Project Manager (Contract)
24 Seven Talent · Chicago, IL · 3 days ago
Information TechnologyContract
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple retail marketing and event projects simultaneously from kickoff through completion.
- Build and maintain detailed project plans, workback schedules, and key milestones.
- Cook up cross-functional teams, including creative, design, marketing, and external partners.
- Track project progress, deliverables, budgets, and timelines.
- Identify risks, bottlenecks, and resource constraints while proactively recommending solutions.
- Support project forecasting and long-range resource planning.
- Aid with workload prioritization and assignment planning across the team.
- Facilitate communication between internal stakeholders and regional teams throughout the Americas.
- Ensure projects remain organized, on schedule, and aligned with business objectives.
Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of project management experience, preferably within retail marketing, creative services, experiential marketing, events, or agency environments.
- Experience using Monday.com for project management.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
- Strong organizational, planning, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to develop project schedules, timelines, and workback plans.
- Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders.
- Experience managing budgets, milestones, and project deliverables.
- Ability to identify risks and proactively solve problems.
- Retail, experiential, or event marketing experience strongly preferred.