at Daniel J Edelman Inc in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager for integrated projects ranging from strategies, activations, creative content for social media, and more. If you like variety and tailoring process to project, this is the job for you. We are seeking a Sr. PM who is process-oriented, unafraid to ask questions, a great communicator, and highly collaborative on integrated projects.
Who are you?
You love to organize, draft, and implement project plans across multiple projects at once. You lead with curiosity and serve as the common thread on programs, managing timelines, communicating priorities, and working with cross-functional teams so that nothing falls through the cracks. You are detail-oriented, have an energetic presence, and a belief in following through. You love collaboration, communication, finding efficiency, and teamwork in a fast-paced work environment.
Assembly, an Agency Built for Microsoft
Part of the Edelman family of global companies, Assembly is a marketing and communications agency built to serve Microsoft in advancing its mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. From media relations and social media to data & analytics and influencer collaborations, we seamlessly integrate various capabilities to develop stories that earn attention. We're proud to be Microsoft's agency partner across its Brand social channels; the global PR agency for Xbox; and the influencer agency of Xbox, Surface, Microsoft 365, and Windows; we also help several executives engage critical stakeholders and raise their visibility. Our success comes from our smart, passionate, and curious people, who tell great stories and solve complex business problems day in and day out.
The job
As the Senior Project Manager across programs with concurrent workflows, you'll work with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver for our clients. You'll collaborate with account, specialty, and project management peers and leads to ensure that project deliverables have a solid workflow, map to strategic intent and brand guidelines, all while meeting timing, scope, and budget requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Define and draft scopes, staffing plans and estimates, and obtain necessary approvals.
- Use of project management tools to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, budgets, and other relevant project documentation with input and oversight from relevant team members.
- Own the delivery of a work stream within large, complex initiatives and/or own mid-size projects independently and with minimal oversight.
- Manage and communicate the status of integrated initiatives across multiple projects to ensure successful delivery against scoped deliverables.
- Anticipate project needs, resolving project issues and removing barriers for the team.
- Pull and review project burn, and work to proactively identify and flag scope creep.
- Proactively communicate and manage hours, tasks, and timelines with integrated team members.
- Schedule and attend meetings, communicate next steps, and assign actions.
- Participate in client discussions related to project plans and set expectations on due dates needed to meet project goals.
- Partner with resource management and finance to manage staffing and plan future staffing requirements.
Basic Qualifications:
- A 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
- 5-7 years of project management at an integrated marketing or PR agency, or related experience, including but not limited to social media programs.
Particular...
Equal Opportunity Employer - minorities/females/veterans/individuals with disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity
