Description
The marketing team is responsible for leading programs focused on developing personal relationships with our customer and partners, improving brand awareness and equity, accelerating purchase decisions, driving customer loyalty, and optimizing marketing investment. As such we are continuously improving our tools and processes to support our vision both for external engagement and internal employee engagement. Strong project management and facilitation across our customer groups is key to our overall success.Specifically, this position is responsible for:
- Leading all project related activities using industry best practices for project management
- Defining and managing a detailed project plan
- Defining and managing project resource allocation
- Driving project to baselined schedules and approved budgets
- Providing appropriate scope oversight and leveraging change controls on the project
- Recognizing potential risks and developing and tracking mitigation plans
- Implementing and managing quality assurance measures
- Directing and supporting cross functional project teams
- Being a liaison between internal and external development teams and internal business partners/customers
- Managing project vendor relationship related to the execution of the project
- Providing consistent, thorough and concise project communication appropriately targeted to audiences from the project team to the Senior Leadership Team
- Supporting a continuous improvement mindset within the team
Required Skills and Experience
- 6+ years project management on medium to large projects.
- Ability to understand and navigate complex business organizations that are involved in project execution.
- Proven ability to manage complex projects and deliver results in a fast-paced, deadline oriented environment keeping track of multiple parallel tasks or projects
- Demonstrated problem solving skills
- Experience with Change Management methodologies
- Strong facilitation and people management skills
- Demonstrated attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to analyze information, organize and prioritize project related details effectively
- Experience with MS Project or other comparable tools
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills.
- Academic background in marketing, business, technology or related field. Undergraduate college degree or equivalent experience minimum, MBA a plus.
- PMI certification a plus
Behavioral Characteristics
- Project management excellence, attention to detail; ability to keep commitments
- Strategic thinker who can proactively identify and resolve execution activities challenges
- Relationship builder who partnerships with internal and external team and vendors
- Comfortable interacting with different levels of management and leading cross-functional, cross-regional teams
- Ability to facilitate productive team activities
- Adaptable to changing program needs
- Stress Tolerant