Associate Director, Project Management

PUBLICIS GROUPE • New York, NY

54d

About The Position

Our Project Management team enables and executes great work in the smartest way possible. We are passionate about transforming ideas into results as we constantly negotiate, organize and understand the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and technology. To help with this, we're looking for an outstanding Associate Director in Project Management - an integration expert with a passion for using collaboration to drive cohesion across both creative and media planning cycles, striving for flawless execution of brand and performance media campaigns. And we achieve this by establishing integrated connection points by way of campaign timelines, workflows and process documents, driving seamless execution of plans from conception to completion. Our project work includes integrated management of planning and executional phases across digital and social media campaigns, digital partnership activations and promotions across external creative teams and 3rd party publishers and delivering operational excellence through day-to-day task management to deliver unparalleled value for both internal and client teams. As an Associate Director, you will help develop and execute project plans that allow our teams to create exciting work, as well as help identify connection points across large programs of work to deliver on a holistic approach for client needs. To succeed, you will act as a connected thread across media and creative teams, strive to be proactive, have a passion for media planning and execution, maintain a deep project management toolkit and exercise excellent communication skills. Sound like you? Read on.

Requirements

• A four-year degree
• 6-8 years' experience in Project Management in an agency setting (creative or media)
• Mastery of mid to large-level projects and programs
• Working knowledge of enterprise tools (JIRA, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Slack, Trello)
• Demonstrate grit and extreme ownership
• Exude positivity
• Aren't afraid to share your ideas
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities
• Are self-reliant and motivated
• Communicate fearlessly

Responsibilities

• Understand client priorities and define deliverables that project will be monitored and controlled against
• Have a deep knowledge of the SOW to evaluate projects, assess available resources and develop project plan timeline and workflow to deliver on client needs
• In collaboration with Staffing team, develop staff plan identifying resource and allocation percentages
• Manage ongoing forecasting and resource allocation throughout project lifecycle
• Establish Roles and Responsibilities across internal capabilities as well as client stakeholders
• Creation of high-level planning timelines, in-depth tactical plans (road maps)
• The project schedule should act as master schedule, reflecting the work of all teams associated with delivering the project on time
• Provide on-going project status tracking to ensure all deadlines and deliverables meet client satisfaction
• Ownership of statuses, communication channels, meeting recaps, and tools/services to deliver project needs
• Coordination of schedules and facilitation of various internal and external meetings inclusive of capability and client teams
• Capture actionable next steps, send out recaps and follow-up on next steps
• Responsible for the collection, gathering and distributing of consolidated information, to ensure all stakeholders are up to date on project status and progress
• Management of asset creation and trafficking
• Ensure final deliverables are QCed prior to delivery against necessary specs, formats, etc
• Collect specs from clients and 3rd party vendors/publishers to ensure final delivery is in proper format
• Provide on-going project status tracking to ensure all deadlines and deliverables meet client satisfaction
• Archive assets into repository once completed and trafficked to appropriate teams
• Identify and outline possible risks and mitigation strategies
• Communicate risks to project team as soon as identified
• Acting as liaison with creative AOR, PR agency, etc.

Benefits

• Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.
• Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees