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Jordan Morehouse

Milwaukee,USA

Summary

Results driven project manager with over 10 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and executing high-impact marketing and creative campaigns. Adept at optimizing workflows, driving business growth, and delivering measurable outcomes. Proven track record of process automation, campaign success, and stakeholder collaboration across B2B and B2C environments.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Global Project Manager

ManpowerGroup
Milwaukee, WI
09.2024 - Current
  • Coordinated resources across multiple departments for successful completion of projects.
  • Identified project needs by reviewing project objectives and schedules.
  • Maintained effective communication channels between all stakeholders involved in a given project.
  • Developed and updated project plans to document objectives, technologies, schedules, and funding.
  • Managed relationships with external partners such as customers, suppliers, contractors for successful execution of all tasks associated with a particular project.
  • Created, maintained and tracked project budgets, schedules, milestones and deliverables.
  • Conducted regular reviews with clients to ensure that their needs were being met throughout the course of each project.
  • Identified potential risks within the scope of the project and proposed mitigation strategies accordingly.
  • Developed and implemented project plans to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of projects.

Senior Business Project Manager

Northwestern Mutual
Milwaukee, WI
01.2022 - 03.2024
  • Independently lead highly complex departmental projects and/or participate in cross-departmental projects with responsibility for managing scope, risk, business value, schedule, and budget
  • Collaborated with A&I team on a daily basis to manage current sprint, backlog, sprint reviews, retrospective and sprint and release planning; collaborated closely with the product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized
  • Responsible for developing, maintaining, and revising project deliverables; responsible for gathering and delivering metrics as required by the project
  • Identified alternative options in the development and enhancements for new policies and processes; acted as subject matter expert (SME) to build out new processes and systems that helped realize efficiencies and cost savings for the department
  • Lead automation efforts for the department by partnering with the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) team and business analysts to identify automation opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs and mitigate risks

Creative Project Manager

Core Creative
Milwaukee, WI
07.2021 - 01.2022
  • Oversee all aspects of the creative process: briefing, creative development, reviews, approvals, and execution
  • Demonstrated success with managing, leading, and driving cross functional processes
  • Assists in project risk assessment and forecasts of creative resources; coach teams on agile practices; report status and raise issues during weekly and bi-weekly cross-functional client meetings and team meetings
  • Collaborates to build strong working relationships with our client (Milwaukee Tool) and the creative department at Core; Liaise with the client to ensure the successful management of the project and ensure the client’s expectations are met

Creative Project Manager

Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
Milwaukee, WI
02.2019 - 07.2020
  • Created, maintained, and routed formal project documentation to project teams and key stakeholders; elevated and managed expectations, project barriers and roadblocks to all stakeholder’s up front to ensure deadlines were attained
  • Facilitated meetings with key leaders and collaborated with project teams to ensure timely decision-making and effective communication between projects stakeholders at all levels; recorded project details such as task progress, resource costs, and allotted budgets to analyze performance, generate performance reports for key leaders and implement corrective measures
  • Partnered with creative leads to plan, implement and keep projects on track and in scope; strategized with Art Directors and internal clients to develop marketing strategies in support of planned events and model year/mid-model year launches; communicated strategies to the organization and provided clear direction to all stakeholders
  • Managed 5+ client accounts as point of contact to develop individualized strategic approaches while preserving brand integrity
  • Lead a cross-functional team in the creation and implementation of P&A retail packaging development processes and brand standards, ensuring consistency in production, governance, and delivery of final packaging assets; this included working closely with the Packaging Lead and Packaging Production Artist to manage the creation of display packaging artwork and insure it is in accordance with P&A packaging brand standards

Marketing Project Manager

The Bon-ton Stores
Milwaukee, WI
03.2016 - 07.2018
  • Managed and provided direction for omni-channel marketing campaigns for two divisions that generated sales of $450 million annually, or 23% of total company
  • Managed and deployed profitable multi-channel marketing campaigns with a $9M annual budget
  • Helped implement and rollout new advertising procedures and processes to improve workflow and streamline work processes
  • Tracked, analyzed, and reported on historical and current sales (this included WTD, MTD, QTD YTD sales; gross margin, inventory turnover, etc.), promotional activity, event sales, and print/digital marketing – reported my findings and analysis to the Senior Vice President on a daily basis, which in turn was distributed company-wide
  • Analyzed and used market research and competitive analysis to integrate marketing strategies and assess the efficacy of marketing programs; collaborated with vendors to brainstorm new marketing strategies and opportunities to increase seasonal sales performance
  • Acted as primary liaison between all stakeholders, including marketing, merchandising, e-commerce, digital and our vendor partners, to prioritize and successfully execute multi-channel marketing campaigns for my teams

Assistant Buyer

The Bon-ton Stores
Milwaukee, WI
02.2015 - 03.2016
  • Analyzed in-season style selling, financial and inventory performance to identify and interpret trends and make recommendations to maximize future performance
  • Determined strategy for events including promotional offers and pricing cadence to achieve financial plans
  • Created advertising offers for corporate marketing by forecasting event sales and inventory prep units; reviewed all offers with the Divisional Vice President on a weekly basis

Education

BBA - Human Resource Management

University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Whitewater, WI
12.2012

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Creative Project Management
  • Campaign Management
  • B2B/B2C Marketing
  • Brand & Product Marketing
  • Scope management
  • Cross-functional coordination
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Jira/Asana/Trello/Birdview

Timeline

Global Project Manager

ManpowerGroup
09.2024 - Current

Senior Business Project Manager

Northwestern Mutual
01.2022 - 03.2024

Creative Project Manager

Core Creative
07.2021 - 01.2022

Creative Project Manager

Harley-Davidson Motor Co.
02.2019 - 07.2020

Marketing Project Manager

The Bon-ton Stores
03.2016 - 07.2018

Assistant Buyer

The Bon-ton Stores
02.2015 - 03.2016

BBA - Human Resource Management

University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Jordan Morehouse