Quiksilver

COMPANY OVERVIEW: 

Boardriders, Inc., is the world’s leading action sports and lifestyle company that designs, produces and distributes branded apparel, footwear and accessories for Boardriders around the world. The Company’s apparel and footwear brands, represent a casual lifestyle for young‐minded people who are inspired by a passion for outdoor action sports. The Company’s Quiksilver, Billabong, Roxy, DC Shoes, RVCA, Element and VonZipper brands have authentic roots and heritage in surf, snow and skate. With approximately 10,000 team members globally, the Company’s products are sold in more than 110 countries in a wide range of distribution, including surf shops, skate shops, snow shops, its proprietary Boardriders stores and other Company‐owned retail stores, select department stores and through various e‐ commerce channels.

“Boardriders is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer including: Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans”

SUMMARY:

Reporting to our global digital and marketing operations director, DC is looking for a highly versatile project coordinator to join our global marketing team. This role will partner with our global marketing operations director and marketing brand leads to help traffic all seasonal marketing briefs. The Marketing Traffic Coordinator will help to own the marketing team core process calendar and project management tools to ensure the organization and timely management of all marketing deliverables and creative workflow. This role will help manage the in-take, routing and status updates for all marketing projects from both internal and external vendors. The main objective is to ensure that all marketing collateral and work flows efficiently to the creative department. They are responsible for keeping everyone on task and projects on deadline, handling the logistics and keeping all parties updated on the progress. Their responsibility is to make sure projects run smoothly and communicate with both the client and the creative team to help confirm that both parties are satisfied with the end result.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Help own project management tool and in-take of all marketing project briefs and requests
• Manage weekly creative WIP meetings and help manage creative team workflow
• Work to oversee and own marketing team core process and seasonal production calendars
• Create detailed workback schedules and set deadlines for various stages of a project
• Distribute assignments to creative teams and other departments, helping assess bandwidth and priorities
• Meet with clients to learn more about new project details and give progress updates on existing projects, communicating any issues
• Monitor projects and workloads, adjusting assignments and deadlines accordingly
• Work with freelancers and contractors and ensure they have the resources needed for their jobs
• Manage all key client relationships both internally and externally
• Manage project flow, calendars for the global marketing and creative team
• Account Executive for the internal global creative agency.
• Primary liaison to internal and external “clients” across discipline, region and channel and all marketing facets.

KEY PERFORMANCE MESSAURBALES:

• Successful meeting of deadlines and deliverables for the creative agency
• Successful implementation of communication and project management systems
• Successful adherence to budgets and timelines
• Effective communication with discipline, region, and channel
• Ongoing innovation supporting creative and marketing efficiency

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE/SKILLS/EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business, Communication or a related discipline
• Minimum 2 years' experience in Marketing, ideally within Project Management
• Proficiencies in Project Management Systems, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook essential
• Highly productive / multi-tasker / self-starter
• Exceptional communication skills: both verbal and written
• Organized
• Analytical
• Team-player