Associate Project Manager, Communications

Simpson Strong-Tie•Plano, TX

8d•Remote

About The Position

As the Associate Project Manager, you will manage various communications projects within the marketing department. You will be an integral part of the communications team with oversight and organization of promotional activity among all media channels. You’ll need to have a general understanding of how print and digital marketing ads are produced and promoted as well as how public relations, social media, blog articles, emails and webinars contribute to amplifying a product, campaign or brand message. Your advertising and project management experience will help to facilitate more efficient processes and foster improved collaboration between the communications team and our other departmental teams to ensure project success.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Marketing, Communications or related field preferred.
1-3 years of experience in project management.
2 years of experience in advertising and promotions including programmatic and display advertising, SEO, social media and major search engines.
1-2 years of experience using project management and communications tools such as Asana, Smartsheet, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and/or inMotion.
1-2 years of experience using Salesforce, Pardot or other CRM software.
Project Management: Strong project management or organizational skills. Ability to track progress and complete projects on time and within budget.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and group situations. Ability to write in a clear, concise and organized manner for the intended audience.
Adaptability & Flexibility: Ability to think and act effectively under pressure. Ability to deal with urgent and/or changing deadlines and adjust approach in response to the demands of the situation.
Attention to Detail: Possess strong organization and prioritization skills. Ability to complete tasks with thoroughness and accuracy.
Accountability: Ability to fulfill all commitments made to peers, coworkers and supervisor.
Self-Management: Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
Teamwork: Ability to build and sustain cooperative working relationships and work collaboratively with others within the department and across functions.
Proactivity: Ability to identify what needs to be done and take action while maintaining a positive attitude.
Decision Making & Judgment: Ability to think objectively and act quickly. Ability to explain the rationale for a decision.
Analysis/Reasoning: Ability to collect and analyze data.
Budgeting and Forecasting: Ability to forecast, create, manage and report on marketing budgets.
Computer Skills: Must possess intermediate skills in the use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Nice To Haves

Personal interest, knowledge or experience in the construction industry or Do-it-Yourself (DIY) home improvement activities preferred, not required.

Responsibilities

Project manage promotional campaigns from inception to completion by collaborating with internal stakeholders and project leads to identify requirements, determine project scope and deliverables, set priorities, and establish milestones. From there you’ll develop project plans, budget estimates and schedules/dashboards. Much of your time will be orchestrating promotional activities and deliverables between internal teams, vendors and internal stakeholders through accurately tracking and communicating status, progress and financials.
Working closely with the digital ad agency you’ll coordinate the integration of brand assets and marketing content within numerous concurrent projects for programmatic ad campaigns. You’ll be insightful and give actionable suggestions for improving digital campaign performance. To be successful, you will partner seamlessly with senior managers and product marketing managers to meet their promotional goals and expectations. By utilizing your exceptional organizational skills, you will be contributing to each project’s strategic vision and will take ownership in the quality and complexity of each campaign’s promotional execution success.
Work closely with the digital team to identify processes, tools and systems that improve cross collaboration, reporting, sales leads and SEO. Analytically-minded, you’ll make insights from metrics that help improve our social/digital strategy in order to improve promotional campaigns. You’ll also assist in producing bi-annual metrics reports for all business lines.
Administrative tasks as needed to help accelerate project outcomes, including data entry, budget updates and research to assist the completion of various projects and marketing plans. You’ll also occasionally create PowerPoint presentations and other marketing documents. Other miscellaneous duties as assigned.