Senior Marketing Project Manager

Global Payment Holding Company•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Senior Marketing Project Manager manages large-scale, complex projects or initiatives from initiation through delivery, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. The role designs and communicates operational plans, monitors progress and performance, resolves or escalates issues, analyzes project requirements, and coordinates resources to meet project goals and milestones. It serves as a liaison across organizational areas and stakeholders, conducts project meetings, and prepares status reports for project teams and leadership. The role typically manages projects spanning multiple business segments and corporate shared services, and may collaborate across the enterprise, with external stakeholders, or with third-party vendors. Projects can involve new products or solutions, complex customizations or modifications, and solutions for new countries or locations. The Senior Marketing Project Manager monitors scope, time, and cost; anticipates and resolves issues; manages stakeholder conflict and scope changes; and may escalate matters to senior or executive leadership. Responsibilities also include project sizing and estimation, budget tracking and reporting, billing performance, forecasting support, and identifying opportunities to improve revenue or delivery costs. The role makes project-level decisions, collaborates with Legal, Procurement, and Finance on budgeting and contractual matters, and mentors less experienced project managers and team members.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent training and/or work experience in lieu of a degree.
Typically a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
Deep and broad industry knowledge sufficient to manage projects, anticipate issues, and adapt deliverables as time, resources, and scope change.
Deep and broad expertise in project management methodologies.
Deep and broad knowledge of clients’ internal or external businesses.
Experience resolving complex issues using professional concepts and company objectives.
Ability to analyze complex situations or data, evaluate variable factors, and exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.
Ability to network with key contacts outside one’s area of expertise.
Ability to determine methods and procedures for new assignments and potentially coordinate other personnel.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in any field.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Manage large-scale, complex projects or initiatives from initiation through delivery, ensuring completion on time, within budget, and to quality standards.
Design, communicate, and implement operational plans; monitor progress and performance against project plans.
Analyze project requirements and identify cost estimates, resources, and timelines needed to complete projects.
Identify, resolve, anticipate, and escalate project issues; collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders to bring issues to resolution.
Serve as a liaison across organizational areas to secure specialized resources and contributions.
Conduct project meetings and prepare regular project status reports for project teams and stakeholders, including senior or executive leadership when needed.
Work with stakeholders to establish priorities, allocate tasks, coordinate project staff, and meet project targets and milestones.
Manage projects spanning multiple business segments, corporate shared services, enterprise teams, external stakeholders, and third-party vendors as applicable.
Manage projects involving new products or solutions, complex customizations, application enhancements, complex modifications, or solutions for new countries or locations.
Monitor project time, scope, and cost against identified requirements; manage feasibility analysis and complex scope changes.
Gather project sizing information, ensure projects are accurately estimated and timely billed, and monitor budgets and billing performance.
Complete and review monthly project reports and provide feedback and recommendations regarding project budgets.
Identify opportunities to increase project revenue through value-added services and lower delivery costs by optimizing team productivity.
Contribute to annual budget forecasting and support quarterly re-forecasting; manage and monitor project budgets as applicable.
Make project delivery decisions outside established processes where authorized and influence team decision-making.
Collaborate with Legal, Procurement, and Finance on budgeting, contractual responsibilities, and related impacts.
Mentor and guide less experienced project managers and team members in project planning, financial responsibilities, and decision-making.