[Hiring] Creative Project Manager @Iconma Portal

Role Description

Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Creative Project Manager – Marketing Operations / Creative Services for their Remote location.

• Orchestrating projects through the project lifecycle.
• Managing schedules, communication, and deliverables for multiple programs/projects, both complex and small in scope.
• Ensuring projects meet or exceed expectations and are delivered on-time.
• Project Planning:
  • Helping outline forecasted client workload to aid in agency planning efforts.
  • Proactive partnering with the Account Management/Strategists on a regular basis to understand and review client project roadmaps and priorities.
• Project Lifecycle Management:
  • Championing the agency processes and workflow to safeguard consistency while flexing when required for project success.
  • Ensuring upfront project requirements are received and are aligned with the appropriate project priority and workflow.
  • Partnering with the Resource Managers for creative assignments and resource management.
  • Creating comprehensive project schedules that outline project milestones from initiation to in-market delivery based on scope, timing, deadlines, and resources.
  • Capturing milestone dates and overall timelines regularly, validating and adjusting timelines as needed.
  • Facilitating project approvals for internal stakeholders.
  • Identifying and proactively resolving any deliverables that might fall behind schedule.
  • Communicating project status, approvals, risk, and delivery.
  • Scheduling, facilitating, and recapping project-related team meetings (e.g., project kick-offs, creative reviews, stand-ups, production inputs, huddle meetings for risk mitigation, and lessons learned).
  • Ensuring proper project closure and archive procedures are executed.
• Workfront System Coordination:
  • Leading and orchestrating all assigned client activities and documentation within the Workfront system from initiating work through project close-out procedures.
  • Certifying the system centrally houses all project requirements, schedules, documentation, and project approvals.
  • Leveraging system reporting to analyze, translate, and communicate trends or project insights.
  • Functioning as a ‘power user’, utilizing all system features and functions and suggesting system improvements.
  • Proactively suggesting system enhancements and system short-cuts to administration team.
  • Assisting in system training for new hires or system releases.
  • Providing support for system releases or upgrades.
• Process Champion:
  • Serving as the guardians of the process within BTLDM.
  • Possessing a complete understanding of all BTLDM processes – web, social media, advertising, etc. in order to effectively manage assigned projects across owned or paid media channels or deliverable types.
  • Cross-training peers within the department on process project lifecycles to aid in effective team management of programs/projects.
  • Contributing to process improvements through identifying process opportunities for efficiency, determining the need for a new process or contributing to process improvement through a formal task force or initiative.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years professional related experience in a project management/traffic environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of most of the following project types: design, digital, social, media, video, broadcast, print production, web.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of project management principles.
• Understanding process methodologies: predictive, agile, and hybrid.
• Strong willingness to learn and roll up sleeves in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize accordingly to changing deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate your co-workers, and inspire a one-team approach.
• Gives and receives feedback with positive intentions.
• Intuitive problem solver with the ability to anticipate and action plan.
• Unwavering can-do attitude in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Savvy and genuine negotiation skills.
• Challenges the status quo, champions change, influences others to change.
• Possess a profound curiosity, and never afraid to ask “why?”.
• Learns equally from successes and failures.
• Prior experience working in a project management software solution – Workfront preferred.
• Expert in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Basic knowledge of Adobe Cloud programs a plus (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).
• Interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate in a global team environment across multiple levels up and down, and across geos: India/NA/SA/UK.
• Basic marketing operations understanding across multiple project types such as Web, collateral, video, digital, environmental, and social.
• Time management, self-manage and being extremely organized in the day to day.

Benefits

• Health Benefits.
• Referral Program.
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities.