Sr Manager, Creative Project Management

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Creative Project Managers by setting clear expectations, providing direct feedback, building capability, and supporting their growth and self-sufficiency.
• Maintain close oversight of the creative project-management process, including intake, scoping, briefs, project setup, kickoffs, milestones, reviews, approvals, production, and delivery.
• Directly manage complex, high-visibility creative campaigns, including seasonal programming, integrated campaigns, collaborations, partnerships, and e-commerce initiatives.
• Connect seasonal creative development, integrated campaigns, planned weekly production, and exception-based work so teams understand how individual deliverables fit into the broader creative environment and customer journey.
• Maintain visibility into priorities, capacity, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional implications. Identify issues early, recommend tradeoffs, and escalate with options and a clear point of view.
• Translate changing or incomplete inputs into clear actions: what changed, why it matters, who owns the next step, what may be affected, and what decision is required.
• Help the team interpret briefs, clarify deliverables, and identify where missed steps or incomplete upstream decisions may create downstream production issues.
• Partner across Marketing, Creative, E-commerce, Media, agencies, and other business teams to clarify objectives, channel needs, stakeholders, deliverables, deadlines, and decision rights.
• Serve as a trusted Creative Project Management liaison and senior point of contact for E-commerce, connecting e-commerce priorities, site and channel requirements, customer experience considerations, and creative delivery across partner teams.
• Protect strategic intent and Creative capacity by setting practical boundaries around feedback, proofing, approvals, late changes, and stakeholder participation while maintaining strong working relationships.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading creative project management, integrated marketing, account management, campaign operations, or a comparable function in-house, at an agency, or in a similarly complex environment.
• Proven people-leadership experience, including coaching managers and experienced individual contributors, setting performance expectations, providing candid feedback, and developing business judgment and leadership behaviors.
• Strong understanding of creative development and production across multiple channels, with the ability to partner credibly with Creative leaders and translate marketing objectives into executable work.
• Experience operating in a matrixed, fast-changing organization where priorities, inputs, and stakeholders may shift without a fully standardized upstream process.
• Business acumen and the ability to understand how timing, scope, resources, dependencies, customer experience, channel roles, and strategic choices affect one another.
• A proactive, structured approach to ambiguity. You can take imperfect information, identify what is known and unknown, establish a path forward, and keep others aligned as details evolve.
• Clear, direct communication and strong executive presence. You are comfortable setting boundaries, handling pushback, and explaining the implications of delays, missing inputs, or changed requirements.
• Experience with basic project and workflow-management tools; Workfront experience is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, advertising, communications, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

• Enjoy a rewarding career at Catalyst, where we offer a competitive benefits package, a vibrant work environment, and the opportunity to make a difference with America's most iconic brands.
• Generous benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance starting on day one, term life insurance, paid vacation/holidays, 401(k) Savings Plan with company match, and an associate discount across all Catalyst Brands.
• Opportunities for growth and development: We are committed to helping our employees grow their careers and develop their skills. We offer a variety of training and development programs, as well as opportunities for advancement.
• Collaborative and supportive culture: We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We encourage teamwork and collaboration, and we are always looking for ways to support our employees' success.