Project Manager

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·        Manage the timely delivery of all marketing projects, ensuring they align with business goals and remain within scope, schedule, and budget.

·        Elicit requirements using interviews, workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, wireframes, and workflow analysis.

·        Collaborate with business owners to understand business goals and objectives for projects.

·        Coordinate incoming marketing requests, assign projects to appropriate staff, and ensure progress to completion.

·        Manage project workflows among Marketing, Creative, Design, and Digital teams, working with leadership to ensure process efficiencies.

·        Assess project risks continuously, escalate issues as needed, and provide solutions-oriented approaches to maintain schedules.

·        Facilitate information flow among all project participants and work independently with project teams, SMEs, and stakeholders to resolve issues.

·        Communicate project scope, goals, and success metrics to the project team.

·        Create and manage project schedules using tools like Microsoft Project, Asana, Smartsheet, to outline tasks, milestones, dependencies, and resources.

·        Establish rapport with business owners by providing consultative project management services.

·        Prepare timely and accurate status reports for executive leadership, project sponsors, and stakeholders.

·        Manage projects within the approved budget and monitor change requests for budget impacts.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge

·        Awareness of industry best practices and systems development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Scrum), and desire to deepen responsibilities within these areas of expertise.

·        Understanding of marketing, creative services, and design operations. 

Skills and Abilities

• Strong project management skills, proficient in using project management software like Asana.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with all levels of the organization.
  
• Ability to lead projects independently and work collaboratively in a team environment.
  

 Experience

·        A four-year college degree in a related field is preferred.

·        PMP or Scrum certification are a plus, or a desire to obtain one of these certifications.

·        Experience with HubSpot or similar marketing automation tools and Salesforce.com or other CRM systems.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

·        Normal demands associated with a deadline-drive office environment.

·        The noise level is generally quiet to moderate.

·        Daily contact with external customers, vendors, colleagues, associates, supervisors, and staff at all levels of the organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

·        Ability to remain at a desk for extended periods of time.

·        Ability to communicate and exchange information with others.

·        Ability to move about to coordinate work in areas of varying heights.

·        Ability to perceive and inspect records in a document management system.

·        Ability to operate general office equipment.

·        Ability to travel to off-site meetings.

·        Ability to lift, carry, move, or position objects weighing up to 10 pounds.