Senior Project Manager (Brand Production & Logistics)
Lihnitech Solutions
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**Company Description:**
Lihnitech helps startups and scale-ups build high-performing teams. We connect ambitious companies with exceptional talent, enabling them to grow faster and smarter.
Our client, Socially Powerful, is a global social media and influencer marketing agency working with some of the biggest brands in Food & Beverage, Fashion, Gaming, and Digital Banking. They develop and execute influencer strategies that make a real impact, while the operations team ensures everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
**Kindly note:**
This role is all about creative marketing production, project management, custom brand packaging, and campaign logistics! If your background is in creative agencies, branded merchandise, experiential marketing, or creative-led brand operations, you’ll feel right at home. This position isn't a fit for traditional factory floor, industrial plant, or warehouse facility management experience.
**About the Role:**
We’re looking for a sharp, proactive
**Senior Project Manager**
(Brand Production & Logistics) to serve as the operational backbone for some of our highest-profile brands. Taking full ownership of the end-to-end production workstream with minimal supervision, you will bridge big creative influencer concepts with flawless physical execution - overseeing custom packaging, high-tier seeding boxes, and global logistics.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- **Bespoke Packaging & Production:**
Drive end-to-end custom packaging manufacturing. Lead supplier sourcing, quoting, procurement, prototyping, quality control, and production schedules across all builds.
- **Vendor Management & Negotiation:**
Source, vet, and manage top-tier production partners. Leverage industry contacts to negotiate competitive pricing, favorable terms, and high-quality output.
- **Budget Ownership & Financial Control:**
Take full ownership of production budgets. Track project costs, issue purchase orders, and lead invoice reconciliation to ensure fiscal discipline.
- **Workbacks & Critical Path Management:**
Own detailed production workbacks and critical path schedules. Proactively spot supply chain risks and execute mitigation strategies to hit tight deadlines.
- **End-to-End Logistics & Freight:**
Oversee inventory, packing, shipping, and final delivery. Resolve customs or courier delays and coordinate seamlessly with US-based and global suppliers.
- **Inventory & Systems Optimization:**
Manage raw materials and finished goods inventory. Refine internal tracking systems to keep logistics data accurate and centralized.
- **Analytics & Performance Reporting:**
Analyze freight efficiency and production costs to report key operational insights to leadership.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration:**
Lead clear communication across creative, account, operational, and vendor teams. Provide operational support during lower-volume periods.
**Required skills and experience:**
- **Experience:**
4+ years of proven production, logistics, or operations management experience (agency, experiential marketing, e-commerce, or branded merchandise background preferred).
- **High-Level Ownership:**
Proven ability to lead operational workstreams independently and with minimal supervision, driving projects from brief through final distribution.
- **Financial & Project Management Rigor:**
Proven experience managing significant production budgets, executing cost-tracking protocols, and handling invoice reconciliation.
- **Technical Proficiency:**
Highly skilled with project management platforms, logistics tracking systems, and generating analytical production reports.
- **Mindset:**
An authoritative problem-solver with strong communication skills who thrives in dynamic environments and adapts flexibly across varying campaign cycles.
Lihnitech helps startups and scale-ups build high-performing teams. We connect ambitious companies with exceptional talent, enabling them to grow faster and smarter.
Our client, Socially Powerful, is a global social media and influencer marketing agency working with some of the biggest brands in Food & Beverage, Fashion, Gaming, and Digital Banking. They develop and execute influencer strategies that make a real impact, while the operations team ensures everything runs smoothly behind the scenes.
**Kindly note:**
This role is all about creative marketing production, project management, custom brand packaging, and campaign logistics! If your background is in creative agencies, branded merchandise, experiential marketing, or creative-led brand operations, you’ll feel right at home. This position isn't a fit for traditional factory floor, industrial plant, or warehouse facility management experience.
**About the Role:**
We’re looking for a sharp, proactive
**Senior Project Manager**
(Brand Production & Logistics) to serve as the operational backbone for some of our highest-profile brands. Taking full ownership of the end-to-end production workstream with minimal supervision, you will bridge big creative influencer concepts with flawless physical execution - overseeing custom packaging, high-tier seeding boxes, and global logistics.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- **Bespoke Packaging & Production:**
Drive end-to-end custom packaging manufacturing. Lead supplier sourcing, quoting, procurement, prototyping, quality control, and production schedules across all builds.
- **Vendor Management & Negotiation:**
Source, vet, and manage top-tier production partners. Leverage industry contacts to negotiate competitive pricing, favorable terms, and high-quality output.
- **Budget Ownership & Financial Control:**
Take full ownership of production budgets. Track project costs, issue purchase orders, and lead invoice reconciliation to ensure fiscal discipline.
- **Workbacks & Critical Path Management:**
Own detailed production workbacks and critical path schedules. Proactively spot supply chain risks and execute mitigation strategies to hit tight deadlines.
- **End-to-End Logistics & Freight:**
Oversee inventory, packing, shipping, and final delivery. Resolve customs or courier delays and coordinate seamlessly with US-based and global suppliers.
- **Inventory & Systems Optimization:**
Manage raw materials and finished goods inventory. Refine internal tracking systems to keep logistics data accurate and centralized.
- **Analytics & Performance Reporting:**
Analyze freight efficiency and production costs to report key operational insights to leadership.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration:**
Lead clear communication across creative, account, operational, and vendor teams. Provide operational support during lower-volume periods.
**Required skills and experience:**
- **Experience:**
4+ years of proven production, logistics, or operations management experience (agency, experiential marketing, e-commerce, or branded merchandise background preferred).
- **High-Level Ownership:**
Proven ability to lead operational workstreams independently and with minimal supervision, driving projects from brief through final distribution.
- **Financial & Project Management Rigor:**
Proven experience managing significant production budgets, executing cost-tracking protocols, and handling invoice reconciliation.
- **Technical Proficiency:**
Highly skilled with project management platforms, logistics tracking systems, and generating analytical production reports.
- **Mindset:**
An authoritative problem-solver with strong communication skills who thrives in dynamic environments and adapts flexibly across varying campaign cycles.
