Employment

Project Manager

Open Role: Part-Time Project Manager

TrailHead Creative seeks a project manager to help direct workflow, ensure project timelines, and communicate with clients and freelancers. TrailHead Creative is a small, growing team of creatives obsessed with the outdoors. This position has the potential to become full-time.

Location: Hybrid, Richmond, Va

Company: TrailHead Creative

Job Title: Project Manager

Reports To: Creative Director

About TrailHead Creative

We’re a brand marketing agency that specializes in helping small to medium-sized businesses grow. We primarily work with brands in the outdoor space but welcome any clients that align with our core values of Community, Conservation, and Craft. Our primary clientele includes fly fishing guides, outdoor NPO’s and regional businesses focused on community building or conservation.

Role Overview

As our project manager, you will manage project timelines and outcomes. A detail-oriented person, you should guarantee that all projects are delivered on time and budget, with all necessary deliverables. You will be directly responsible for communicating with clients, freelancers, and our internal creative team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the development, review, and approval of creative projects

    • This includes print (including catalogs, mailers, invitations, linebooks and advertisements) and video productions (including commercials, social media and out of home)

  • Develop timelines and manage the flow of creative projects from initial creative brief and development to delivery and production of final assets

  • Ensure projects are prioritized, resourced, meet requirements, align with brand standards, and are delivered on time

  • Partner with other project managers to assess capacity across the broader creative team based on an understanding of all active and upcoming work

  • Regularly communicate and present project schedules, statuses, and updates to various team members

  • Identify obstacles the creative team might face within a project lifecycle and proactively finds solutions to avoid delays in project completion

  • Act as a primary contact between the creative team (graphic designers, web designers, copywriters, photo studio) and business teams (marketing, wholesale, e-commerce), to coordinate timelines, provide required information/documents, follow up on outstanding deliverables, and ensure flawless, timely execution

  • Ensure projects are routed for proper approval

  • Organize, attend, and lead kick-off and status meetings with key players to ensure that project needs and deadlines are being met, and send a clear and concise recap of next steps

  • Proactively and consistently conceive of, define, and develop process improvements to increase efficiency and productivity across the creative team as well as cross-functional teams.

  • Work with external vendors to guide and enable their success and ensure they are agile in response to changes and needs of various stakeholders

  • Manage vendor relationships and resources regarding deadlines and budget needs

Competencies

  • Proven ability to handle multiple projects at once and adapt quickly to changing priorities

  • Highly organized and attentive to detail

  • Ability to collaborate cross multi-department teams

  • Passion for the outdoors, conservation, community and craft

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Knowledgeable in creative input and design direction to assist the creative team with feedback from executive and business teams

  • Ability to negotiate and manage external agencies & partners

  • Understand of video post-production, music licensing and voice over talent.

  • Knowledgeable in all areas of the creative process, from briefs to creative development through completion.

  • Interest to learn and develop personal skills and project management abilities.

Why Join Us?

• Flexible schedule: Work when it’s best for you!

• Opportunity to work with passionate clients in a variety of industries

• Collaborative, supportive team environment.

How to Apply:

Please send a brief explanation of why you’d be an excellent fit for this role to james@trailheadcreate.com