Manager, Integrated Marketing Operations

Responsibilities

• Creative Project Management for Business-As-Usual (BAU) – 50%
• Print Trafficking: Manage in-store signage requests and print materials and collaborate directly with print vendors on specs, proofs, pre-press timelines, and physical delivery schedules.
• Intake & Resourcing: Review incoming briefs and creative requests from Merchandising, E-Commerce, and Channel Leads; scope requirements, evaluate creative capacity, assign resources, and establish achievable milestones.
• Review Cycles & Approvals: Facilitate review touchpoints with Art Directors, Copywriters, Designers, Marketing and requestor stakeholders; consolidate cross-functional feedback into clear, actionable revisions through final sign-off.
• Asset Handoff: Ensure strict adherence to retail launch dates and channel specifications, managing final asset routing and trafficking to web development, marketing ops, and distribution teams without error.
• Integrated Marketing Campaign Project Management (40%)
• Workback Plans & Milestone Visibility: Build, maintain, and publish detailed campaign workback schedules for seasonal tentpoles, capsule drops, and milestone marketing initiatives (e.g., Spring/Summer, Fall/Holiday, and brand activations). Ensure high visibility across cross-functional teams so stakeholders know precisely what they must brief and by when.
• Campaign Brief Deliverables Management: Track and oversee the execution of all creative deliverables tied to campaign briefs across channel teams (Paid Media, CRM, PR, Visual Merchandising/Retail, Social, and E-Commerce) from brief kickoff through production.
• Timeline & Roadmap Tracking: Manage master production schedules for multi-asset campaign suites across digital, print collateral, in-store window graphics, direct mail, and video assets. Partner closely with shoot & post production teams for timeline development.
• Risk Mitigation & Issue Escalation: Proactively flag production bottlenecks, competing brand deadlines, or resourcing deficits. Formulate pragmatic contingency plans and escalate critical path blockers to creative leadership with clear solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing or related discipline
• 5+ years project management experience from an in-house creative services role or agency project/account management role with a strong understanding of creative development and production process (digital, print, and broadcast)
• Must be an effective relationship builder to establish credibility and form business partnerships with internal partners
• Logically plan and sort out information coupled with being nimble and flexible with quick reaction and performance under deadline pressures
• Experience managing processes, resources and schedules with a strong sense of urgency and ability to problem-solve and be resourceful
• MAC proficient and skilled using MS Office applications. Experience managing projects in a project management software tool such as Monday.com.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision
• term life insurance
• paid vacation/holidays
• 401(k) with Company match
• associate discount on Catalyst Brands merchandise
• eight paid holidays during the calendar year
• additional compensation for hourly associates scheduled on a designated holiday