Senior Project Manager - Marketing Creative Services
About The Position
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for planning and overseeing workflow for Marketing and Communications project portfolios. They will plan and designate project resources, monitor progress, and keep stakeholders informed during the process of all projects for assigned Relationship or Marketing Managers. This role involves managing a team of Traffic Managers, creating cross-functional project timelines, and ensuring project objectives are met by coordinating information between stakeholders. The Senior Project Manager will also work closely with the Account Director to achieve project goals while controlling resources, risks, and dependencies, and will utilize WorkFront for data-driven reporting. Leading weekly status meetings and anticipating capacity challenges are key aspects of this position.
Requirements
- Degree in Marketing, Communications, Project Management or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience with project management in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
- Proficient in handling issues around team supervision, resource management, technology and workflow processes
- Ability to communicate effectively and courteously with internal team members and internal clients
- Two (2) years experience working with project and content management tools for cross functional project management and report development, preferably in WorkFront
- Knowledge of project management processes, workflow and terminology
- One (1) year experience managing direct reports
- Five (5) years project management experience in an advertising/marketing agency or on in-house marketing team
Responsibilities
- Managing a team of Traffic Managers who are responsible for an assigned portfolio of clients.
- Working with Relationship or Marketing Managers to create cross-functional project timelines and resource plans.
- Assigning projects and communicating details to a Traffic Manager for daily management of the project.
- Coordinating and facilitating information between project stakeholders to ensure project objectives are advancing successfully.
- Managing progress and accountability of assigned Marcom team members.
- Working closely with the Account Director to achieve project goals while controlling resources, risks, cross-project dependencies, conflicts, deployment dates and reporting/data pulling for assigned area(s).
- Utilizing departmental processes and objectives to develop and monitor data-driven reports in Work Front.
- Leading weekly status meetings with assigned Relationship or Marketing Managers including a calendar review and updates on deliverables for current projects and campaigns.
- Anticipating capacity challenges, escalating concerns to management, negotiating tradeoffs to ensure project completion and balancing project requests versus capacity constraints.
- Collaborating with area leads to assign correct resources to projects.
- Other work duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
