at Daniel J Edelman Inc in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
This position is open to be based from: Chicago, IL; New York, NY.
The Mustache 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 our ideas make an impact in our clients' real worlds. We are fanatics about integrated project management that enables our creative, strategy, analytics, and account teams to deliver smart and brilliant programming for our clients.
This is an exciting opportunity for a detail and process-oriented go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. We want project management passion and excitement. We want someone who is proactive, unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm, and is eager to learn from the best in the business.
Our Project Managers have tireless enthusiasm, the drive to ensure flawless execution, and the motivation to up-level their knowledge and skills within the Project Management craft.
Mustache Project Managers will apply day-to-day project management, financial management and team facilitation skills to the delivery of projects, while demonstrating an understanding of client business goals. They support Senior Project Managers to track project deliverables that connect with creative intent, while meeting time and budget specifications to achieve quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Develop business acumen by assisting in defining scopes and building estimates in partnership with Senior Project Managers or Project Directors, account leads and specialty teams.
- Track the development and approvals of Statements of Work with Finance, Contracts, and Account teams.
- Use project management tools to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, budgets and other relevant project documentation with input from team members and oversight from a Senior Project Manager or Project Director.
- Support the delivery of larger projects and/or own smaller projects with oversight.
- Proactively anticipate the needs of your projects, resolving project issues and removing barriers to success for the team.
- With oversight from the Senior Project Manager or Project Director, pull and report on project burn, identify and flag scope creep, and participate in the monthly forecasting process.
- Proactively communicate and manage hours, tasks and timelines with integrated team members to keep work moving forward within established time and budget constraints.
- Schedule and attend internal meetings, communicate next steps, and assign ownership of tasks; attend client meetings to understand client feedback, next steps and project implications.
- Partner with Resource Management to manage staff plans, relay resource needs and project future staffing requirements in established resource management tool.
- Oversee, manage and communicate the status of deliverables across multiple integrated workstreams.
- Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines.
- Collaborate with account and specialty teams to ensure successful delivery against client assignment and scoped deliverables.
- Balance a sense of urgency with calm and confidence at all times.
Basic Qualifications
- A 4-year degree or equivalent work experience.
- 2-4 years of project management, integrated marketing/PR agency, or related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong passion for and demonstrated knowledge in project management and integrated programming.
- Proficiency...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
