Project Manager
Location: New York (100% Onsite)
Duration: 6 Months
Hourly Rate: Up to $40-$43/hour (DOE)
Planet Interactive's spectator sports client has a HOT need for a Project Manager with at least 4 years of experience managing creative projects and initiatives with a focus on effective stakeholder communication, executive-facing communication, task execution and process improvement.
Project Manager is a member of Creative & Content Marketing team, and is primarily responsible for managing and executing marketing projects, including ad partnerships, in-house advertising, and campaigns. This responsibility will include end-to-end project management from project scoping, managing the project calendar, monitoring timelines and deliverables, communicating status updates, and delivering final project and summary.
This role will also include production support from scheduling and facilitating production team meetings, maintaining the production calendar, coordinating timelines and deliverables, compiling status updates, and assisting with final summaries.
Project Manager Responsibilities:
- Establishes and manages project scope; develops specific goals and project plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work in support of business priorities.
- Assigns and monitors project owners and deliverables and holds the team accountable to the established budgets and timelines.
- Establishes meeting structure; manages project kickoff and status update meetings.
- Collaborates with team members, internal/external partners, and stakeholders to execute against project objectives.
- Streamlines and manages communication to internal project team members, as well as project stakeholders and clients.
- Monitors project progress, identifies and escalates project roadblocks, proposes solutions to address project issues/delays, and solicits feedback; escalates to senior leaders, as needed
- Delivers project updates and final project summaries to clients. Supports team members, internal/external partners, and stakeholders to execute against production objectives
Managing Responsibilities with Stakeholders
- Demonstrates understanding of business priorities
- Develops specific goals and project plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish work in support of business priorities
- Collaborates with team members, internal/external partners, and stakeholders to execute against project objectives
- Provides ongoing status updates to share progress against established goals, gaps, and support needs to maintain progress against project plans
- Actively solicits stakeholder feedback and responds to concerns in a timely manner
- Communicates in a clear and concise manner that is easy to understand
Project Manager Qualifications:
- 4 year degree from an accredited university in marketing, advertising, communications, business, or related field and 4+ years experience in marketing or related functional area; OR equivalent relevant experience
- Project management and/or consulting expertise preferred
- Proficiency in Excel + PowerPoint (Google Docs/Sheets)