Length of Initial Contract 2 years – Based on performance and business needs
Remote, 100% Onsite or Hybrid Onsite Schedule Hybrid. Three days in the office two days remote.
NOTE: Remote: Monday/Friday; Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office - this may change, but this is as it is now.
Top 6 Skills Needed for role.
- Strategic Communication: Effectively conveying creative concepts and project updates to executive leadership, ensuring clarity and alignment with corporate goals. Clearly articulating ideas, expectations, and feedback between creative teams and stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Management: Navigating complex stakeholder relationships, setting expectations, and engaging executive leadership to drive project success.
- Organization & Prioritization: Managing multiple initiatives, resources, and timelines efficiently, especially in a highly regulated, fast-paced environment.
- Creative Problem-Solving: Addressing challenges with innovative solutions that align with creative goals and business objectives.
- Stakeholder Management: Building strong relationships with clients, team members, and leadership, managing expectations professionally.
- Adaptability: Flexibly adjusting to changing priorities, feedback, and fast-paced environments common in creative settings.
- Budget Estimation: Building estimates, accurately forecasting project costs, managing budgets/scope, tracking expenditures.
As part of Client’s , the Project Manager partners with cross-functional teams and external collaborators to deliver high-quality, cost-effective creative and communications solutions.
- In this role, the Project Manager operates both independently and collaboratively to execute a wide range of projects including campaigns, events, meetings, and corporate communications that advance Client’s business priorities.
- Responsibilities include interpreting client direction, developing accurate project estimates, securing, and coordinating creative resources, and overseeing project timelines and budgets to consistently exceed internal stakeholder expectations.
- The Project Manager works closely with employees from all areas of the organization, including Executive Leadership, managing initiatives such as disease awareness campaigns, product launches, sales and training materials, and internal communication programs.
- Experience with visual communication design and production, marketing concepts, event management, and digital media is highly valuable in this dynamic creative environment.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the creative conceptualization process by providing complete project scope to the creative team. Prioritize projects and assure appropriate resources are allocated properly.
- Partner and support the business development team in maintaining business with current Client clients.
- Manage execution of project plans and timelines to meet project deadlines without exception. Responsible for estimates, quotes, and invoice projects monthly.
- Meet or exceed financial goal within the role of $XXXX annually. Positively influence the improvements in workflow process. As an active member of the Account team, share best practices.
- Provide support outside your ‘normal’ client base, as business may demand. Partner within Creative to strategize on ways to improve effectiveness.
- Comply with applicable Corporate Policies, Procedures and Mandatory Training. Must be able to communicate project, budgetary, resource or quality challenges and concerns openly with clients/key stakeholders and internal teams.
- The Project Manager should have the ability to adapt to changing external influences. The ability to build relationships quickly will be an asset to the success in this role.
- Must track time on a daily/weekly basis and meet established utilization numbers for this function.
- Must be an excellent communicator collaborating with internal staff to be able to meet critical initiatives. This person must be able to work tactfully and effectively with all levels of employees at Client especially with Executive Leadership Team.
- Must be self-motivated, willing to take on additional responsibilities, and need little to no supervision. Because of the close interaction with Executive Leadership, superb people skills, executive presence and professionalism are a must.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education:
- BA/BS required.
- Emphasis in Communication, Marketing, Advertising or Business Administration
Minimum Experience:
- Graduates with 5+ years of work experience.
- 5+ years Project Management/Account management. Account Management in a creative agency or meeting/event planning environment experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
- Excellent executive oral and written communication skills.
Ideal Skills:
- Collaboration: Successfully builds strong productive, mutually beneficial relationships while enhancing collaboration with peers, internal stakeholders, and external partners.
- Communication: Excellent executive communication skills written, presentation and oral that persuades and gains understanding and alignment with others in a professional tone. Strong ability to read and display professional non-verbal cues with others. Able to influence and communicate with various levels of the organization.
- Problem Solving: Ability to solve complex problems with innovative thinking resulting in improvements to business solutions and efficiency.
- Customer Focus: Highly skilled at adjusting and adapting service delivery to diverse customer needs and sensitivities.
- Technical Skills: Is SME on related technical, systems and business process skills and consistently seeks opportunity to improve skills to advance business objectives, e.g.training others in department. Able to research and learn technical areas.
- Latitude and Attention to detail: Ability to work independently with strong attention to detail. Must be able to determine objectives to assignments while prioritizing competing priorities and schedules.
