# Creative Project Manager

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Johannesburg, South Africa
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Services team at Mastercard is seeking a Creative Project Manager to oversee the delivery of creative projects for clients. The ideal candidate will have a passion for business growth, a creative flair, and excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

- Own the day-to-day management of creative projects from brief to delivery, ensuring timelines, scope, and quality standards are met.

- Track and manage project budgets, timelines, and resourcing plans, escalating issues proactively to senior leads.

- Lead client communication on project-level matters, responding to requests and maintaining clarity on deliverables and timelines.

- Develop and manage creative project briefs, translating client needs into clear direction for creative teams.

- Coordinate across creative, strategy, and production teams to drive delivery and maintain momentum.

- Work closely with creative leads and senior project managers to stay aligned on priorities.

- Monitor project progress, manage dependencies, and flag risks early to keep work on track.

- Run multiple projects in parallel, operating confidently in a fast-paced agency environment.

- Prepare and deliver regular project status updates and reporting for internal stakeholders and clients.

- Champion strong organizational practices and effective use of project management tools across the team.

Requirements:

- Minimum 8 years of experience in creative services, account, or project management roles, ideally at Account director level, within advertising or creative agencies.

- Proven ability to manage complex projects end-to-end, with strong organizational and multitasking skills.

- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams across creative, strategy, and production.

- Confident in briefing creative teams and maintaining clear project direction from kick-off through delivery.

- Comfortable managing client relationships at a day-to-day level with professionalism and clarity.

- Able to work independently, problem-solve on the fly, and perform well under pressure.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

- Willingness to travel as required.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- creative project management
- client communication
- budget tracking
- resource planning
- stakeholder management
- communication skills
- organizational skills
- multitasking skills
- English

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