Senior Marketing Project Manager
Pace Communications Senior Marketing Project Manager
The primary role of the Senior Project Manager is to clearly define and manage project scope while delivering quality assets in a fast-paced environment. In this capacity, the Senior Project Manager is the main liaison between the client solutions (account management) teams and the creatives, strategists, developers, and other internal teams. Impeccable communication and organizational abilities are a prerequisite for consideration. Projects will cover a wide range of topics, including creating brand content, social assets, websites, print magazines, custom emails, marketing campaigns, social media content, and videos.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Partner with client account team to align on project needs, dependencies, scopes of work, resources needed, estimates, status, milestones, burn reports and presentations.
- Collaborate with creative, strategy, developer, analytics and performance media teams on deliverables and timelines.
- Ensure project deliverables are on schedule for completion on or before deadlines, communicating any scope-creep to client account team.
- Interact with other project managers on best practices and project management tool efficiencies.
- Partner with finance team for project plan entries and budget estimates.
- Review and approve submitted time entries on a weekly basis for prompt closure of prior weeks’ worked hours.
- Proper assignment of tasks within project management tool, Workfront.
- Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor progress, and periodically summarize and communicate project status for account teams and/or upper management.
- Monitor budgets and help to develop a strategy to stay on budget.
- Works with head of Project Management team to follow existing processes and suggest improvements
Education:
Bachelor's Degree in Project Management, Marketing, Communications or related field
PMP or SCRUM Master certifications a plus
Experience:
5+ years of experience in digital project management
Experience with Workfront for Project Management required
Experience at a marketing agency a plus
Skills:
· Flexibility and the willingness to adapt to meet the needs of the team.
· Someone who is comfortable in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment.
· A life learner who is constantly working to improve their professional knowledge.
· An entrepreneur, always looking to improve processes.
· Ability to work independently on multiple projects and identify potential project risks via collaboration with internal creative stakeholders, including escalating where appropriate
· Ability to lead and direct the work of team members
· Effective at handling multiple projects and tasks simultaneously and efficiently; superior multi-tasking skills
· Excellent writing, grammar, proofing, communication, presentation, and follow-up skills
· Exceptional organization and resource planning skills
· Extreme attention to detail
· Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
· Proficiency in Workfront
· Familiarity with bug tracking tools like JIRA
· Familiarity with at least one CMS (Content Mgmt System) such as WordPress, Expression Engine, Alfresco, etc.