Director, Project Management

About the role

Informed by data, our passionate team strives to deliver Hero Moments for our clients’ brands in the final mile of the retail customer journey. We pride ourselves on being able to provide winning client solutions delivered across 7 core capability areas: Data & Consumer Insights; Shopper Marketing & Integrated RTM; Field Marketing; Events & Activations; Promotional, Risk, Reward & Loyalty and Retail POS Strategy.

Overview: We are seeking a Director, Project Management. Ideal candidates will have experience managing marketing campaigns within an advertising or marketing agency. Candidates must reside within a commutable distance from our Detroit or Chicago office for a hybrid work schedule.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day management and execution of all workflow in collaboration with key Agency cross-functional teams
• Responsible for helping to prioritize projects and deliverables
• Keeper of the cross-functional team’s schedules and owner of resourcing and workflow management
• Develop project critical paths and timelines
• Manage job jackets & job-level budgets, ensuring completion of programs within estimated hours and costs
• Work closely with Finance leads to support overall billing and budget management
• Maintain and update necessary reporting
• Quality control and mitigate risk
• Internal systems expert and keeper of process
• Responsible for billing and workflow systems & training/implementation
• Contribute to ongoing process refinements and ways of working

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, business or related field
• 10+ years of marketing or advertising experience, agency or project management experience preferred
• Experience in retail is a plus
• Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to manage time, adhere to strict timelines, multitask and work well under pressure
• Detail orientation and ability to ensure that projects are developed in line with client’s brand style and guidelines
• Ability to lead and drive alignment across teams and seniority levels
• Proactive nature in the seeking of work/responsibility
• Dependability in execution of work and as member of assigned team
• Enthusiastic, solution-oriented attitude in accepting work/new challenges
• Desire to learn all aspects of the assigned client scope of work and tactics
• Effective interpersonal skills working well across functions
• Conscientious work ethic

Benefits

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include: Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more; Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility; Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption; Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance; Tuition Assistance; Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more; Matching Gifts programs; Flexible working arrangements ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere; Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility); Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances. The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents. We also offer medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance. You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.

Pay

Compensation Range: USD $121,315.00 - USD $174,300.00/Annually.

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule; candidates must reside within a commutable distance from the Detroit or Chicago office.