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Job Description
About the Role:
The Associate Director, Project Manager is the team’s project management lead, ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. The Associate Director leads a multi-skill (ie online and offline) team of project managers. This person owns project definition, scope monitoring, budgeting & timing at the brand level. Career-manages a team of direct reports.
Knowledge
Ensures that the project management team utilizes a flexible project management approach that adheres to established processes, yet remains open to novel ways of getting the work done
Leads large teams to drive complex programs/campaigns to completion based on scope and budget.
Talent Development: Hire and retain highly-capable people while fostering diversity and career development
SOWs: Accountable for the development, accuracy and maintenance of all team SOWs
Client finances: Collaborates (with Business Manager if available) to provide accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects and brands
Strategy
Resource allocation: Reviews all projects across account to determine resource and skill requirements; partners with Resource Management to drive resource allocation management; ensures the right resources are cast to the need
Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies
Quality Control: Structures and leads project status reviews; leads cross-team post-completion review
Informing:Partners with account team to provide appropriate communication directly to clients in an effort to clearly manage expectations
Risk Management: Leads large teams to develop and manage risk mitigation plans
Tactics and Execution
Agency Cost Management: Vigilantly seeks to optimize both agency services and internal resources
Management: Responsible for the career development of others
Execution: Prioritizes work in progress (WIP) with production and account teams to pull work forward and break bottlenecks
Vendors: Point of escalation for vendor management concerns
Scope Definition: Scopes and estimates complex, multi-channel engagements
Relationships
Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Collaborative business partner to team capability leads
Client Relationship: Client-facing lead on issues related to production and project management
Qualifications
About You:
You’re comfortable being client facing
You have strong conflict management skills
You have knowledge in Microsoft Office including Excel
You have advanced knowledge of digital projects
If you have knowledge of broadcast/video production it’s a plus!
If you have knowledge of digital project routing systems it’s a plus!
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Vacancy expired!