Creative Project Mgr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American multinational information technology services and consulting company and is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses.

Job Title: Creative Project Mgr

Work Location: Teaneck, NJ

Duration: 5+ Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote EST

Job Description:

• PMO and Ops team consists of 16 people overall.
• This person would work across one-two key Project Managers or Sr. Managers to help support specific books of business and/or mid-large projects.
• Candidate should have the ability to manage 25-30 projects monthly in a fast-paced environment.
• 2 weeks of comprehensive training would happen prior to managing projects solo.
• Candidate would be encouraged to attend weekly team huddles and monthly operations meetings within the team.
• As a Project Manager you'll be responsible for orchestrating projects through the project lifecycle.
• This includes managing schedules, communication and deliverables for multiple programs and projects, both complex and small in scope.
• Through coordinating all workflow phases, schedule management, and approvals from project initiation through delivery in-market, you will ensure projects meet or exceed expectations and are delivered on time.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Planning, Helping outline forecasted client workload to aid in agency planning efforts.
• Proactive partnering with the Account Management and Strategists on a regular basis to understand and review client project roadmaps and priorities
• Project Lifecycle Management, Championing the agency processes and workflow to safeguard consistency while flexing when required for project success. Holistic project planning and schedule execution for programs and projects
• Ensuring upfront project requirements are received and are aligned with the appropriate project priority and workflow
• Partnering with the Resource Managers for creative assignments and resource management
• Creating comprehensive project schedules that outline project milestones from initiation to in market delivery that are based on scope, timing, deadlines and resources
• Capturing milestone dates and overall timelines regularly, validating and adjusting timelines as needed
• Facilitating project approvals for internal stakeholders
• Identifying and proactively resolving any deliverables that might fall behind schedule
• Communicating project status, approvals, risk and delivery
• Scheduling, facilitating, and recapping project related team meetings
• Ensuring proper project closure and archive procedures are executed
• Workfront System Coordination, Leading and orchestrating all assigned client activities and documentation within the Workfront system from initiating work through project close-out procedures
• Certifying the system centrally houses all project requirements, schedules, documentation and project approvals
• Leveraging system reporting to analyze, translate and communicate trends or project insights
• Functioning as a power user, utilizing all system features and functions and suggesting system improvements
• Proactively suggesting system enhancements and system short cuts to administration team
• Assisting in system training for new hires or system releases Providing support for system releases or upgrades
• Process Champion, Serving as the guardians of the process within BTLDM
• Possessing a complete understanding of all BTLDM processes, web, social media, advertising, etc in order to effectively manage assigned projects across owned or paid media channels or deliverable type
• Cross-training peers within the department on process project lifecycles to aid in effective team management of programs and projects
• Contributing to process improvements through identifying process opportunities for efficiency, determining the need for a new process or contributing to process improvement through a formal task force or initiative

Qualifications

• 7-10 years related professional experience in a project management/traffic environment
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of most of the following project types: design, digital, social, media, video, broadcast, print production, web
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of project management principles
• Understanding of process methodologies: predictive, agile and hybrid
• Strong willingness to learn and roll up sleeves in a fast-paced environment
• Outstanding organizational and time management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize accordingly to changing deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to motivate your co-workers, and inspire a one-team approach
• Gives and receives feedback with a positive intention
• Intuitive problem solver with the ability to anticipate and action plan
• Unwavering can-do attitude in a fast pace, deadline driven environment
• Savvy and genuine negotiation skills
• Challenges the status quo, champions change, influences others to change
• Possess a profound curiosity, and never afraid to ask "why?"
• Learns equally from successes and failures

TECHNINCAL SKILLS:

• Prior experience working in a project management software solution Workfront preferred
• Expert in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Basic knowledge of Adobe Cloud programs a plus (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat)

Top Must Have's:

• Interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate in a global team environment across multiple levels up and down, and across geos: India/NA/UK
• Basic marketing operations understanding across multiple project types such as Web, collateral, video, digital and social.
• Time management, self-manage and being extremely organized in the day to day.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.