Senior Strategic Projects Manager Creative Services

Owns the day-to-day management of global campaign creative plans, acting as the primary contact for the PUMA PICA team, external agency partners and key project stakeholders. It drives the creative process from initial project conception through to final delivery to local markets, under leadership oversight. The post-holder leads and manages creative project workflows, seasonal timelines, prioritisation and resource allocation across multiple stakeholder groups and channels within a matrix organisation.

• Manage the day-to-day ownership of global campaign creative plans.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for the PUMA PICA team, external agency partners and key project stakeholders.
• Drive the creative process, setting and leading all critical milestones from initial project conception through to final delivery to local markets.
• Facilitate consistent and clear communication of creative decisions, ensuring full project status transparency and communicating project status and next steps daily.
• Lead and facilitate internal discussions to foster collaboration across teams and accomplish key creative tasks, including defining creative deliverables, allocating project resources, assessing briefs and project scope, and running creative approval reviews.
• Provide regular updates to Creative Project Management leadership to keep projects on track and solve problems efficiently, and recommend course corrections to planned project flow as business needs change.
• Compile regular presentations and status updates in conjunction with Creative Services leadership.
• Lead and manage creative project workflows, including briefing processes, project prioritisation and resource allocation, and ensure best-practice creative workflows and processes are adhered to.
• Lead and disseminate seasonal project timelines, driving collaborative creative processes under tight schedules and across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Assign creative team members to tasks based on expertise and workload, and manage internal and external creative reviews and approvals.
• Oversee multiple channels of work simultaneously using the organisation's workflow tools, proactively identifying and developing solutions for specific process issues or potential roadblocks.
• Create and maintain project-reporting documents on an ongoing basis.

• 7+ years of project management or account management experience within an in-house creative brand or agency.
• Bachelor's degree in communications, advertising, marketing or a related field.
• Strong ability to maintain focus under pressure, keeping a positive yet confident demeanour.
• Drives and expects high standards for work output and behaviour of self and others; accountable, assertive and dependable.
• Exceptional verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to deliver key project highlights quickly and effectively across multiple levels of stakeholders.
• Strong management skills and the ability to drive multiple complex projects forward simultaneously, escalating project issues effectively and generating solutions proactively.
• Experience managing internal creative workflows of multidisciplinary campaigns.
• Strong ability to work autonomously and within a matrix organisation.
• Comfortable working with high-level executives, external partners and talent.

• Digital background.
• Experience in design and/or production.

PUMA is a global sports brand creating footwear, apparel and accessories that inspire athletes and everyday movers. The PUMA Group owns PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, operates in more than 120 countries and employs around 22,000 people worldwide. PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age or disability, and does not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.