Creative Marketing Project Manager

Arlington, VA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the production workflow for Lidl’s marketing assets, aligning cross‑functional teams, ensuring timely deliveries, and maintaining clear project documentation and asset intake processes.

  • Coordinate asset delivery and hand-offs across channel managers and campaign teams.
  • Oversee multi-step projects from conception to completion, tracking timelines and SOPs.
  • Maintain intake and approvals for third-party images and website uploads, ensuring accurate, on-time assets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Maintain the creative requests tracker, ensuring all requested assets are delivered to channel managers on time.
  • Manage day-to-day projects, systems, and procedures to ensure an efficient workflow across all creative initiatives.
  • Support creative projects from conception to completion, tracking timelines and overseeing multi-step deliverables.
  • Collaborate directly with Marketing channel and campaign teams to ensure timely asset hand-offs and accurate campaign deployment.
  • Manage project documentation and update guidelines, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and instructional materials.
  • Manage the invoicing process, ensuring all invoices are received and processed accurately and in a timely manner.
  • Manage the intake of third-party image files, compile an overview tracker, and facilitate the cross-departmental approval process required for accurate website uploads.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with the wider business and other departments like promotions team, supply chain, nonfood, and operations.
  • Support with rolling out new tools provided by Lidl International to maximize efficiency amongst all marketing stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Proficient with Google Suite.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot production issues and find efficient solutions.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple weekly priorities alongside ad-hoc tasks.
  • Perform rigorous quality checks, utilizing 'four-eye priciplw' reviews on artwork and proofreading copy to ensure flawless final delivery.
  • Foundational project management skills, including the ability to track timelines and follow through on multi-step deliverables.
  • Solid understanding of marketing principles and the ability to present creative direction or ideas clearly to the creative team.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interacting with internal stakeholders and discussing creative direction.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, economics or communication.
  • 2-3 years of experience in a related field.

Preferred

  • Experience using Adobe Workfront is highly preferred.
  • Strong writing and copywriting skills.
  • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator)

Benefits

  • Medical & Prescription | Dental | Vision coverage
  • Paid Holiday & Paid Time Off (PTO) to use for sickness or vacation
  • Dedicated training plans to ensure you are set up for success
  • 401k Plan (+ 5% company match)
  • Voluntary Term Life & AD&D Insurance
  • Total Well-Being Program
  • DailyPay, a voluntary benefit to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule
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Lidl US

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Lidl is a family-owned business grounded on a simple philosophy: that customers deserve the highest quality goods and groceries at prices everyone can afford. For more than forty years, Lidl’s unique approach has changed and improved communities across 32 countries, where Lidl has grown to operate around 11,550 stores and employ more than 341,000 people.In 2017, we brought our unique approach to the U.S. and opened our first stores in Virginia and the Carolinas. In less than three years, Lidl has won more than 500 awards for our unique products and shopping experience and has been recognized as a Top 3 U.S. supermarket by Food & Wine Magazine. Our U.S. footprint has grown over that same period to more than 150 stores across 9 East Coast states, with more than 5,000 U.S. team members supporting our growth. We are just getting started. Lidl US offers employees the opportunity to be a part of something big. Whether you want to join a team and be the best at what you do, or grow your career into a leadership position, Lidl US will support your efforts and create opportunities for you to develop your career – wherever it takes you. Are you up for it? Be a part of something fresh, new and exciting! Check out all of our open job opportunities on careers.lidl.com.

Founded in 1973
Arlington, Virginia, USA
3K employees (79 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.2M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$25.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
20.2%
Direct
74.8%
Referral
4.2%
Social
0.3%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
65 (2% of company)

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