About us: Stanley 1913 - Built for Life® since 1913.
The Stanley 1913 brand has fueled the human experience since the iconic Stanley vacuum bottle revolutionized the way people enjoyed food and beverage. Today, our colorful and thoughtfully designed products including the popular Quencher ™ series go beyond function, elevating everyday moments with style and empowering active lifestyles. We’re a community of creators, builders , and inventors who believe in creating sustainable products for a better life and world that minimiz e s our impact on the planet. Learn more at www.stanley1913.com .
Position Overview
The Stanley 1913 brand is seeking a Sr. Manager, Creative Operations to join the Global Marketing Operations team and lead the processes, planning, and day-to-day coordination that enable our Global Creative organization to deliver impactful and consistent creative.
This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for both building creative operating processes and managing their daily execution. The Sr. Manager will run creative request intake, maintain resource plans, and directly manage priority creative workstreams from kickoff and scheduling through reviews, approvals, and delivery.
Partnering closely with Creative leadership, Campaign Operations, Marketing Operations, and regional marketing teams, this person will bring clarity to priorities, improve insight into capacity, and help teams navigate competing demands.
The ideal candidate combines operational thinking with strong project management skills. They are comfortable building a process, running the meeting, updating the schedule, following up on feedback, and resolving the details that keep creative work moving. They bring curiosity about technology and practical experience using tools and automation to improve how teams work.
What You'll Do
Creative Operations & Process Improvement
Own and evolve core creative workflows, establishing clear roles, handoffs, review checkpoints, and expectations.
Lead creative standups and workflow reviews, maintaining actionable schedules, status updates, and follow-ups.
Identify recurring workflow challenges and implement practical improvements, sequencing process development alongside delivery needs.
Maintain clear process documentation and use measures such as turnaround times, review cycles, and on-time delivery to assess effectiveness.
Identify and implement opportunities to use Asana, AI tools, and automation to reduce manual work, improve visibility, and strengthen creative workflows.
Pilot practical tools and new ways of working, assess their impact, and support team adoption in alignment with company technology and data policies.
Team Leadership & Digital Creative Workflows
Directly manage and develop the Digital Creative Production Coordinator, setting clear goals, providing regular feedback, and supporting professional growth.
Support the Coordinator’s day-to-day ownership of Web, Email, and Paid Media creative workflows, providing guidance on priorities, dependencies, and critical issues.
Partner with the Coordinator, Creative leadership, and channel teams to build and evolve processes for digital creative requests, development, reviews, and delivery.
Integrate digital workstream demand into the broader creative resource plan, ensuring insight into shared resources and helping resolve competing needs across projects.
Build on established channel relationships and workflows to improve coordination and consistency across the creative team.
Creative Request Intake & Prioritization
Run the creative request intake process, ensuring requests include clear objectives, scope, deliverables, timing, and partner input.
Assess brief readiness and resource needs, working with requesting teams to resolve gaps before creative development begins.
Maintain a consolidated view of incoming, active, and upcoming work.
Recommend priorities and sequencing based on business needs and available capacity, partnering with Creative leadership…