Job description
Our client, a big ad agency, is seeking an Integrated Project Manager to join their team.This role is partially onsite in their Hollywood office.
Responsibilities:
Project Managers are facilitators, partnering with Account Services, Strategy, Creative and Production to anticipate, plan and communicate key information required for successful agency projects and initiatives.
- Collaborates with account leadership and other stakeholders to develop integrated project schedules either general topline or project specific, and provide team with key milestones and due dates
- Facilitate communication and understanding within the agency team and partners of task objectives or deliverables, key dates, milestone contingencies, project status and implication of delays
- Proactively identifies resources such as time, money or external contractors necessary to support initiatives and complete project accurately and on-time
- Builds project plans, resource sheets, project playbook and review with Senior Project Manager and account team leads
- Foster collaboration; identify and bring together appropriate team members and internal resources as needed
- Collaborates cross-functionally across disciplines to ensure projects are moving effectively toward their milestones; ensures that the team is operating smoothly and efficiently in order to achieve the most integrated and efficient productions
- Sees the big picture, but stays on top of the details; aware of project status at all times and communicates project status to team to ensure on-time project completion
- Proactively identifies and escalates potential issues before they hinder progress; leverages interpersonal skills facilitate creative problem solving
- Organizes project information; creates clarity when information is unclear
- Adapts and modifies plans and schedules as needed based on new or updated information
- Collaborates with other stakeholders to update project tracking systems to provide teams and management accurate status around resourcing, timing and burn
- Learn, maintain, communicate and reinforce correct process, procedures and best-practices. Coach, mentor and train others as needed
- Documents and archives project activities and asset files; monitors the archival of other stakeholder assets
- 5-7 years project management or production experience; ideally across 360 campaigns
- Experience working in a creative environment (advertising/PR, entertainment, media); from strategy development through to production delivery
- Team player, able to multi-task and problem solve under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to establish strong working relationships with cross-functional teams
- Professional and flexible demeanor to handle interactions with a range of people from entry level team members to executive leadership
- Able to work autonomously but also collaboratively with team for solutions-oriented results
- Clear and concise written and verbal presentation skills and style; proficient in presentation (Google Slides, Keynote, PowerPoint) and workflow software (Smartsheet, Microsoft Project)
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