Project Director

About the role

The Edelman Project Management team is seeking a Project Director to join our dynamic and collaborative team. This role requires a proven track record in project management, integrated marketing/PR agency experience, and a passion for delivering exceptional client experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, integrated projects from planning through execution
• Manage schedules, deliverables, priorities and teams towards flawless execution
• Provide counsel on a delivery approach that results in the definition of scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams
• Own the intake of new work, cutting through the fog to provide counsel on a delivery approach that results in the definition scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams
• Leverage project management tools and best practices to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates and project financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation
• Own the delivery of large, complex initiatives independently and with minimal oversight
• Independently manage risks and provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, raising scope creep and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions
• Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure projects are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved
• Drive client discussions related to project plans, setting expectations on due dates needed in order to meet project goals, scope and budgets
• Partner with Resource Management to establish staff plans, providing clarity that aligns specialty team needs with project future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work
• Drive workflow among integrated teams, communicating status, next steps and ownership on a regular basis to ensure successful delivery against client assignment and scoped deliverables
• Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines
• Contributes to project operations and “the work behind the work” – owning intake, definition and prioritization of new project opportunities, establishing ways of working frameworks/best practices with new teams, and providing input on PM team assignments
• Directly manage more junior project managers in project-based and/or career growth capacities

Requirements

• A 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
• 6-10 years of project management, integrated marketing/PR agency, or related experience
• Mastery of mid to large-level sized project delivery, from planning through execution
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool)

Qualifications

• A self-reliant multi-tasker, with the ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• A strategic mindset, with a knack for critical thinking and creative, head-on problem solving
• A bias for action and the unshakeable ability to confidently lead projects and teams through ambiguity
• A people leader with a “get things done” and positive mentality
• A passion for the art and the science of creative problem solving, as well as operational excellence
• A strong and fearless communicator, with the ability to navigate conflict resolution and influence teams to a desired end goal

Skills

• Project management
• Integrated marketing/PR agency experience
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool)

Benefits

• $86,000 - $130,000 a year
• Annual bonuses
• Paid time off
• Region-specific benefits
• Medical and dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• 401K
• Travel assistance
• Wellness programing

About Us

Edelman is a new kind of agency, at the intersection of PR, Advertising, Social, Digital, Earned Media and Experiential. We blur the lines between each medium to create smart, innovative, and powerful work that gets people talking and engaging with brands in new ways. We’re passionate, unconventional and driven by a desire to do the best damn work possible. We get results for our clients and have the trophies to prove it. We were awarded the Grand Prix Cannes Lion for PR in 2014; six Cannes Lions in 2015; and the Grand Prix in the Titanium category in 2016. We were named “2016 Global Agency of the Year” by the Holmes Report, and one of Advertising Age’s “Agencies to Watch” in 2014. In 2015, we were among Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work” for the fifth time. Visit www.edelman.com for more information, and take a peek behind the scenes of our US operation at https://edelman.us.