Senior Planning & Coordination Manager, Combat

Main Responsibilities

• Collecting and evaluating functional area project deadlines, milestones and deliverables.
• Making sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
• Identifying key areas of risk or delay that require additional focus or escalation to executive leadership to ensure dependent milestones are not impacted.
• Serve as a client-facing team member, required to coordinate meetings, reporting, and project deliverables with our Partners and internally.
• Preparing status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information.
• Establishing & maintaining effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
• Serving as a central hub of information and support for the entire team so internal and external communication along with relationship building is crucial to the success of the role.
• Supporting special strategic growth initiatives within the Combat team from creation to completion by working with internal stakeholders and external clients to define that concept and create a process to bring it to fruition.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or master's degree in Event or Project Management.
• Proven experience in event operations, event product building, project management & project management tools.
• Problem solving, creative solutions and strong communication are all essential.
• Forward thinker, strong planning skills.
• Ability to look ahead at possible scenarios to manage different outcomes and prepare the project team members accordingly.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, across multiple time zones, with the ability to prioritize projects and deliverables as demands shift.
• Ability to distill complex projects in a simple and understandable method requires training experience.
• Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion.
• Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.
• Experience as a large-scope project manager.
• Able to complete projects in a timely manner.
• Understanding of Project Management Systems; Airtable, Smartsheet.
• Excellent PowerPoint capabilities.