Associate Director, Project Management

  • Full-time

Company Description

At Zenith we are dedicated to creating a sustainable advantage for our clients, providing them with a quantifiable return from their communications investment that outstrips their competitors.  Our focus on ROI ensures that clients' budgets are invested, not simply spent. We believe the most important consideration for any campaign is a demonstrably effective outcome.  We are committed to developing close partnerships with all our clients and to delivering a service that always exceeds expectations. 

Above all, we know that ideas and imaginative solutions are vital to make our clients' brands stand out from the crowd, connecting with consumers in a striking and persuasive manner.

Job Description

Responsible for managing workflow of projects. Handles campaigns or other projects end-to-end, such as resourcing, input, project milestones and risk mitigation.

Role Objectives:

·       Manages ongoing projects independently, on time

·       Sets up key meetings between all relevant parties to keep projects on task

·       Project Planning: Pro-actively manage all the details throughout the project ensuring all action-items are accomplished timely and accurately

·       Keep all timelines up-to-date based on daily changes

·       Proactively identify areas for improvement within process; suggest/implement solutions

·       Responsible for scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling projects

·       Obtains discovery material from clients and obtaining assets required for campaign

·       Demonstrates good judgment in choosing methods of communication that are most effective and efficient within the agency

·       Manages cross-project tracking and scheduling of several workstreams at the same time

·       Oversees holistic documentation and tracking of all projects currently being run by the team

·       Sets clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicates clearly to team and provides proper materials/documentation when necessary

·       Develop and track against schedules that align with client and agency needs and expectations

·       Prioritize and streamline tasks to ensure accuracy and efficiencies

·       Monitor ongoing of progress: project life-cycle analysis, resource management, detailed timing/schedules, budget input and issue feedback to Leadership; consult with team and adjusts as needed

·       Work directly with leads to estimate effort, plan activities and timelines

·       Identify where altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and efficiencies can be gained

·       Assess needs and distribute work within a group from concept/development, presentation and final production

·       Responsible for Scope of Work tracking.

·       Collaborate daily with client, teams and internal counterparts

·       QA deliverables

·       Communicate to large teams and across inter-departments

·       Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

·       Bachelor degree

·       5+ years of relevant experience

·       Ability to work across disciplines and departments

·       Ability to adapt to different types of work

·       PC proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

·       Proficiency in G-Suite

·       Excellent communication skills, particularly in conjunction managing up, and keeping peers on track

·       Initiative and personal responsibility for work

·       Strong attention to detail

·       Accountability and flexibility with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

·       Positive, team-player attitude

·       Exhibits strong listening skills and the ability to tactfully communicate position on relevant issues to reach team consensus

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