Lead Advertising and Creative Services Manager

USA (Remote)

$50/hr – $62/hrSenior Level3+ years expTemporary

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-functional agency partnerships and end-to-end campaign delivery, ensuring briefs translate into on-brand creative that hits objectives, budgets, and timelines.

  • Partner management: align internal stakeholders and external agencies to ensure briefs, timelines, and KPIs stay on track.
  • Campaign lifecycle: oversee kickoff, creative reviews, approvals, delivery, and post-campaign learnings across current customer initiatives.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary POC for internal stakeholders and external agency partners for specified projects, fostering strong cross-functional relationships across various stakeholders to align creative strategy with business objectives and KPIs while setting realistic expectations, ensuring clear communication and accountability
  • Manage end-to-end current customer creative campaigns, including:
  • Analyze briefs and determine creative tactic requirements to kickoff agency
  • Ensure agency adherence to briefs and expectations
  • Create, manage, and approve project schedules, ensuring necessary timing requirements
  • Review/approve creative designs and messaging
  • Articulate well-reasoned creative options during reviews
  • Lead creative presentations to senior leadership with a key understanding of campaign objectives
  • Consolidate and communicate feedback to agencies
  • Ensure quality control throughout the project lifecycle, serving as the final QC point person
  • Oversee final delivery within budget and specifications
  • Maintain project documentation:
  • Archive campaigns and track historical data
  • Monitor rights expirations and renewals
  • Document and communicate post-campaign learnings
  • Manage individual project budgets established by SOWs while proactively resolving campaign issues and identifying and implementing process improvements and best practices to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in advertising, creative services, or marketing project management
  • Proven experience managing external creative agencies from concept through final delivery
  • Experience presenting creative work and campaign strategies to senior leadership
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced and evolving environment
  • Background in customer retention marketing with a focus on loyalty, churn reduction, and revenue-driving campaigns
  • Proficient in MS Office Suite with working knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel
  • Working knowledge of Smartsheet for project tracking and management
  • Familiarity with Figma for creative review and design collaboration
  • Familiarity with Acquia and SharePoint for creative asset management

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Advertising, Communications, or related field preferred

Group O

3.8 Glassdoor

Group O is an end-to-end business process outsourcing provider specializing in innovative, technologically driven incentive marketing, supply chain, device management & testing, and packaging solutions. The Marketing Division specializes in loyalty and reward program management utilizing O-vationsTM Loyalty and Reward platform, Omni-channel customer care and sales centers, as well as program analytics and supportive creative services. The Supply Chain division is committed to giving clients a competitive edge through comprehensive solutions. Services include kitting and sub-assembly, forward and reverse logistics, device management, spend management and order and inventory management solutions.The Packaging Division is dedicated to keeping client packaging operations running efficiently by procuring and distributing packaging materials, maintaining equipment, and optimizing packaging materials utilizing Smart AuditTM Analysis.Headquartered in Milan, IL, Group O is one of the largest Hispanic-owned companies in the United States with more than 1,200 employees. To learn more, visit www.GroupO.com.

Founded in 1974
Milan, Illinois, USA
623 employees (31 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
100.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$83
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.3%
Direct
52.7%
Referral
14.6%
Social
2.8%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~623

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
24 (4% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Non Equity Assistance, 4 years ago