Workfront Planning Specialist

Are you ready to revolutionize how a major national brand manages its critical initiatives? Aquent has partnered with a renowned national retail brand known for exceptional customer experiences and operational excellence to find a visionary professional who can make an immediate, transformative impact on their project management capabilities. In this hands-on, highly collaborative role, you will take ownership of optimizing a powerful platform to bring unparalleled clarity and efficiency to large-scale seasonal campaigns. Your work will directly enable leadership to gain instant, comprehensive insights into complex, multi-channel campaigns, making a massive impact on the brand's continued market leadership.

About the Opportunity

In this dynamic position, you won't just be advising; you'll be actively building, connecting, and empowering teams to ensure everything from digital content launches to product packaging kickoffs stays precisely on track. By architecting and implementing a robust planning hierarchy, you will bridge the gap between strategic goals and execution, helping cross-functional teams collaborate seamlessly. This is an incredible opportunity to drive change, empower teams, and see the tangible results of your expertise in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

What You'll Do

• Architect and implement a robust planning hierarchy within the project management platform, seamlessly connecting individual projects to overarching programs, strategic goals, and major seasonal and promotional campaigns.
• Integrate and precisely map over 400 active projects into the newly established structure, ensuring accurate data rollup and enhanced visibility across the organization.
• Design intuitive rollup views and dynamic dashboards that furnish leadership with clear, actionable insights into campaign status, highlighting projects that are on time, at risk, or delayed.
• Facilitate collaborative working sessions with cross-functional teams to establish consistent naming conventions, taxonomy, and record types for all assets, deliverables, and campaigns.
• Execute comprehensive backend configuration within the platform, including the setup of custom forms, record types, connected fields, and the underlying logic required to unify the entire system.
• Develop the strategic planning framework for the upcoming year, with forward-thinking considerations for future cycles, specifically accounting for long-lead workstreams such as packaging that extend beyond 53 weeks.
• Provide thorough, hands-on training to the team, clearly explaining the strategic rationale behind the system setup to ensure they can confidently maintain and replicate the system annually.
• Proactively identify opportunities where the team can further leverage the platform's capabilities and recommend immediate, high-impact improvements to drive efficiency and effectiveness.

What You Bring

• Extensive hands-on experience with Adobe Workfront, including deep knowledge of backend configuration and administrative functions.
• Direct experience with Workfront Planning or comparable large-scale project mapping and portfolio rollup initiatives.
• A proven track record of successfully building interconnected project structures across multiple teams and effectively managing hundreds of projects simultaneously.
• Strong proficiency in workflow and process mapping, with the ability to optimize complex operational flows.
• Exceptional ability to translate complex technical setups and processes into clear, understandable language for non-technical users.
• Comfort and capability in working quickly and independently within a highly motivated and fast-paced team environment.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Adobe Workfront certification (Core Developer, Program Architect, Fusion, or Planning).
• A background in retail, CPG, or marketing operations, particularly with experience managing seasonal or promotional calendars.
• Demonstrated experience presenting to leadership and effectively gathering cross-team feedback to drive consensus and improvement.