Creative Associate Project Manager

Job description

Mastercard's Marketing Services team is hiring a Creative Associate Project Manager in Dubai. The role supports the successful delivery of creative projects by coordinating timelines, resources and communication across creative, strategy and production teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day coordination of creative projects from brief to delivery.
• Maintain project plans, trackers, timelines, and documentation.
• Assist with scheduling meetings, preparing status updates, and following up on actions.
• Coordinate with creative, strategy, and production teams to ensure tasks progress according to plan.
• Help monitor project schedules, resource allocation, and deliverable deadlines.
• Support budget tracking, project forecasting, and reporting activities.
• Escalate risks, delays, or dependencies to Project Managers when identified.
• Maintain accurate records within project management and workflow tools.
• Help ensure compliance with ACD processes, templates, and governance standards.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to streamline project workflows.

Requirements

• 3-7 years of experience in project coordination, account coordination, marketing, creative services, or related roles.
• Strong organizational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive, collaborative, and eager to learn.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., Monday.com, Asana, Jira, Salesforce, or similar) is an advantage.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Willingness to support multiple projects and adapt to changing priorities.

Skills

• Budget tracking
• Creative project management
• Project coordination
• Stakeholder management
• Workflow tools