Project Manager

Location: Beaverton, OR
Contract length: ~4 months
Schedule: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR (WFH on Fridays)
Pay: $35-40.85/hr, DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Project Manager to join our well-known retail brand on a roughly 4-month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will work a hybrid schedule in Beaverton, OR, working from home on Fridays. 

Project Manager Qualifications:

• Passion for creativity, sports and culture
• Future-forward thinking with a positive, solution-oriented mindset and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Excellent inter-personal skills and strong team player
• Exceptional written and verbal communicator and strategic thinker that can simplify complex information
• Proven experience managing complex timelines, budgets and deliverables
• Ability to thrive in a matrix environment with multiple business functions and senior stakeholders, cutting through the noise to challenge business priorities and deliver the best creative
• Knowing when and where to speak up to drive solutions
• A commitment to staying up to date with current and future technology, industry trends and creative partners
• Travel 10-20% of the time
• Passionate, exceptionally organized and solutions-oriented thinker
• Creative strategist and thought-partner, instrumental in developing and delivering best-in-class concept expression creative on behalf of the client
• Ability to thrive under pressure, embracing change and knowing when and where to be flexible making you an invaluable partner to your creative and cross functional teammates
• Naturally curious and a doer who is energized by the opportunity to bring new concepts to life
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, ambitious, a forward-thinker
  Experience producing across various mediums, both physical and digital (i.e. content, experiences, retail build, etc.) and can apply your skillsets to the ever-growing landscape
• No matter the project at hand, you nurture creativity and cultivate collaboration with any person/team you partner with as you bring projects through to success
• Whether you’re managing a rig room build, commissioning a 3D animator or engaging a vendor to execute an activation, you don’t get phased by ambiguity– instead, you are energized by the challenge of learning as you go
• Ability to speak up, challenge the brief or project scope and help re-route obstacles to land on new solutions
• Simplify complex information and clear obstacles to give space for the best possible creative solutions
• Bring people together – you’re the master collaborator who knows how to get the best out of everyone

Project Manager Description:

• Manage creative production from planning to final asset executions, delivering premium and inspirational stories and experiences
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team and collaborative to execute against the brief delivering on time and within budget
• From project to project, commission and manage multiple creative partners anywhere from world-renowned agencies to talented individuals all while keeping your focus on delivering
• Drive budget management & contract execution in partnership with Legal
• Ensure that all productions are compliant with the client's processes to mitigate risk on behalf of the brand
• On set or at activations, expertly manage the production, establishing the run of show and maintaining production schedules
• Act as the connection point between all internal & external teams, seamlessly communicating details so that all partners are aligned
• Work with the creative concept team including designers, copywriters, art directors and creative leaders, as well as your broader production team and external creative partners
• On a project basis, work with a variety of Design and Concept team partners, leadership and other cross-functional business functions such as Product Management, Merchandising, Insights, and Marketing
• As the production expert, nurture your external creative network, building strong relationships on behalf of the client to the industry at large
• Expertly manage end-to-end production for projects within the concept design team
• Work directly with creatives and commission work from a varied and broad network of agencies and creative individuals