Project Manager - Creative Team

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Project Manager | Shaw Contract Creative Team

Who + What:

Shaw Contract is a global design leader in commercial flooring for some of the world’s most creative and innovative environments. Our vast, sustainable product offerings can be found in diverse markets such as workplace, healthcare, hospitality, education and multi-family dwellings; supporting the spaces in which we work, learn, live, play and heal. Design is at the heart of everything we do – not only in how things look, but in how they function, solve problems and inspire. We believe design lives at the intersection of aesthetics, innovation, functionality and customer experience across every product, service and interaction.

Guided by insight and grounded in sustainability, we create specialized products and tools that meet the unique needs of every market segment shaping spaces that endure, empower and elevate the people who use them. 

Design is the fiber that connects everything we do. The ground we stand upon and the future we boldly create for all. Join our culture of design thinking.

We are looking for a proactive self-starter who is organized, curious, able to navigate conflict, a strong communicator and connector who can manage multiple creative projects at a single time within a fast-paced organization. The right candidate must be passionate about process, meeting deadlines, driving results and being a team player. They are responsible for assuring the creative team has what they need to grow and improve the Shaw Contract brand. This position is hybrid and will work from our commercial marketing campus full-time in Cartersville, GA.

The Project Manager's primary responsibility is to manage the workflow for all internal creative projects. This position will work closely with the Creative Director , Associate Creative Director, Designers and Marketing team to ensure projects maintain their critical path and that all deliverable deadlines are met on time. Success is measured by meeting timelines and coordinating resources. At the end of the day, you are responsible for keeping things moving.

Be an octopus. Eight arms, three hearts & nine brains. Able to navigate the depths of the sea using your flexibility superpower. Octopuses are quite intelligent and have been observed using tools.

Essential Project Management Toolkit:

• With the support of the creative team and marketing team as the Project Manager you will connect the pieces and parts of all projects, not through execution but rather through hunting and gathering to set the creative team up for success.

• Highly adaptable in forms of communication and task conflict, and not easily deterred.

• Manage workflows, schedules, and traffic of projects from concept to completion to ensure timelines, scope and budgets are met.

  • gather project requirements

  • define tasks

  • establish project plan/schedule

  • confirm cost structures

  • allocate resources in Workfront

  • oversee execution of the project

  • manage internal traffic systems

  • route work for review and approval

  • assist in archiving files/assets

• Knowledge of project management software (Workfront preferred).

• Provide regular and necessary updates on project timing and development to stakeholders, both written and verbal.

• Monitor designers’ workload to ensure timely completion and continued productivity. Hold status meetings with creative team to answer questions, align on priorities and help as needed to remove barriers. Provide team members with all necessary specifications and assets to execute requests efficiently and effectively.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management workflows.

• Assist in maintaining marketing roadmap by partnering with teammates to determine priorities, outline and execute their creative needs and identify new opportunities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4-year business, marketing degree or relevant experience.

• Excellent problem solver with a strong sense of ownership + collaborative

• Effective project management skills, excellent organizational skills, planning skills,
  time-management skills, and outstanding attention to detail.

• An eagerness to learn and grow with the ability to be flexible in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience working with cross functional teams.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Excellent computer skills: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and knowledge of project management software (Workfront preferred).

Although our highly distributed workforce can be found around the globe, Shaw Contract is based out of Cartersville, Georgia and construction is underway on our new highly sustainable, world-class Create Centre facility, which will be home to product development and marketing for our commercial division, demonstrating our commitment to hiring the best talent. We hire humble, collaborative and ambitious people and give them endless opportunities to grow and succeed. Shaw Contract is the commercial design brand for Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a vertically integrated manufacturer that supplies carpet, hardwood, laminate, resilient, tile & stone flooring products and synthetic turf to residential and commercial markets globally. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, and with manufacturing in the United States, Mexico and China, Shaw is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $4.5 billion in annual sales and 23,000 associates worldwide.

Competencies: 

People: Build Trusting Relationships

Strategy: Deliver Compelling Communications

Strategy: Plan and Organize insuring on time and targeted deliverables 

Strategy: Demonstrate urgency for on time and targeted deliverables

Shaw Benefits Include:  

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  

• Life insurance and disability coverage  

• Tuition reimbursement  

• Employee assistance program  

• Health savings account  

• Paid Time Off  

• Parental Leave  

• 401K and Retirement Plans  

• Product discounts for employees  

• Adoption assistance  

• Shaw Family Health Center (Dalton, GA, and Cartersville, GA, locations) 

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