Creative Project Manager

Project overview

Our healthcare agency client is seeking a Creative Project Manager to support the successful delivery of multi-channel creative and marketing initiatives by coordinating cross-functional teams, managing project workflows, and ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. This role is ideal for a proactive, organized professional with experience in creative project environments who enjoys collaborating with strategists, creatives, and business stakeholders to bring marketing campaigns and content to life.

The role manages multiple low- to medium-complexity projects while contributing to process improvements and operational excellence.

Project details

12 months Hours per Week: Full-time; 40 hours/week Location: Onsite in Abbott Park, IL Top 3 Required Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of project management experience within a creative agency, marketing, advertising, or related creative environment
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent creative projects, timelines, stakeholders, budgets, and deliverables
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with experience working across creative, marketing, and business teams Other Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Marketing, Business, or a related field
• Knowledge of creative project workflows, campaign development processes, and content production
• Experience using project management software and maintaining detailed project documentation
• Ability to identify, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, and opportunities
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Familiarity with project forecasting, budget tracking, reporting, and performance metrics
• PMP certification or comparable project management certification preferred
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving, and continuous improvement mindset Key Responsibilities
• Lead and manage multiple creative and marketing projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery within scope and budget
• Create, maintain, and update project plans, schedules, and documentation within project management systems
• Collaborate with strategists, creative directors, copywriters, designers, and other stakeholders to execute integrated marketing campaigns and content initiatives
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify project risks, issues, dependencies, and opportunities
• Escalate concerns appropriately and communicate project status to stakeholders and leadership
• Serve as a primary point of contact between business partners, internal teams, and external vendors
• Support scope management, project closeout activities, and lessons learned documentation
• Assist with forecasting, budget tracking, reporting, and project performance metrics
• Contribute to process improvements that enhance team efficiency and project delivery
• Foster strong working relationships across project teams and recognize team achievements and contributions
• Help ensure creative work aligns with brand standards, strategic objectives, and business goals
• Support the successful execution of low- to medium-complexity creative projects while maintaining high-quality deliverables and stakeholder satisfaction In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data, including medical data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment. Additionally, drug products may be present in the workplace. Benefits
• Start: flexible
• Duration: 12 months
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Abbott Park, IL, US
• Rate: 39-40 EUR/h