Senior Marketing Creative Manager

Opportunity Overview

Team Overview:
Join a world-class creative team within Edward Jones that develops bold, high-quality work supporting our in-house, full-service agency model. Our team brings together strategists, writers, designers, producers, and project managers who combine impeccable taste and talent to create work that elevates our brand across every medium and channel. As we continue to grow, we're seeking seasoned brand and advertising talents who are energized by complex creative challenges and passionate about building the processes that unlock great work. If you're ready to influence at scale and help shape the future of our creative operations (and our firm), this is the place for you.

What You'll Do:
As a Senior Creative Manager, you'll lead the full project lifecycle for moderate to highly complex creative initiatives-from intake and planning through execution and delivery. Many of these projects will have non-linear problem solving and processes and bring together multiple stakeholders, vendors and cross-creative team coordination. You will serve as the primary project manager on most assignments, ensuring scope alignment, schedules, resources, approvals, and communication across the project lifecycle remains on track and flexible when needed. In this player-coach role, you'll also champion process improvements, project management tools, and evolve the operational excellence across the team.
Here are a few of the Key Responsibilities:

• Lead project management for multiple creative initiatives across creative team(s), business areas, audiences, external vendors, and media deliverables.
• Develop and manage holistic project and resource plans using established methodologies and tools - from ideation and concept to execution and delivery.
• Anticipate and resolve project risks, issues, and logistical challenges while communicating impacts to stakeholders.
• Provide proactive project updates, milestone communication, and process to decision-driven insights to partners and business areas.
• Oversee legal, compliance, and brand approvals, including FINRA or copyright submission (if needed).
• Embed yourself in and build strong partnerships with creative teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors/freelancers.
• Manage scopes of work, budgets, and billing throughout the project lifecycle, and when necessary, work with leaders to manage vendor selection.
• Champion process, workflow, and technology improvements that continually elevate quality, efficiency, and team performance.

EEO Statement

Edward Jones does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

Company Description

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500¹ company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.

Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.

People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

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¹Fortune 500, published June 2024, data as of December 2023. Compensation provided for using, not obtaining, the rating.

Awards and Accolades

At Edward Jones, we are building a place where everyone feels like they belong. We're proud of our associates' contributions to the firm and the recognitions we have received.

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Position Requirements

What You'll Need:

• 8+ years of project management experience in a corporate marketing or creative agency environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Advertising, Marketing, Communications, Business or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in waterfall and agile methodologies; project management certifications preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple moderate to highly complex initiatives with changing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Experience using project management platforms such as Jira, Confluence, Workfront, Trello or comparable tools.
• Ability to manage timing, budgets, and resource allocation on creative projects of varying scale.
• Experience overseeing legal/compliance/brand approvals and managing documentation/record retention.
• Proven ability to manage vendor and freelance relationships, including scoping, budgeting, and contracting.

Salary Information

Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page.