Location
Minneapolis, MN | United States
Job description
We are looking for organized, proactive, forward-thinking Project Manager with experience in an advertising setting, to join our team. The project manager is responsible for creating and maintaining project schedules and estimates, maintaining job files, tracking and monitoring progress, communicating status, alerting team of potential problems, routing and reviewing projects and coordinating meetings.
- Develop overall project timelines, maintain updates to the resource tracking program, highlight key project milestones, and create internal/external status reports
- Able to prioritize, manage and move along multiple projects, anticipating project breakdowns, clarifying needs, managing conflict, providing resources and managing profitability to meet project goals
- Document and maintain project details such as rounds of revisions, revision requests/detail, approvals, third-party purchasing, contributions to client style guides, etc
- Ensure that projects are produced timely, on budget and with the degree of quality promised to the client
- Act as central knowledge base, communicating relevant project information and providing clear direction to team on deliverables, budget (hours) and timing
- Provide quality control by ensuring the review process is completed consistently, the client style guide is utilized, and that the piece(s) is/are viewed as a whole
- Facilitate internal briefings and ensure all necessary meetings occur
- Work with the VP Operations and Resourcing to manage resources, maintain margin standards, and regular meetings (monthly or weekly as appropriate for the account) to review budget status and gross income for assigned accounts. This should be done with and/or published to the Account lead Prepare and monitor accurately priced, appropriately scoped projects
- Ensure that account management achieves timely estimate/proposal/ change order approvals to proceed with client projects
- Manage final creative assets and perform QA process to launch campaigns
- Understand and continue to develop skills across traditional, digital and social media, as well as emerging technology
AGENCY CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Agency Representative in the Community – Represent Yamamoto positively in the business and advertising communities
- Agency Growth – Assist in pursuing new opportunities with assigned clients and new business initiatives
- Agency Commitment – Demonstrate loyalty to the agency
- Agency Culture – Demonstrate agency core values: curious, creative and courageous
- Curious: We never stop learning or exploring.
- Creative: We light up the room with engaging imagination.
- Courageous: We are fearless and are up for any challenge.
- 3+ years project management experience in a fast-paced advertising agency environment
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Highly organized with a strong ability to manage competing priorities and quick turn-around times
- Working knowledge of all aspects of the advertising spectrum: print, digital, broadcast, and beyond
- Has a positive teamwork and “help clients succeed” attitude
- Strong business acumen in project planning and management
- Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills
All employees will be expected to follow a 50/50 (20 hours weekly in office) hybrid working policy.
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