Project Manager

• Develop an overall project plan for each assignment, covering key workstreams, owners, milestones, cross-functional dependencies, and detailed outsourced cost items. Maintain a one-page project overview and update it on a weekly basis.
  
• Create and apply project checklists for each stage of delivery, including legal requirements, measurement criteria, and pre-launch testing.
  
• Coordinate and manage vendors by translating the strategic direction from the internal team into clear vendor briefs and conducting acceptance checks against agreed checklists.
  
• Work directly with the client-side Project Manager as the main project contact, including weekly progress meetings, issue tracking, change requests, acceptance documentation, and payment procedures.
  
• Manage project risks by ensuring that every escalated issue is accompanied by at least two possible solutions and one recommended course of action.
  
• Monitor campaign performance metrics during implementation and consolidate relevant data for post-campaign effectiveness reporting.
  
• Update project checklists after each assignment based on lessons learned and actual project experience.
  

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a Project Manager within an agency, activation company, or communications organization serving large corporate clients.
  
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-workstream communications projects involving at least four workstreams running simultaneously, project durations of more than three months, at least five vendors, and direct ownership of the project budget.
  
• Hands-on experience working with client-side project teams and Procurement functions, including project acceptance, payment, and final settlement procedures.
  
• Candidates are required to bring three self-prepared work samples to the interview, with all confidential information removed: one project plan, one risk log, and one project checklist.
  
• Proficiency in at least one project planning tool and one budget tracking tool is required.
  

• Understanding of the banking and financial services sector, particularly card and account products, as well as banking procurement and project acceptance procedures, is an advantage.
  
• Previous experience delivering projects for banks, card organizations, or e-wallet companies is preferred.