Vice President, Project Management
Ketchum
- Chicago, IL
- $140,000-160,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Tracks the work: Creates and manages timelines, tracks status of timeline and team responsibilities, creates weekly hotsheet
- Ensures compliance with client delivery processes and best practices
- Proposes teams resources and team responsibilities
- Partners with team to ensure consistent, high quality work delivered on strategy, budget and deadlines
- Regularly communicates and follows up on project status to all project stakeholders, including day to day client, agency partners and agency team
- Team management and operations flexibility
- Develops scopes of work, manage project scope, communicate out of scope activities, and recommend proposed action steps
- Estimates projects correctly
- Creates and manage fee and out of pocket budgets
- Monitors budgets in real-time
- Works with finance on forecasts in "Screendragon"
- Ensuring time is being logged correctly
- Manages third-party partners and/or vendor relationships
- Manage finance process including invoice processing, client invoicing, trackers, etc.
- Bachelor's degree desired
- Must have ad agency experience
- Project Manager Certification (PMP) preferred
- 10+ plus years of related work experience
- Ability to drive projects forward, communicate status, meet deadlines and work with minimal supervision and guidance
- Strong analytical, writing, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to be flexible, multi-task, and adaptive in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative self-starter with strong interpersonal skills
- Solid history of leading projects and meeting deadlines
- Workfront Project Management software experience preferred