Account / Project Manager

Job Description

Overview

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the world's leading entertainment and sports agency, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, London and Beijing. Founded in 1975, CAA represents many of the most successful professionals working in film, television, music, theatre, video games, sport, and digital content, and provides a range of strategic marketing and consulting services to corporate clients.

The Role

CAA's Brand Studio is looking for a multifaceted Account/Project Manager to work closely with clients and manage the workflow of incoming projects. The necessary traits to be successful in this role are purpose-driven, optimistic, strategic and understand culturally relevant design. The ideal Account/Project Manager needs to be comfortable wearing many hats, client services oriented and thrive in an innovative design environment.

The Department

We Believe Brands are Values in Motion.

We are a 360º branding agency born out of CAA.

We work with iconic talent and iconic brands to bring exciting concepts to market.

We leverage opportunities to grow our client's businesses by designing new brand concepts. Whether it's spearheading a cultural initiative through a compelling call to action or realizing a client's business objectives through brand positioning and IP creation, our studio crafts branded narratives that unlock communities and place discovery and affinity at the core.

Responsibilities

Support Chief Creative Officer (CCO) in new business process
• Research and seek incremental revenue opportunities with existing and potential clients
• Participate in new business intro meetings and deliver opportunity summary
• Participate in concepting and pitch meetings with design team
• Coordinate pitch timing and calendar for prospective clients
Onboard detailing for engagement of new account projects
• Draft SOW (with CCO) for new projects and circulate approved proposals
• Submit SOW with General Counsel and coordinate reviews/updates with CCO oversight
• Circulate final SOW/Engagement letter with new clients and file booking report
• Follow up with Accounts Payable team for all approved invoices/reimbursables

Preplan with CCO to identify key stakeholders, team roles and responsibilities
• Draft and supply Agenda for project Kick-Off
• Create Project Summary for team/client including key milestones and timeline

Provide weekly updates and run point on coordinating Client reviews
• Coordinate appropriate team involvement pending creative deliverables
• Coordinate and track all approvals from CCO and client until completion

Liaison with creative team members on development status and update group status document accordingly, flag any timeline issues with CCO

Maintain and update line items for managed projects on existing Brand Studio Budget Sheet

Post project review for profitability and process

Qualifications
• 2 + years project management experience at a branding agency or in-house brand of relevant category (lifestyle branding – retail, retail experiential, fashion, beauty, home, food).
• Prior support and working knowledge of the brand development process for new brand initiatives (collabs, product development, packaging, etc).
• Familiarity and experience with new business pipeline development.
• Excellent professional outreach skills and proactive spirit.
• Ability to organize and own workflow and collaborate to maintain best practices throughout the creative development process.
• Experienced with Project Management tools and applications (example: Monday, Slack, etc)

CAA provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CAA will also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities to perform their essential functions unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the Company. This policy governs all aspects of employment, including selection, job assignment, compensation, promotion, discipline, termination of employment, and access to benefits and training.

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d23q95-3-142-119-241-42 in your application.