Project Manager, Brand Implementation
About The Position
The Project Manager, Interior Branding coordinates customer projects from planning through installation and closeout, ensuring each location is delivered in alignment with customer standards, budget, schedule, and quality expectations. The role is a central point of coordination across Account Management, Design, Production, vendors, installers, Accounting, and customers, helping move projects from concept to completion. The position manages multiple projects and locations at once, tracks milestones and financial performance, coordinates surveys and approvals, supports installation readiness, and provides clear, timely communication throughout the project lifecycle. Success requires strong organization, ownership, customer focus, and a safety-first approach when coordinating field activity, installation requirements, and vendor execution. The role is based full-time onsite in Stratus's Elmhurst, Illinois office. It primarily operates in a general office environment, with collaboration across customer, project, production, and field teams. Occasional interaction with production or installation environments may be required, where applicable safety procedures and personal protective equipment requirements must be followed.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects, locations, schedules, budgets, milestones, and competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with customers, vendors, installers, and cross-functional internal teams.
- Ability to read and understand basic floor plans, surveys, layouts, and project documentation.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and comfort working in ERP, project tracking, customer portal, and reporting systems.
- Strong organizational, problem-solving, and follow-through skills with high attention to detail.
- Ability to identify project risks, resolve issues proactively, and escalate concerns with clear recommendations when needed.
- Availability to support night or weekend installations or project escalations when business needs require.
- Commitment to safe project execution, including awareness of site conditions and installation risks and the importance of promptly escalating safety concerns.
Nice To Haves
- Three or more years of project management, program management, signage, interior branding, construction, or related experience.
- Experience in signage, branded environments, interior graphics, fixtures, or multi-location implementation programs.
Responsibilities
- Manage assigned Interior Branding projects from award through completion, including scope, schedule, budget, customer requirements, and key project milestones.
- Partner with Account Management to understand customer standards, program requirements, deliverables, and expectations for each awarded project.
- Coordinate preliminary surveys, site information, brand books, mockups, artwork approvals, fixture locations, and other project requirements with Design, Production, vendors, and customers.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, track open actions and dependencies, and proactively address risks or delays that could affect customer commitments.
- Coordinate approved vendors and installation partners, ensuring they have accurate scope, site requirements, materials, documentation, and timing needed for successful execution.
- Monitor project financial performance, including budgets, purchase orders, vendor costs, change activity, and invoicing readiness, and escalate variances when appropriate.
- Maintain clear and proactive communication with customers, field partners, Production, Design, Accounting, and internal stakeholders regarding project status, decisions, risks, and next steps.
- Review completion photos, punch-list items, customer deliverables, and closeout documentation to confirm work meets quality and project requirements before final turnover.
- Complete required project updates in client portals, ERP systems, reporting tools, and internal records, including information needed for Accounting and invoicing.
- Promote a safety-first approach by communicating site and installation requirements, escalating known hazards or unsafe conditions, and ensuring field partners understand applicable safety expectations.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Regular coaching, feedback, and mentorship to support growth
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Health Savings Accounts with employer contributions
- Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) with employer match
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Volunteer Time Off
- Paid parental leave
- Potential eligibility for bonus or incentive compensation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
