Junior Project Manager Design

Key Responsibilities

• Develop project plans, schedules, and budgets in collaboration with the team and client.
• Owes all gates, risk and commercial controls to run the project they are accountable for, for best utilization, workflows, and delivery.
• Support day-to-day operations of assigned projects, ensuring smooth execution and delivery.
• Track project performance in partnership with the PMO, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Collaborate closely with the PMO to ensure projects align with organizational goals and governance standards.
• Maintain data integrity within project management tools like Workfront, ensuring accurate reporting and alignment with organizational objectives.
• Act as a point of contact for internal teams, including designers, strategists, and copywriters.
• Facilitate team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and status updates to ensure alignment and progress.
• Avoid capacity or timeline concerns by allocating resources effectively.
• Serve as the client contact for assigned projects regarding delivery, providing regular updates and addressing questions or concerns.
• Ensure alignment between client objectives and project deliverables.
• Manage expectations and build strong relationships to foster trust and satisfaction.
• Monitor project budgets and margin, ensuring all costs are accounted for and within scope.
• Proactively address scope changes, ensuring client approval and proper documentation.
• Manage project timelines, identifying risks and adjusting plans as needed to meet deadlines.
• Identify potential challenges and develop solutions to keep projects on track.
• Escalate issues to the Senior Project Manager or Project Director when necessary, ensuring transparency.
• Contribute to improving project management workflows and tools for greater efficiency.
• Document lessons learned and best practices for future projects.

Team Collaboration

• Facilitate team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and status updates to ensure alignment and progress.
• Avoid capacity or timeline concerns by allocating resources effectively.
• Flag any capacity or timeline concerns.

Client Relationship Management

• Serve as the client contact for assigned projects regarding delivery, providing regular updates and addressing questions or concerns.
• Ensure alignment between client objectives and project deliverables.
• Manage expectations and build strong relationships to foster trust and satisfaction.

Budget & Timeline Management

• Monitor project budgets and margin, ensuring all costs are accounted for and within scope.
• Proactively address scope changes, ensuring client approval and proper documentation.
• Manage project timelines, identifying risks and adjusting plans as needed to meet deadlines.

Problem Solving & Risk Mitigation

• Identify potential challenges and develop solutions to keep projects on track.
• Escalate issues to the Senior Project Manager or Project Director when necessary, ensuring transparency.

Process Improvement

• Contribute to improving project management workflows and tools for greater efficiency.
• Document lessons learned and best practices for future projects.

About Propelis

Propelis is a portfolio of global marketing services and technology companies with a combined legacy of 150+ years, 2,000+ clients, 9,000 employees, and operations across 30 countries. Propelis provides the scale and support of a global organization while preserving the unique culture and identity of each company in its portfolio.

EEO Statement

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We offer equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. We strive to make our employment website and application process accessible to all users and applicants. In doing so, we provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation or assistance completing the application process, please contact a member of our Human Resource Team.

Compensation

The U.S. pay range for this position is $53,000 USD - $63,000 USD annually. Ultimately, in determining pay, we will consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

• A selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• A flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection.
• Short/long term disability.
• 401(k) Savings Plan.