Marketing - Senior Project Manager

Marketing - Senior Project Manager

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Job Description

A Senior Project Manager at Razorfish is equal parts planning guru, problem solver, strategic thinker, client relationship builder, team leader, cheerleader and cat herder.

You’ll be leading global teams and clients to deliver digital solutions. You watch timelines and budgets like a hawk. You’re fanatical about quality. And, you know how to consider client drivers when thinking about tradeoffs between time, scope, quality and risk.

You are key to building a positive team environment. You are great a building relationships and driving team collaboration. You care deeply about individual development and high performance standards.

You’re comfortable leading teams of 15-20 people. You seamlessly bring together multiple disciplines even when we’re using the same words but mean different things.

You are the primary point of contact for the client on a day-to-day basis.

You may play a variety of roles as a Senior Project Manager:

• Managing a complex, multi-track project
• Leading a small-scale program consisting of multiple projects

You love the details, get excited about planning weeks / months ahead and thinking about risks that may get in our way. You transition seamlessly between the nitty-gritty details and the big picture.

You’re an expert at juggling a half-dozen things at a time and prioritizing across them as needed.

You love problem solving. You know how businesses work. You get excited about learning the nuances of each client and you bring been there / done that / outside perspectives wherever possible.

Obviously, you will have a deep understanding of project management tools and methodologies.

You have excellent verbal and written communication skills. You’ve mastered the ability to build crisp and concise PowerPoint slides around a story arc. And, you’re a wiz at adapting your message depending on your audience.

You thrive in a fast-paced environment and know how to adapt your approach when working with people from different disciplines (technology, creative, data, strategy and marketing engagement)

You’re comfortable whether you’re working in a Razorfish office, on a client site or remotely. You understand that frequent overnight travel may be required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partners with other project leaders to drive teams of 15+ people. Builds and structures the project team to ensure maximum performance.
• Structures and manages integrated, multi-track projects and/or programs of multiple projects. Including

• • Provides purpose, direction and motivation to team. Clarifies and communicates project objectives and success criteria.
  • Project and/or program communications
  • Estimations and staffing
  • Creation of project deliverables
  • Scope management
  • Definition of roles and responsibilities
  • Development and tracking of integrated project plans
  • Project and/or program issues tracking and management
  • Sets quality and performance standards

• Leverages best practices and applies lessons learned from previous projects
• Ensures a positive, collaborative work environment for the team. Directly supervises the work of Associate Project Manager(s), Track / Discipline Leads
• Maintains awareness of the current industry environment that shapes opportunities for client solutions (i.e. news events, trends, mergers, etc.).
• Participates in progress and quality reviews of other projects. Actively shares knowledge and learning from project experiences.

Job Requirements:

• 7+ years project management experience in successfully delivering marketing and technology solutions; consulting experience preferred
• Mandatory experience leading diverse project types and future interest should include supporting the following project types:
  technology, creative and strategy
• Experience using waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies
• Led multi-discipline, globally-distributed teams of 15 + people in dynamic and fast-paced environments.
• Experienced multiple full project life-cycles from business development to final delivery
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously (preferably in an integrated program)
• Experience delivering web builds leading a team of creative and strategists liaising with technology teams.
• Should be well versed with project management tools like MS teams, Confluence, jira or equivalent.

Qualifications

Required skills: Strong communication and leadership skills. Strong analytical, prioritization and decision-making skills.

Experience with MS Teams, Smartsheets, Jira, Confluence are a plus.

Additional Information

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