project management training organization.
  • External agency experience—specifically, managing and/or trafficking projects on behalf of assorted clients.
  • Experience using an automated workflow system to monitor and manage projects.
  • Knowledge and understanding of POS, Marketing and Sales functions.

Benefits

  • medical and dental coverage
  • 401k plans
  • profit sharing
  • pet insurance
  • company holidays
  • access to an employee wine shop
  • and more!
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GALLO

We're proud to be home to the top wine and spirits brands in the U.S., including High Noon and Barefoot Wine. We serve as the official wine and vodka sponsors for the NFL, NHL, UFC, and PGA of America. Our commitment to our people, products, and customers is unwavering and evident in everything we do.Gallo Careers | Our Brands. Your Future.

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