Creative Project Manager

About Albertsons Companies Inc. (ACI):

As a leading food and drug retailer in the United States, Albertsons Companies, Inc. operates over 2,200 stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners across the United States, including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco and others, serve more than 36 million U.S customers each week.

We build and shape technology solutions that solve customers problems every day, making things easier for them when they shop with us online or in a store. We have made bold, strategic moves to migrate and modernize our core foundational capabilities, positioning ourselves as the first fully cloud-based grocery tech company in the industry.

Our success is built on a one-team approach, driven by the desire to understand and enhance the customer experience. By constantly pushing the boundaries of retail, we are transforming shopping into an experience that is easy, efficient, fun and engaging.

About Albertsons India Capability Center:

At Albertsons India Capability Center, we're not just pushing the boundaries of technology and retail innovation, we're cultivating a space where ideas flourish and careers thrive. Our workplace in India is a vital extension of the Albertsons Companies Inc. workforce and important to the next phase in the companys technology journey to support millions of customers lives every day.

At the Albertsons India Capability Center, we are raising the bar to grow across Technology & Engineering, AI, Digital and other company functions, and transform a 165-year-old American retailer. At Albertsons India Capability Center, associates collaborate directly with international teams, enhancing decision-making processes and organizational agility through exciting and pivotal projects. Your work will make history and help millions of lives each day come together around the joys of food and inspire their well-being.

Creative Project Manager:

Value Prop: translate creative ambition into executable scalable programs. By orchestrating cross-functional teams, optimizing workflows, and ensuring disciplined delivery, this role accelerates speed to market while protecting creative quality and advertiser goals. The Creative Project Manager enables consistency, transparency and efficiency across complex creative initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a project manager for the creative operations team, managing a steady and constant workflow process for a busy creative team.
• Work directly with endemic and non-endemic partners on outlining all creative requirements for successful campaign activation.
• Serve as a creative strategist to our endemic partners and partner with the larger media team on campaign planning.
• Maintain creative timelines for multiple campaigns and communication with partners to ensure timelines are met and to answer any questions.
• Act as the creative subject matter expert for all client programs including but not limited to annual planning, quarterly business reviews and campaign wrap reports.
• Interface with other project managers, marketing managers, coordinators and stakeholders to build relationships and to ensure efficient workflows.
• Interface with legal council for any questions pertaining to a specific campaign.
• Attend weekly calls with cross-functional teams to ensure projects are hitting timelines.
• Maintain the digital asset management system for multiple campaigns simultaneously.
• Manage the quality assurance process between the creative team and endemic and non-endemic partners.
• Manage the flow of creative files with various cross-functional marketing teams.
• Manage creative kick-off calls with internal agencies and management.

Desired skill-set:

• 3-5 years producer experience or project management experience in an agency or in-house creative team.
• Highly organized with experience managing small to medium-sized projects with multiple stakeholders and creative outputs.
• Experience working with global partners and agencies (production, broadcast, creative vendors and video production).
• Excellent communication skills.
• A strong understanding of branding, writing design and the creative process.
• Experience collaborating with external creative agencies and production partners.
• A strong passion for creative excellence while also balancing stakeholder needs and deadlines
• Ability to be successful in a fast-paced, and sometimes undefined, environment.
• Efficient in Microsoft Suites.