Senior Technical Project Manager

at Rapp Worldwide Illinois in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

RAPP Chicago is looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to join our award-winning Program Management team.
WHO WE ARE:
We are RAPP - world leaders in activating growth with precision and empathy at scale.
As aglobal, next-generation precision marketing agencywe leveragedata, creativity, technology, and empathyto foster client growth.We champion individuality in the marketing solutions we create, and in our workplace. We fight for solutions that adapt to the individual's needs, beliefs, behaviors, and aspirations.
We foster an inclusive workplace that values diversity and emphasizes personal well-being.
HOW WE DO IT:
At RAPP, our fearless superconnectors help tocreate value from personal brand experiences by focusing on three key areas: connected data, connected content and connected decisioning.

Our data analysts identify who that person is, our strategists understand what they want, and our award-winning technologists and creatives know how to deliver it - ensuring we're able to activate authentic customer connections for our clients.

Part of Omnicom's Precision Marketing Group, RAPP is comprised of 2,000+ creatives, technologists, strategists, and data and marketing scientists across 15+ global markets.
YOUR ROLE:
This is a high profile and fast paced role within the Data and Technology arms of RAPP and involves managing the full lifecycle development of multiple projects simultaneously with the provision of leadership, direction and supervision to a number of project leaders and system engineers running independent projects and managing system changes. The type of projects you will be responsible for managing involves the development and implementation of large scale real-time marketing solutions and are highly driven by data and technology innovation.
Another key part of this role will involve being a business and technical liaison with a diverse range of functions with RAPP's client, their agency partners and RAPP 3rd party suppliers. You will be charged with setting and reviewing objectives and coordinating technology implementation activities across projects along with leaders from the technology group. In addition, you'll have commercial responsibility for your team and will be expected to provide accurate estimates, and measure these forecasts against actuals.
We are looking for someone who can understand and drive client requirements to ensure RAPP delivers excellent solutions both from a technical and operational perspective, someone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and manage the project through to delivery. You're creative, solutions-driven, organized and have exceptional people skills.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Take total technical ownership of assigned client systems and you will assess feasibility and provide technical solutions and estimates for the full range of proposed projects
Develop full-scale integrated project plans and associated communications documents and effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and oversee tasks though completion.
Manage expectations of clients and project stakeholders/sponsors at multi-levels including C-Suite level, take ownership for driving delivery through, be client facing and build a level of respect and trust with clients.
Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals and take fiscal responsibility for assigned projects to ensure profitability.
Define and work to statements of work and terms of reference.
Set policies and procedures for projects and ensure projects are run according to them.
Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals and assign individual responsibilities and resolve resource conflicts within assigned resources.
Facilitate documentation creation such as business requirements, technical architecture, and functional specifications and ensure technology solutions implemented to deliver best in class solutions for our clients.
Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements and from this, develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
Vendor Management & Tracking - work with 3rd party partners to align on project related costs, tracking of deliverables, and creation of necessary documentation.
Comfortable leading and working with client technology teams from project conception to delivery
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Bachelors degree required
5+ years relevant experience, tech environment is a must.
PMP and/or SCRUM certification beneficial
Be able to negotiate, coach, present and troubleshoot all the way through a... For full info follow application link.

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status.