Kayla Meininger

Team Leadership & People Management

• Led and mentored cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and accountability.

Project & Timeline Management

• Managed multiple high-priority projects, ensuring on-time delivery while meeting client and regulatory expectations.
• Developed detailed plans, tracked milestones, and identified risks to keep project financials on track.

Complex Project Management

• Led a large-scale project, ensuring alignment with brand strategy, brief, compliance, and timelines.
• Managed budgets, cost estimation, and delivered projects within scope and budget.

Financial Management

• Managed project budgets, performed forecasting, and maintained financial accountability.
• Worked with the finance team for accurate invoicing, and helped my manager work through reconciliation.

Resource Management

• Participated in resourcing calls to ensure proper team coverage and skill alignment for projects.
• Addressed resourcing gaps proactively to avoid delays.

Problem Solving & Course Correction

• Quickly identified risks, and course-corrected to stay on track with project timelines.
• Developed creative solutions to overcome challenges without compromising quality.

Continuous improvement

• Implemented process improvements to increase efficiency and streamline workflows

Team Coordination & Support

• Assisted in managing cross-functional teams, ensuring smooth communication and task progress.

Project & Timeline Tracking

• Supported project planning by tracking deliverables, and ensuring projects stayed on schedule.

Project Execution

• Helped execute small to medium-scale projects, ensuring alignment with client goals and regulatory standards.

Financial Support

• Tracked project expenses, assisted with budgeting, and provided inputs such as project burn, project completion, and any necessary budget updates.

Project Communication

• Responsible for leading the hot sheet, weekly statuses, internal creative reviews, and meetings with external vendors.

Project Management

• Led projects from concept to delivery, ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Budget & Forecasting

• Managed and created budgets, and tracked project burn.
• Created and helped manage scopes.

Timeline & Scheduling

• Forecasted and monitored project timelines, and ensured that there were various internal touch points throughout the project lifecycle.

Risk Management

• Identified risks to develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success

Team Leadership

• Assigned tasks, mentored junior staff, and optimized workflow.

Team Leadership & Coordination

• Led cross-functional teams (creative, development, production, editorial) to ensure timely and on-budget project delivery.
• Managed print and digital projects (sales aids, brochures, banners, emails, e-detailers, and websites).
• Collaborated with account and functional leads to define project scope, timelines, and budget based on business, user, regulatory, and functional needs.

Project Planning & Execution

• Defined project timelines, budgets, deliverables, and milestones; allocated resources efficiently.
• Maintained regular communication with teams and clients to provide status updates and internal reports.

Production & Process Management

• Advocated for production processes, and ensured teams adhered to best practices during execution.
• Managed project lifecycle for digital and print projects, from concept to completion.