Title: Creative Project Manager
Location: Fully Remote
Duration: 6 months (Possibility of extension based on business needs)

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/projects, both complex and small in scope. Through coordinating all workflow phases, schedule management, and approvals from project initiation through delivery in-market, you’ll 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/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 (e.g. - project kick-offs, creative reviews, stand-ups, production inputs, huddle meetings for risk mitigation, and lessons learned).
• 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 types.
• Cross-training peers within the department on process project lifecycles to aid in effective team management of programs/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,


What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
1. Interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate in a global team environment across multiple levels up and down, and across geos: India/NA/SA/UK.

2. Basic marketing operations understanding across multiple project types such as Web, collateral, video, digital, environmental, and social.

3.Time management, self-manage and being extremely organized in the day to day.

Additional Information:
PMO and Ops team consists of 19 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.

Years of Experience:    7-10 Years of Experience 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $52.00/hr - $53.85/hr.