Creative Project Manager
Job Summary
Light Up 7 is seeking a Project Manager to join their marketing team and execute cutting-edge campaigns for well-known brands. The role involves managing project timelines, budgets, and team resources while ensuring high-quality client deliverables. The ideal candidate will have 1-2+ years of experience in digital agency project management with strong communication and organizational skills.
Responsibilities
- Manage project plans, timelines, and budgets
- Monitor team activities and project deliverables
- Oversee client expectations and communications
- Mitigate project risks and scope creep
- Prepare project documentation like SLAs and NDAs
Required Skills
- 1-2+ years digital agency experience
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent communication and presentation abilities
- Proficiency in Office Suite and Google Workspace
- Fluent in English and Bahasa Malaysia
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Fully understand the client objectives and project goals and articulate them clearly.
- Develop project plans and work with project teams to execute on plans.
- Monitor day-to-day activities of project teams and ensure work is progressing as planned.
- Manage schedules, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project deliverables dates are clearly communicated, understood, and executed upon.
- Manage resource assignments to the project, and proactively identify resource challenges.
- Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance.
- Consistently identify needs that clients may not recognize and ensure approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs.
- Consistently manage client expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback.
- Communicate and document project status to clients, team members, and management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels.
- Create and manage functional specs documentation along with project team members.
- Recap and create debriefs for every completed project; facilitate discussions on lessons learned and new knowledge gained; document properly and share.
- Prepare project documents such as SLAs, NDAs, execution plans, etc.
Requirements & Skills:
- 1-2+ years of experience in digital agency project management or experience in managing projects, especially related to design, video, digital marketing and website development.
- A keen interest in the creative digital industry.
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written, presentation) with excellent client relationship management abilities.
- Self-motivated, organised, detail-oriented, with proficient problem-solving techniques.
- Able to remain level-headed and maintain a positive attitude under pressure.
- Passion for continuous learning and developing new skills in a fast-paced digital environment.
- Keen interest in staying updated with the latest digital platforms and technologies.
- Passion for AI and emerging technologies, with a commitment to continuous learning and adaptation.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Google Workspace, and other web-based tools: knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite is an additional advantage.
- Required language(s): English, Bahasa Malaysia.