Senior Project Manager – Marketing Creative Services

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing a team of Traffic Managers who are responsible for an assigned portfolio of clients.
• Work with Relationship or Marketing Managers to create cross-functional project timelines and resource plans. Then assign project and communicate details to a Traffic Manager for daily management of project.
• Responsible for the coordination and facilitation of information between project stakeholders in order to ensure project objectives are advancing successfully; manages progress and accountability of assigned Marcom team members.
• Work 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).
• Utilize departmental processes and objectives to develop and monitor data-driven reports in Work Front.
• Lead weekly status meetings with assigned Relationship or Marketing Managers including a calendar review and updates on deliverables for current projects and campaigns.
• Anticipate capacity challenges, elevate concerns to management, negotiate tradeoffs to ensure project completion and balance project requests versus capacity constraints.
• Collaborate with area leads to assign correct resources to projects.
• Other work duties as assigned

• 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 Work Front
• 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

• Project Management
• Resource Management
• Report Development
• Workflow Processes
• Project Management Processes

• Effective Communication
• Team Leadership
• Problem Solving