Manager, Project Management

2 weeks ago


Chicago, United States EssenceMediacom Full time

Title: Project Manager

Discipline: Business Operations

About EssenceMediacom

EssenceMediacom challenges conventional thinking to build, propel, and supercharge our clients’ businesses at scale and lead our industry in critical areas such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability. Our daring global network of 10,000 influencers help our clients breach traditional boundaries in media, uncover novel ideas, and unleash exponential growth. We understand that our people are tasked with big goals: building breakthrough growth for brands and leading with breakthrough thinking in our industry. EssenceMediacom is a place for us to grow our careers and expand our horizons. EssenceMediacom is committed to building an agency culture that supports our people, puts diversity at the forefront of our operations, and creates opportunity for all.

About the role

Responsible for overseeing and directing multiple projects at a time (within a given brand or client or potentially across multiple brands or clients) or a singular, large scale or highly complex project, and ensuring that these projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations and are delivered on-time and on-budget.

The Project Manager will interface heavily with senior client services team members, planning teams, and executive management within the client to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the customer’s business requirements.

They will also ensure that the challenge and requirements are understood by the team and will participate in the solution developed by the team. They are also responsible for the accurate financial management of the portfolio of projects to which they’re assigned. In addition to project responsibilities, Project Managers may also participate in the business development process and may be a key member of the pre-sales team.

Some of the things we’d like you to do:

- Provide timely, proactive written project documentation to internal teams and clients in the form of status reports, meeting notes and other required follow-ups.
- Interface heavily with senior management within the client organization to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the business requirements.
- Ensure that the assignment and requirements are understood by the team and actively participate in the solution developed by the team
- Coordinate and lead project meetings, internal and client facing
- Understand and remove project roadblocks
- Participate in resource management
- Partner with discipline leads to prepare project plans and accurate project estimates
- Understand and document production scope and write project SOWs
- Accurately manage the financial aspects of the portfolio of projects
- Control changes in scope and end of project closing requirements
- Client facing and has full engagement and ownership of project (project tasks, activities and risks).
- Support the business development process of the assigned account as needed

A bit about yourself:

- 3-5+ years of experience as a producer or project manager in a digital media agency
- Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, business administration, and communications; OR equivalent professional work experience
- Ability to manage cross-discipline teams (i.e. - Creative, media planning and activation, Strategy and Media), ensuring they work together to make big ideas become reality
- Proactive, creative, strategic thinker with an impeccable attention to detail and problem solving skills
- Ability to prioritize work in order to meet competing deadlines
- Proven track record and a passion for delivering high quality projects on time and within budget while providing excellent client service
- Skilled with financial and resourcing deliverables (including but not limited to resource forecasting, invoicing, developing statements of work, tracking actuals and financial reporting)
- Experience and understanding of digital media including, social, search, app and programmatic
- Experience documenting requirements
- Google’s suite of office management tools (Gmail, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Hangouts, etc.)
- Excellent and proactive communication
- Ability to balance needs of team and client expectations
- What you can expect from EssenceMediacom

The team at EssenceMediacom aims to provide the best service to our clients while growing the partnership beyond a simple agency/client relationship. We do this by employing the world’s very best talent to solve some of the toughest challenges of today’s marketing landscape. Still, we also rely on a solid day-to-day working relationship to enable the team to perform at their best. Therefore, we must hire people whose values reflect our own: genuine, results-focused, daring, and insightful. As an EssenceMediacom employee, we promise you a workplace that invests in your career, cares for you, and is fun and engaging. We believe these factors create a workplace where you can be yourself and do fantast


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