Grounded in a talent-centric mindset, Maker Lab is a marketing agency designed to build decentralised technology-led agency teams, rooted in collaboration with clients from the ground up. Maker Lab’s cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary specialists are embedded into client teams across digital marketing competencies — from measurement & analytics to content production.
Project Manager (Creative) (VN)
Maker Lab supports clients across technology, entertainment, financial services, and the payments industry. We’re looking for dynamic individuals to join our team and support our amazing real estate-focused technology client.
As a Project Manager, you’re the go-to person for all incoming briefs and the central system of team operations for all things creative. Ideally, you should have experience managing creative and brand campaigns across APAC. It’s imperative to be a self-starter with a can-do attitude, leading all creative-related workstreams, including campaign coordination, handoffs, and approvals.
In addition to day-to-day requirements—ensuring work meets the mark—you should also have a collaborative spirit, working closely with teams through the process and lending input on creative concepts where you see fit. Combining a meticulous and efficient work attitude is key to what we’re looking for.
Role:
- You’ll be responsible for managing the project for APAC branding and creative teams and their day-to-day coordination, as well as long-term projects and productions.
- You’ll manage all assigned projects and be familiar with scoping resources for varied project types, including branding and social media, digital, print, and video production.
- Support Creative Director lead in developing creative briefs, strategic set-ups, and campaign roll-out plans.
- You own the process from the start of the brief to the filing of final delivery assets.
- Clarifying project requirements, internalising briefs and working with clients to improve those wherever needed.
- Working with internal team members when presenting ideas visually and in writing; collaborating with the client to select the most fitting concepts.
- You’ll be managing team tasks, bandwidth, and resources and will be able to comprehensively track scope.
- Track timelines, meeting schedules, and team resource capabilities; keep all involved stakeholders and team members informed of progress and any shortfalls.
- Managing and communicating changes to the scope, schedule and costs and escalating to management as and when needed.
- Identify areas of opportunity for improvement and efficiency, both within the team and externally. This includes flagging and preempting potential challenges in resource and bandwidth the team might face.
- Keen to continually explore and optimise ideas or processes.
- Agile and able to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing and dynamic environment.
You:
- 6+ years of experience in an agency or in-house team, familiar with the creative process.
- A hyper-organised and accountable individual with experience working in a dynamic creative space who can handle projects of different types and scales.
- Great communication and presentation skills, managing expectations and points of view, and putting this together in an action plan.
- Experience managing marketing campaigns across APAC, experience in processing complex production inputs and timelines and ability to distil what is needed for local country teams.
- Have a strong sense of ownership, deliver high-quality work and are curious about the impact of the team’s work on the business.
- Proactive work ethic, with equal ability to think analytically, creatively and conceptually.
- Able to navigate ambiguity and changes, and have proven strength in guiding stakeholders.
- Exceptional verbal and written English communication and presentation skills.
Please note: due to the high volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted with a follow-up introduction email. If you do not receive an email from Maker Lab, your application has been unsuccessful this time around. Look out for future roles! By submitting your application, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your data by the Maker Lab team for the purposes of your application. Where your application contains personal data of third parties, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents to provide the Maker Lab team with such personal data and that we may collect, use and/or disclose such data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012.
