The Creative Project Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the workflow of the in-house creative team, ensuring projects move efficiently from concept through final delivery. This role partners closely with designers, copywriters, marketers, and cross-functional stakeholders to facilitate communication, prioritize work, and maintain project timelines.
Responsibilities: Champion creative excellence while balancing timelines, priorities, and business needs.
Project Coordination & Workflow Management
- Coordinate multiple creative projects simultaneously, including print, digital, packaging, video, social media, and marketing campaigns.
- Develop and maintain project timelines, schedules and task assignments.
- Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, or delays.
- Understand all brand & creative guidelines to help understand projects and question them before assigning to team members.
- Ensure all deliverables meet deadlines, brand standards, and stakeholder expectations.
Communication & Collaboration
- Serve as the liaison between creative teams, marketing, and external vendors.
- Collaborate during concept development, providing input that supports creative problem-solving and effective execution.
- Schedule and facilitate project meetings, kickoff sessions, and status updates.
- Maintain clear and organized communication across all project stakeholders.
- Monitor assets for timeliness as they flow through our proofing system, Manage Artworks.
- Foster collaboration between creative, marketing, product, and leadership teams to ensure alignment on project goals.
- Identify bottlenecks, escalate potential issues before they threaten the success of the project.
- Identify opportunities to improve creative workflows and project efficiencies.
Creative Operations Support
- Manage creative requests and prioritize workloads based on business needs.
- Support process improvements to increase team efficiency and workflow consistency.
Vendor & Production Coordination
- Coordinate with printers and production vendors as needed.
- Track project invoices, estimates, and production costs when applicable.
- Ensure deliverables are prepared correctly for production or publication i.e. file types are correct.
Qualifications:
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field required.
- 2-4 years of direct, hands-on project coordination/management experience within a creative, marketing, agency, e-commerce, or production environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional projects from initiation through completion.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong project coordination, organization, and multitasking skills.
- Familiarity with print production processes, creative specifications, and print vendor quoting is strongly desired. Candidates should have a basic understanding of print production, production timelines, and common printing methods.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects and shifting priorities simultaneously under pressure.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and risk management skills.
- Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all departments and organizational levels.
- Understanding of creative development, production, and marketing workflows.
Technical Skills
- Proficiency with project management platforms, such as Monday.com, is required.
- Experience with workflow management, proofing, and digital asset management systems is required.
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and creative production processes is preferred.
- Strong Microsoft Office and/or Google Workspace skills.
We proudly offer: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with Company Match, Pet insurance and more!
We reward the hard work of our team members with fun and exciting company events, Summer Picnic, Festive Packages, Holiday Celebrations, and associate referral bonuses!
Founded in 2011, Piping Rock Health Products has gone on to win Long Island's Top Workplaces Award 8 years in a row & securing the spot as Top Supplement Manufacturing Company 2024 by Food Business Review! Supported by a group of vitamin visionaries with over 40 years of industry experience and a carefully curated team of talented associates. Piping Rock is a global vitamin and supplement manufacturer with an unwavering commitment to creating quality wellness products. We believe that family always comes first, and that the dedication of our associates is the key ingredient to our success.
We are a drug free workplace, regulated by the FDA, required to follow Federal Guidelines; therefore in order to start as well as maintain employment, you must be able to successfully clear drug screening processes, which include testing for all illegal substances per Federal Guidelines.
Piping Rock Health Products, INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.