Senior Marketing Project Manager Job Toronto area,Ontario Canada,Marketing / Advertising / PR

Being a Marketing Project Manager = a herder of cats, a lover of deadlines, a juggler of multiple balls and organization skills to match Marie Kondo!

As Later’s Senior Marketing Project Manager, your role will be integral to ensuring success on large-scale, cross-functional marketing projects and ensuring smooth communication between various stakeholders.

You should feel comfortable working across teams and departments, be able to synthesize project requirements and assist with briefing within the team. You will be working alongside designers, copywriters, product marketers, ad strategists, and other marketing team members on a daily basis.

Some of your responsibilities will include revamping & reviewing briefs and processes, reviewing briefs for completeness prior to project kick-off, leading meetings and daily standups with teams, managing Asana tasks for projects, building project plans and updating project status reports and other documentation.

Ultimately, you will ensure projects are delivered on time, to budget and scope — in collaboration with marketing stakeholders.

What you'll be doing:

Strategy and Project Management

Understanding the scope of projects and how to phase deliverables accordingly

Knowing who key stakeholders are on the project (eg. who is responsible for what)

Review team deliverables to ensure they meet project briefs and marketing objectives

Managing Asana boards and any other project management system

Manage day-to-day progress of projects including risk assessment, check-ins, and problem resolution

Strategic prioritization (and re-prioritization) of tickets, including adjusting project plans based on changing business needs, reallocating resources, and communicating changes to stakeholders

Monitor updates and ensure an accurate feedback loop between copywriters, web designers, and developers to maintain up-to-date project materials, facilitating smoother operations and enhancing stakeholder satisfaction.

Be the go-to person for status updates on all live projects including regular reporting cadences

Communicate regularly with clear actions and updates

Manage Notion and ongoing information sharing

Facilitate the team’s dedication to Agile Project Management as the Scrumaster, including education, backlog grooming, refinement and retrospectives, as well as bi-weekly burndowns

Data & Measurement

Be one step ahead and pre-empt blockers, risks and challenges for the project

Flagging and communicating blockers early, with a solution-oriented approach

Collaborate with different departments when needed on budgets & freelancer management

Track, manage and optimize team velocity so that we can pivot and provide educated estimates for additional resourcing as needed

Resource Management

Flagging resource limitations across different teams when needed and preempting blockers to success

Control any scope creep that should arise

Be the polite nudge to keep people on track and working towards deadline

Experimentation & Optimization

Proactively look for process improvements and solutions to help get projects completed in a timely manner

Test new ways of working and new processes to streamline workflows

Be solutions-orientated with blockers

We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. If you identify with any of the following, we encourage you to apply!

Endlessly curious

5+ years experience in project management, including Agile/Scrumban

You have a bachelor’s degree – ideally in marketing, business, economics, or technical field

You care deeply about user experience and can build precise targeting as well as delightful, on-brand experiences

Strong results orientation, proven record performing to aggressive growth targets

Strong interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively within a cross-functional team and a variety of skill sets

Flexibility & ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Experience with project management and knowledge platforms (Asana, Notion)

Nice to Have:
Saas industry experience

Our approach to compensation:

We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted…


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