Responsibilities

• Manage large projects independently from initiation through completion
• Partner with Creative to effectively shepherd and manage the evolution of creative work, ensuring quality at all points from concept through delivery
• Active partnership with Resource Management, Production, and Technology departments to ensure connections and collaborations happen where they should, in support of innovative and award-winning creative ideas
• Work with account and client stakeholders to instill and enforce processes, workflows and tools that support the profitable delivery of client work
• Proactively manage, provide guidance, and develop clear communications around program and business-related risks, including mitigation planning and crisis management
• Responsible for the scoping and management of multiple concurrent large scale-projects and client engagements totaling over $4-8MM annually
• Partner with Client Service and Finance leads to actively manage business challenges, client relationships, developing annual scopes and contracts, estimates and staffing plans against scoped work, and maintaining profit margin
• Maintain and enforce high standards of communications and documentation, including status, financial reports, timelines, scopes, change orders, burn reports and forecasting, best practices and asset management, etc.
• Maintain departmental values, vision, direction and responsibilities with team stakeholders
• Provide solutions-oriented management with a strong ability to creatively solve problems with a positive, professional demeanor and a high degree of emotional intelligence

Requirements

• 4-6 years program management experience in a creative services organization working with cross-functional stakeholders including strategy, data and planning, creative, editorial, experience design, production, technology, operations and resourcing
• 1-3 years' experience managing a team of Associate and Program Managers
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Solutions-oriented mindset with a strong favoritism towards action
• Expert at managing traditional, digital, social, broadcast, OOH, radio and print deliverables
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• An ability to motivate, support and understand their teams
• Comfortable in a fast paced, growing environment
• Demonstrated understanding of project management methodologies, process and tools, including staffing, scoping, estimating, burn management
• Experience adapting project management methodologies (Agile & Waterfall) to the needs of a given project/client

Benefits

• Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.