Project Manager 2

About the role

Collide, part of the Propelis Group, provides brand activation solutions across print, promo, digital and fabrication, supporting large and small brands around the world from brand creation to implementation. Must live in St Louis, MO or Cincinnati, OH. Serve as Project Manager for a limited number of key accounts. As a key facilitator within the supply chain for packaging, you may be communicating with design firms, sales, on-site personnel and/or clients any given day as part of your role. Within Collide, you will effectively communicate specifications for each piece of packaging artwork on your brands by utilizing our order entry system as well as being a resource for production departments when issues or questions arise. This is a hybrid role requiring the individual to be in the office multiple days a week.

Responsibilities

• Consult with On-Site Personnel and/or Client during the artwork development and pre-press execution
• Run and/or attend any pre-production meetings (or other meetings), when feasible, per On-Site Personnel’s/Sales request or request of the Client for high complexity projects
• Manages key accounts
• Respond in a timely manner to requests from Clients, On-Site Personnel, sales and others
• Lead and manage relationships with our Client(s) and internal and external stakeholders
• Communicate artwork issues with the client as well as internal and external stakeholders
• Document all critical and pertinent information that may impact quality
• Participate in process improvement efforts and various production meetings to foster a positive creative impact on the business
• Verify technical supplied data is correct to supplied art
• Manage project timelines and simultaneously manages multiple projects, when required
• Communicate received and shipped art to On-Site Personnel/Sales and perform user functionality in a Client’s database used for tracking artwork projects
• Understand the Client’s process (deliverables, rework)
• Communicate issues to Management
• Order entry (ensure orders are complete and concise when delivered to production)

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED equivalent. Some College / Associate’s Degree preferred. 3+ years’ experience preferred. Experience in the Print, Comping/Sales Sample or POP/POS industry. Full comprehension in reading work instructions and business memos. Proofreading skills required. Ability to work independently. Project Management experience.

Qualifications

Physical demands: Regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. Frequently required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Skills

Proofreading, project management, ability to work independently, communication with design firms, sales, on-site personnel and clients, order entry, process improvement, technical data verification, managing multiple projects, stakeholder relationship management.

Benefits

• Selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage
• Dental plan
• Vision plan
• Basic and supplemental life insurance
• Flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection
• Short/long term disability
• 401(k) Savings Plan

Pay

The U.S. pay range for this position is $45,292 - $56,615 annually.

Schedule

Hybrid role requiring the individual to be in the office multiple days a week.