Senior Marketing Project Manager

About the role

The primary role of the Senior Project Manager is to clearly define and manage project scope while delivering quality assets in a fast-paced environment. In this capacity, the Senior Project Manager is the main liaison between the client solutions (account management) teams and the creatives, strategists, developers, and other internal teams. Projects will cover a wide range of topics, including creating brand content, social assets, websites, print magazines, custom emails, marketing campaigns, social media content, and videos.

Responsibilities

• Partner with client account team to align on project needs, dependencies, scopes of work, resources needed, estimates, status, milestones, burn reports, and presentations.
• Collaborate with creative, strategy, developer, analytics, and performance media teams on deliverables and timelines.
• Ensure project deliverables are on schedule for completion on or before deadlines, communicating any scope-creep to the client account team.
• Interact with other project managers on best practices and project management tool efficiencies.
• Partner with finance team for project plan entries and budget estimates.
• Review and approve submitted time entries on a weekly basis for prompt closure of prior weeks’ worked hours.
• Proper assignment of tasks within project management tool, Workfront: set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor progress, and periodically summarize and communicate project status for account teams and/or upper management.
• Monitor budgets and help develop a strategy to stay on budget.
• Work with the head of the Project Management team to follow existing processes and suggest improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Project Management, Marketing, Communications, or related field.
• PMP or SCRUM Master certifications a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in digital project management.
• Experience with Workfront for project management required.
• Experience at a marketing agency a plus.

Skills

• Flexibility and willingness to adapt to meet the needs of the team.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment.
• A lifelong learner who constantly works to improve professional knowledge.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, always looking to improve processes.
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects and identify potential project risks via collaboration with internal creative stakeholders, including escalating where appropriate.
• Ability to lead and direct the work of team members.
• Effective at handling multiple projects and tasks simultaneously; superior multi-tasking skills.
• Excellent writing, grammar, proofing, communication, presentation, and follow-up skills.
• Exceptional organization and resource planning skills.
• Extreme attention to detail.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Proficiency in Workfront.
• Familiarity with bug tracking tools like JIRA.
• Familiarity with at least one CMS (Content Management System) such as WordPress, Expression Engine, Alfresco, etc.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with profit sharing.
• Life Balanced Account for reimbursements (e.g., groceries, haircuts).
• PTO: Vacation, Recharge, Safe & Sick Time, Flexible Holidays + 10 standard paid holidays and a paid Day of Service.
• Free financial wellness and planning.
• Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Pay

The salary for this position will range from $63,000 to $80,000 depending on experience, education, geographical location, and other factors.

About Pace

Pace is a leading integrated marketing agency and digital storytelling powerhouse. We specialize in brand storytelling and deliver results by continually creating better customer and employee experiences for our clients. We connect the dots across an integrated marketing ecosystem using our six key service areas: strategy, creative, media, social, technology, and analytics.

We Create With Heart. We believe everyone is part of creating something wonderful every day. We lead with purpose and empathy. We cultivate a sense of belonging and celebrate diversity in both mind and experience. Everyone’s voice carries the same tenor, and inclusivity is in our DNA.