Project Manager

Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.

At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

Ralph Lauren Agency (RLA) Project Managers are a partner within the Agency and to cross functional partners across the company.They support end-to-end lifecycle of projects, processes and initiatives to bring our campaigns to life. RLA Project Managers partner with Marketing, Design, Creative and Production to align the macro-overview and micro details for all campaigns from pre-brief to delivery of shoots, digital and traditional media assets.

This role requires a strong understanding of project management, collaborative approach, expert communication and developing

people manager skills.

• Maintain strong partnerships with Marketing, Design, Creative, and Production
• Control the flow of information by collecting, organizing and sharing the appropriate details at the appropriate time.
• Clearly communicate project status in weekly wrap up reports as well as other necessary touch points.
• Support all aspects of a project, including project planning, communication, scheduling, budget management, approvals,issue and risk tracking from ideation to delivery and beyond.
• Work with Marketing to understand budget requirements and manage the bottoms up build with Production.
• Manage and enforce timelines for world-class execution of all requests.
• Calendar all cross functional meetings including manage meeting attendee lists. With oversight, responsible for kicking off/setting up each conversation, wrapping up at the end with action items and follow up notes.
• Assists in creative reviews ensuring alignment to the brief and strategic direction.
• Collaborate with Marketing on Deliverables Matrix to Ensure Production and Creative are clear on expectations and priority shots/needs.
• Partner with Rights Management to ensure all final assets are right secured.
• Manages multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
• Routinely prioritize balancing the pursuit of opportunity and the application of resources appropriately for maximum benefit to the business.
• Manage changes to project scope to ensure proper risk mitigation.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation and reporting for all assigned projects including timelines, dependencies, contingencies, requirements, status, progress and risks.
• Regularly provide updates to Agency Project Management Lead and to project stakeholders as directed.
• Schedule and support productive meetings that push projects towards completion
  
  

Salary range: $62,500 - $146,000 annually

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Account management experience at an Agency or in a high paced environment with a background in project management/creative operations
• Experience with photo, video and digital production
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) with a successful track record building relationships
• Analytic, data driven thinker with a focus on finding innovative solutions to old (and new) challenges
• Experience working in a complex corporate structure and an ability to influence across departmental boundaries to affect positive change. Ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Direct and indirect people leadership and management
• Proactive in seeking feedback from leadership, cross functional partners and peers
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Comfortable with ambiguity and frequent change
• Leverages critical thinking to reduce complexity and solve problems as they arise.
• Applies understanding of project management principles to improve current processes.
• Expert user of project management tools such as Asana, Monday.com and Jira
• Ability to connect project goals to the larger goals of the company and to help direct reports do the same