We’re looking for a passionate, curious and organized Senior Executive to be part of our team, delivering a multi-discipline communications scope for a multi-national brand. As a Senior Executive, Communications & Project Management, you will support the account management team in co-ordinating projects across a range of verticals - creative, strategy, production, content, and media. The core responsibilities will be to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track, in addition to playing the lead role in planning campaigns, resourcing, monitoring and quality control from start to finish. This role will also be tasked with submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective project plans, ensuring their effective execution throughout. 

Technical & Product

• Proven experience in project management.
• Ability to co-ordinate project teams of various sizes. 
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.
• Experience with project management tools (such as Project, Asana, Trello , Basecamp)
• Ability to complete projects in a timely manner.
• Budget management experience.
• Ability to develop, implement, and review policies and procedures.
• Ability to oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing.
• Ability to proactively problem-solve, and identify new opportunities for the agency. 

Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency

• Working with the creative services manager and aligning on project timelines. 
• Managing stakeholders on clients projects and organizing their projects from approval of concepts till the end. 
• Forward planning, identifying potential risks and proposing solutions. 
• Troubleshooting unforeseen issues as they arise, escalating as required. 
• Establishing effective project communication plans (CPS) and ensuring their execution on time.
• Following the project's progress and bypassing problems. 
• Evaluating a post-project and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements by preparing status reports. 
• Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards. 
• Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
• Enforcing deadlines and maintains efficiency across teams.
• Scheduling project-related meetings
• Allocating tasks and responsibilities to team members. 
• Encouraging communication among team members. 

Innovative & Analytical Mindset

• Effective communication skills, able to connect with people at all levels. 
• Strong leadership skills: able to motivate the team and drive maximum performance. 
• Good decision-maker. 
• Technical expertise: Since project management software and other related programs are essential in accomplishing the project goals, an effective project manager needs to have the knowledge to understand the issues that are related to the technical aspect. 
• Inspires a shared vision: A visionary person can lead people to the right direction as well as easily adapt to the changes that come along the way. They are good at empowering people to share responsibility for delivering on this vision. 
• Cool under pressure.
• Good negotiation skills: One of the qualities needed for effective project management is the ability to negotiate. In times that conflict arise due to differences in opinion, project managers need sheer negotiating skills to settle the issue and maintain harmony in the team.
• Problem-solving mindset.
• Self-motivated and innovative. 
• Time management skills. 

People & Leadership

• Seeks others' feedback to develop self-awareness, strengths and address development area.
• Is able to proactively raise issues to improve effective team working and collaboration.
• Is able to communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and embraces an inclusive based environment.
• Is able to make valuable contributions to discussions and brainstorming sessions, providing insight and point of view.
• Able to build relationships quickly with others and engages personally with peers and clients.
• Treats others with respect, listens to other perspectives, especially when they are different from own.
• Able to tackle problems in a timely manner and develop contingency plans that focus on problem resolution.
• Drives a culture of trust with Peers, clients and all other stakeholder.

Self

• Is able to take ownership for actions and deals with consequences in a mature manner.
• Able to adjust performance based on experiences and feedback and showcases agility and flexibility.
• Displays openness to the ideas of others and leverages them when beneficial for the business.
• Showcases curiosity and open mindset towards new ways of doing things.
• Is able to set high impact objectives and goes above and beyond to exceed performance.
• Demonstrates the Growth Mindset and is able to take ownership of personal development and growth.
• Capable of constructively challenging the status-quo and takes risks to challenge internal and external perspectives.
• Approaches situations and individuals with honesty, integrity and humbleness.
• Displays resilience and maintains drives and a positive outlook when faced with challenges.

Education and Experience Required

• Maintaining a positive attitude even when under pressure: Above all, attitude before aptitude.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing or other related field.
• 1-3 years’ experience in related field (some degree of comms agency experience is necessary as the job requires a high level of understanding of communication principles and agency functions).
• 1-2 years’ experience with project management theory and best practices. 
•  Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). 
• Evidence of being solution-driven and innovative with how they drive performance and delivery. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.