Job Description
Job Title: Creative Project Manager Location: NYC, NY (Hybrid) Duration: 6 Months Contract Description: Responsible for overseeing and directing multiple projects at a time (within a given brand or client or potentially across multiple brands or clients) or a singular, large scale or highly complex project, and ensuring that these projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations and are delivered on-time and on-budget.
The Project Manager will interface heavily with senior client services team members, planning teams, and executive management within the client to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the customer's business requirements.
They will also ensure that the challenge and requirements are understood by the team and will participate in the solution developed by the team.
They are also responsible for the accurate financial management of the portfolio of projects to which they're assigned.
In addition to project responsibilities, Project Managers may also participate in the business development process and may be a key member of the pre-sales team.
This job will have the following responsibilities: - Provide timely, proactive written project documentation to internal teams and clients in the form of status reports, meeting notes and other required follow-ups.
- Interface heavily with senior management within the client organization to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the business requirements.
- Ensure that the assignment and requirements are understood by the team and actively participate in the solution developed by the team
- Coordinate and lead project meetings, internal and client facing
- Understand and remove project roadblocks
- Heavily participate in resource management
- Partner with discipline leads to prepare project plans and accurate project estimates
- Understand and document production scope and write project SOWs
- Accurately manage the financial aspects of the portfolio of projects
- Control changes in scope and end of project closing requirements
- Client facing and has full engagement and ownership of project (project tasks, activities and risks).
Qualifications & Requirements: - 3-5+ years of experience as a producer or project manager in a digital media agency
- Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications; OR equivalent professional work experience
- Ability to manage cross-discipline teams (i.e. - Creative, media planning and activation, Strategy and Media), ensuring they work together to make big ideas become reality
- Proactive, creative, strategic thinker with an impeccable attention to detail and problem solving skills
- Ability to prioritize work in order to meet competing deadlines
- Proven track record and a passion for delivering high quality projects on time and within budget while providing excellent client service
- Skilled with financial and resourcing deliverables (including but not limited to resource forecasting, invoicing, developing statements of work, tracking actuals and financial reporting)
- Experience and understanding of digital media including, social, search, app and programmatic
- Experience documenting requirements
- Google's suite of office management tools (Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Hangouts, etc.)
- Excellent and proactive communication
- Ability to balance needs of team and client expectations
- The right candidate can build relationships, show and earn respect, and will contribute to the creative team culture in an energetic and forward thinking way.
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