Job Description
Our client is currently seeking a Creative Project Manager - III / Project Manager C
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Title: Creative Project Manager - III / Project Manager Consumer & Local PMO (W2) Location: New York, NY (HYBRID) Duration: Long Term Contract Responsibilities
Targeted Years of Experience: 5-7 years
JOB TITLE:
MUST HAVE SKILLS (Most Important):
- Prioritize and manage the workflow of multiple projects through a line business.
- Ability to craft thoughtful and custom projects plans and timelines.
- Manage and track scope and hours for efficiency reporting across a line of business.
- Communicate priorities, risk and solutions to senior-level internal stakeholders.
- Partner with the marketings & strategy leads and Creative Directors to lead and direct teams on brief development, paths forward, problem solving and prioritizations.
- Encourages a collaborative approach with departmental team members.
- Partners with outside agencies in managing clients
- promotional and marketing efforts.
- Evaluates creative briefs on complex projects and interprets them for project teams in order to lead communication strategies and implement marketing efforts.
- Collaborates on creative development and direction with marketing, design, agency and production teams.
- Provides feedback to project team during internal creative reviews.
- Presents concepts to clients, obtains feedback and translates that feedback for the project team.
- Reviews change requests and responds with schedule/cost impacts along with alternatives.
- Manages expectations with departmental teams; Negotiates timelines and budgets and ensures that all deadlines are maintained.
- Leverages knowledge and understanding of strategy, business needs, design, creative and production to facilitate effective communication between all departmental teams.
- Six or more years of professional level experience in a project management role either in an external or internal advertising agency.
- Successful track record at client service in a marketing or creative environment.
DESIRED SKILLS:
- Experience managing budgets in excess of $2.5mm.
- Project management experience preferably including print, retail, direct marketing campaigns, digital, promotions, TV, and radio.
- Strong knowledge of the benefits of the above communication channels, with the ability to match the channel with the communication needs of the business.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, both through idea generation and assessment of ideas generated by others.
- Team player with excellent relationship building skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Adept at risk management. ? Resourceful and solution-oriented.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent creative project management skills, highly organized and ability to multitask effectively.
- Ability to gain trust and effectively manage expectations. ? Strong knowledge of the creative process as well as design and print/digital production.
- Ideally fluent in Spanish and English, but not required
- Experience with Workfront or similar project management software
JOB DUTIES:
The Consumer & Local PMO Project Manager (PM) is responsible for managing multiple projects across different lines of business for consumer & local programs. The PM is responsible for prioritizing projects, tracking and communicating scope, load balance planning for resources, and communicating status and risk to high-level internal stakeholders. The PM must exhibit outstanding project management and communication skills in achieving the highest possible standards when leading a project across numerous teams and groups. They need a basic knowledge of our business challenges to provide communications solutions and project management execution. The PM will also be expected to participate in creative development meetings to ensure final output is on mark. In addition, the PM will provide project management follow-through and accurate delivery.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, advertising or business or four or more years of work experience.
LOGISTICS: Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm. Hybrid work schedule with two days in office: Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Judge Group Inc.
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