Project Manager

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Project Manager for a Contract assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Chicago, IL . Our Client is looking for a Project Manager to join the Digital Marketing team in Chicago. In this role, you will manage all types of digital media campaigns from conception and design to development and implementation across display, social, search and web. As a Project Manager, you will plan and prioritize all deliverables and resources working across multiple projects with design, strategy, and tech teams to produce amazing digital products and experiences. Responsibilities :

• Serves as point of contact for management, prioritization, and coordination of marketing campaigns, digital advertising campaigns, and our site-wide personalization efforts
• Serves as point of contact for our external advertising agency to manage all paid media campaigns
• Communicates status of project/campaign work to appropriate teams, as well as time/bandwidth reporting to head of digital marketing
• Fully understands impending requests and service level agreement timing; builds a work plan to coincide with launch schedules
• Collaborates with team members, cross-departmentally, to acquire all project information required to deliver work
• Participates in strategy, planning and concept meetings as required
• Maintains production schedules in collaboration with marketing teams and drives projects to achieve scheduled due dates
• Displays a willingness to learn about our internal systems and business
• Establishes a strong understanding of our brand and goals to ensure projects are hitting their targets
• Communicates clear direction and information to ensure teams understand project scope, timing and requirements
• Strong ability to manage/optimize process workflows and maintain service level agreements across different groups

• College degree in marketing or related field
• 3+ years of project coordination/management experience
• Working knowledge of agile and project management tools like Workfront and Smartsheets
• Experience using project management methodology, including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed task-based work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations and lead team meetings.
• Experience with software development life cycles, web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components, advertising projects, digital strategy projects.
• Ability to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the client's business, needs, expectations, and requirements.
• Strong knowledge of one or more of the following: web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and technology components, advertising, digital marketing, print, and strategy.
• Strong computer skills are required in MS Office (particularly Excel), internet, email, and phone systems.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong team player; ability to assist with facilitating teams and clients.
• Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner maintaining effective communication, both written and spoken.
• Ability to be highly organized, accurate, timely and able to prioritize.
• Ability to tolerate stress and be adaptable, flexible, persistent, versatile and handle multiple projects simultaneously and re-prioritizations.
• Ability to organize information, have attention to detail, accurately follow procedures, maintain confidential information and remember important pieces of information.
• Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in team environments