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Project Manager
Project Manager
Candidate Profile:
Our client recognizes that significant changes in the marketplace demand a new perspective on branding – elevating clarity, authenticity, empathy and future-forward thinking in our strategic deliverables. These include Vision +Purpose, Value Proposition, Brand Positioning + Personality, Brand Architecture, Portfolio Strategy and Verbal
Branding, including naming. Possessing a real passion for brands, you have a talent to engage with a wide range of partners successfully and an inherent ability to synthesize disparate inputs into actionable frameworks, strategies and designs.You are a self-starter and a confident leader. You have a high level of purpose and will only deliver excellence in work quality.
Primary Responsibilities:
- You are responsible for communicating project status to the team, including project meeting minutes and updates, performance-to-project plan, project risks and other critical details and data as warranted
- You will coordinate scheduling and planning; communicating across all levels inclusive of the project team, stakeholders and external vendors
- You have the ability to manage multiple projects at one time, and will coordinate research activities, including logistics, scheduling, planning and documentation coordination
- You will bridge design and business disciplines, evaluating and gauging appropriate risks and future opportunities
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Up to 3 years of project management experience
- SCRUM certification preferred
- Previous experience working in a creative / design environment highly preferred
- Project management training, excellent planning and project management skills desirable
- Project management certification a plus but not required
- Strong experience using Microsoft Project required
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Strong analytical aptitude with creative abilities
- Ability to facilitate the generation of detailed and accurate, risk-adjusted project plans and track against the
- Above all else
- Friendly, thoughtful and perpetually curious
- Humble to your core with a sharp emotional intelligence
- Able to build trust, even when communicating a dissenting point of view