Advertising Project Manager

About the role

This role leads end-to-end project management for integrated advertising campaigns, ensuring on-time delivery across creative, production, digital, and media workstreams for a high-visibility marketing team.

Responsibilities

• Own full project lifecycle management for advertising campaigns, from initial intake and briefing through final asset delivery
• Manage timelines, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, schedules, and trafficking across 2-3 major campaigns simultaneously, each with approximately 20-week lifecycles
• Coordinate execution across multiple internal teams and external agency partners spanning creative, strategy, digital, digital production, traditional production, TV/broadcast, radio, paid media, web, app, loyalty, customer insights, and legal
• Manage the movement of creative assets through multiple rounds of review, revisions, and approvals, holding stakeholders accountable to deadlines
• Communicate campaign status and upcoming milestones proactively to senior stakeholders, including leadership reporting to executive levels
• Balance high-visibility, large-scale campaigns with simultaneously running ad hoc, fast-moving projects
• Support the team's expanded use of Adobe Workfront beyond proofing and into more robust project management workflows

Requirements

• 8 years of project management experience with a deep advertising and/or creative project management background
• Proven experience managing integrated advertising campaigns across traditional and digital channels
• Strong understanding of the creative and production lifecycle, including coordination across internal teams and external agency partners
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, timelines, dependencies, approvals, and stakeholders simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Strong PMO fundamentals with the ability to independently manage a significant workload without close oversight
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong executive presence, including comfort holding senior stakeholders accountable to deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Adobe Workfront for project management, not limited to proofing functionality
• Familiarity with other creative proofing and review tools
• Experience working with traditional production houses for TV/broadcast and radio
• Experience managing large-scale, integrated campaigns supported by significant paid media budgets
• Background in budget management or resource planning in an advertising or agency environment

Pay

$60.00-$66.00/hour on W2

Schedule

Hybrid, Media, PA (4 days onsite, 1 day remote). Contract, 6 months. Start date: Mid-September 2026.

Benefits

• Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K