Project Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

We’re an agency of troublemakers united for good to bring humans and brands radically original solutions. We’re a collection of 600+ like-minded individuals bonded by an unwillingness to think and do things like everyone else. If you’re ready to rethink what is formerly known as “best practices” and think beyond keeping up the status quo, we should get to know each other. Even how and where you work has been reimagined to be flexible at the core and at a pace that’s right for you. Are you in?

Job Description

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

Role Objectives:

  • Manages small to mid-sized projects independently, or supporting a Senior Project Manager/Program Director in leading a portion of a larger engagement on time, on budget while exceeding client expectations
  • Project Planning-Pro-actively manage all the details throughout the project ensuring all action-items are accomplished timely and accurately
  • Proactively identify areas for improvement within process; suggest/implement solutions
  • Responsible for scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling projects
  • Obtaining discovery material from clients and obtaining assets required for design implementation
  • Demonstrates good judgment in choosing methods of communication that are most effective and efficient within the agency
  • Anticipates along with identifying risks and seeks partnership from a more senior Project Manager to assist in mitigating any issues
  • Sets clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
  • Working knowledge of developing and tracking against schedules and budgets that align with client and agency needs and expectations
  • Prioritize and streamline tasks to ensure accuracy and efficiencies, proactively identifying issues/risks
  • Provide ongoing monitoring of progress: project lifecycle analysis, resource management, detailed timing/schedules, budget input and production issue feedback to Sr. Project Manager/Program Director; consults with team and adjusts as needed
  • Work directly with project 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
  • Work with Senior Project Manager and/or Program Director to learn how to draft SOWs, Change Orders to provide basics on how to manage an end-to-end project based on the financial perspective.
  • Collaborate daily with Project Managers, teams and internal counterparts
  • Schedules and plans QA, where QA team is not in place
  • Understands the basics surrounding rights management, negotiating and licensing
  • Work with proficient knowledge in the area of project planning for comprehensive campaign programs and fast turnaround projects
  • Track and maintain budgets for campaign programs to ensure agency profitability
  • Communicate to large teams and across inter-departments
  • Active involvement in Moxie, ZO and externally throughout the industry
  • Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 2+ years of relevant experience
  • Ability to work cross disciplinary across all of the functional departments
  • Ability to adapt to several different team structures / types of work
  • PC proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
  • Excellent communication skills, particularly in conjunction with work flow steps and internal processes
  • Initiative and personal responsibility for work
  • Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask
  • 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

Additional Information

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