We are passionate Toy Creators! We’ve been coming up with new ideas that bring kids and families together for over 40 years! This passion leads us to attack the day ahead like there is no tomorrow. Above all we are a Creative Company where positivity, fun and great ideas are at the core of who we are! We have an exciting opportunity in our Atlanta Office for a Project Manager.
The Project Manager is a critical team position that manages multiple concurrent project schedules and ensures internal team deliverables are on time. This position works with all disciplines on projects to include Creative, Engineering, Asia Office, Account Service, and Product Safety/Quality.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Creates and publishes master schedules for all assigned projects. Assigns and tracks all tasks and milestones related to schedules. Ensure that all projects are completed on time.
- Collaborates with project team (Hong Kong, Product Safety/Quality, Account, Creative, Industrial Design, Engineering, Logistics, Finance) on milestone objectives and timeline adherence creating action plans on missed dates and making changes to the schedule as necessary.
- Anticipates problems and works with internal team on problem solving to ensure on-time delivery.
- Leads regular production meetings providing project and critical milestone updates.
- Provides a fair and full accounting of project details for assigned programs, tracks major schedule KPIs.
- Working with our warehouse partners, manages inventory and fulfillment for assigned clients ensuring a sufficient supply chain.
- Manages monthly mass shipments with partner warehouse for key client
Requirements for the position:
- Bachelors in related field and 4+ years’ experience working in a consumer products company or marketing related business
- Experience in project or creative traffic management where organizational abilities, process adherence, problem solving and attention to detail are critical
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage critical timelines
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively interface at all levels of the organization including Asia office
- Must have the ability to influence team members and be firm on project timeline adherence
- Must be a self-starter with a positive demeanor that enjoys working with a high functioning team
- Has a competent understanding of production lifecycle and the ability to multitask with multiple programs at various stages of development
- Experience using MS office with an emphasis on Excel proficiency; knowledge of MS Project and Power BI preferred
