Liaison Creative + Marketing has an opportunity for a Brand and Creative Operations Manager to join a highly collaborative award-winning creative marketing team, a leader in high-performance PC hardware. This role will focus on financial management, budgets, and talent contracts, supporting a worldwide internal creative team. This could be a great fit to leverage your five years of Project/Financial/Business Management experience as part of a globally recognized brand with a close-knit team! The team is based in Austin TX, but we are ready to hire a fully remote employee who can collaborate during central time business hours based only in one of the states in which we do business: FL, MD, MI, MN, NC, OH, TN, TX, VA, UT, and WI.

• Central role managing budgets related to the creative development of marketing campaigns working with internal creatives, advertising agencies, independent contractors, legal, and procurement
• Onboarding new vendors and contractors in partnership with procurement
• Lead the annual business planning and budget process working with budget owners
• Securing and tracking quotes, reserving funds, processing invoices, and day-to-day financial management supporting the teams
• Assist in day-to-day business management maintaining records of talent contracts, usage rights, licenses, releases, and permissions
• Report on budget status to quarterly budgets identifying potential issues and redeployment

How to be a top candidate for this job:

• 4-6 years of financial and business management experience (role is 70% budget/finance related)
• One year working with a marketing firm, in-house creative team, or advertising agency in an Operations Manager role, we need candidates with exposure to the creative development process. PLEASE clearly outline this experience in our ” How does this opportunity fit you?” portion of our application to be considered for this role
• Experience working with teams to create and execute plans to align with goals and business objectives
• Project management experience supporting financial planning and reporting across multi-projects, budgets, and resources in a fast-paced, high-energy environment
• Experience with purchase orders, processing invoices, and generating talent contracts
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business, finance, or associated field

Skills:

• Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Experience with project management tools, such as SmartSheet and Workfront, a plus

Benefits:

• Full employee benefits package includes 100% Liaison-paid medical and dental insurance
• Paid vacation/sick and holiday leave
• 401k program with company matching
• Paid short- and long-term disability insurance
• Paid group term life insurance
• Optional supplemental insurance and life coverage
• Optional Pet Insurance
• Those enrolled in our medical plan get free enrollment in an Employee Assistance Program.
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