at Daniel J Edelman Inc in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
The Edelman Project Management team is passionate about finding smart ways to deliver great work. We sit at the center of our business, collaborating with best-in-class teams to ensure Edelman ideas make an impact in our clients' real worlds. From cars to consumer goods, fashion and retail, financial service, food and beverage, luxury, technology or healthcare - we are fanatics about integrated project management and enable our creative, strategy and account teams to deliver smart and brilliant programming for our clients.
This is an exciting opportunity for a process-oriented, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm and is eager to be the best in the business. Our Program Directors have deep experience in integrated project management and are leaders within the Project Management team and across a portfolio of clients, recognized as a go-to for high priority program definition, delivery best practices, and PM team leadership.
About Your Day-to-Day:
Edelman Program Directors are responsible for providing structure and overall delivery vision on projects and for overseeing a client portfolio consisting of multiple work streams and disciplines. Serving as the overall program management lead on accounts, they oversee a team of project managers that lead schedules, deliverables, priorities and teams towards flawless execution. They are a strategic core team leader and counselor to Account and Specialty leads in program management, project delivery approach and financial health. Program Directors are also leaders within the Project Management team, guiding career development and fostering an inclusive, growth-minded team culture.
Responsibilities
- Own the intake of new work and the evaluation of new briefs, devising delivery approaches for each assignment drawing on PM best practices
- Own and manage project definition in scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, producing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort.
- Champion project management tools and best practices that standardize how to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation.
- Independently own the delivery of large, complex programs independently and with support from more junior project managers.
- Serve as an escalation point to manage risks and provides solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, controlling project scope and the change control process, and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions.
- Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure clients are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved.
- Drive client discussions related to project plans, financial health, Edelman capabilities and approach to delivery.
- Partner with Resource Management to forecast current and future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work.
- Establish workflow and best practices on integrated businesses that enable teams to efficiently deliver against program goals.
- Ensure quality checks and consistency of all outputs across all project deliverables
- Ensure flexibility in approaches to fit client, creative, and business needs, while managing change and the exploration of various budget/time scenarios to elevate work.
- Contribute to project operations...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
