Marketing Project Manager

The National Fire Protection Association's mission is to help save lives and reduce loss with information, knowledge, and passion. Established in 1896, we are dedicated to the elimination of death, injury, and property and economic loss due to fire, electrical, and related hazards. The Association delivers information and knowledge through more than 300 consensus codes and standards, research, training, education, outreach and advocacy;

and by partnering with others who share an interest in furthering the NFPA mission.

To better meet the needs of those who rely on our information and knowledge to keep people and property safe, we are amidst a transformation to expand our influence and further our safety mission. We are becoming increasingly digital and global to grow, thrive, and save more lives from fire, electrical, and other hazards. To accomplish this, we need effective leaders at all levels of the Association who understand what we are striving for, why it is important, and how to execute our vision and who passionately want to see NFPA through this important stage.

It is an exciting and empowering time to work at NFPA.

This role contributes to NFPA's Mission, Vision, and Strategic initiatives developing plans and overseeing Marketing projects across a broad spectrum of disciplines. As a Project Manager, you will work closely with internal stakeholders to develop project deliverables and meet overall goals within set budgets and timelines. You will communicate and collaborate cross-departmentally to ensure that our projects align and support company objectives and milestones.

You must possess excellent communication skills and make judgments based on experience. The ideal candidate will be excited to roll up their sleeves and help support a dynamic and diverse group of marketing professionals. The Project Manager plays a substantial role in the success of NFPA Marketing projects and the team.

• Provide high-level support and project planning including project initiation, development, testing, deployment, optimizations, and retrospectives to the marketing team projects and campaigns.
• Organizes project meetings including daily scrums, status documents, sprint planning, and backlog refinement for Marketing Team as requested.
• Tracks progress against milestones, budgetary guidelines, and other key performance indicators and, as needed, prepares reports to senior management and divisional leads.
• Informs strategic planning and enhancing overall marketing process, technology, and workflow.
• Assesses team capacities and bandwidth and reprioritizes projects and tasks for all project members, with input from the Senior Manager, Marketing.
• Identifies, documents, and provides recommendations to the team in the management, mitigation, and resolution of project, and team-related issues, dependencies, and risks as needed.
• Route projects through technical, proofing and legal approvals.
• Understands and applies critical thinking to existing and new marketing systems, software, and processes.
• On occasion lead and plan organization-wide projects and enhancements, including project initiation, development, deployment, optimizations and communications. i.e. Related to Project Management and process improvements.

• Assists in routing contracts and agency SOW to legal, business owner and final approver. Maintains contract records with agency/third parties and management of all SOW regarding external consultants, vendors and/or agencies. Assists in agency selection, when applicable, review and maintenance of SOW.
• Produces and maintains overall marketing budget with senior management and divisional lead including managing day to day budget, tracking spending trends from third parties, and processing invoices for payment.
• Informs strategic budget planning along with other Sr. Managers, and Management.

• Creates, manages, and distributes project communications artifacts like plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Collaborates with the project team, third-party resources, and divisional business groups.
• Provides feedback, recommendations,…