Marketing Project Manager

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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Description

  • Develops semi-sophisticated project-tracking spreadsheets using MS Excel
  • Tracks tactics and updates plans to reflect progress (or lack thereof)
  • Organizes information into easily accessible MS Excel or Word documents
  • Facilitates and plans meetings as directed by the Sr Marketing Manager and ensures adherence to agenda in order to accomplish the purpose of the meeting
  • Meets weekly with Sr Marketing Manager to review projects under their stewardship
  • Authors PowerPoint presentations or polishes draft presentations created by the Sr Marketing Manager
  • Monitors and summarizes progress of projects and prepares weekly project status reports
  • Can plan and orchestrate events at public venues with Senior Executive audience and VIPs
  • Will be supporting a Student Contest and will be expected to: Monitor contest mailbox for questions, obtain answers and post to page for publication; Log registrations and video submission info into a spreadsheet; Write, build and prepare blast emails for registered students who haven't submitted videos by end of August; Work with eChannels to post video submissions, author descriptive paragraphs or pull descriptions from submission materials if necessary; Update contest web pages as necessary; Organize criteria score sheets and manage the overall Phase I judging process; Assist in event planning for Phase II award ceremony; Assist in outreach to judges for Phase II; Work to obtain W2s from prize winning students; Possible copy writing; Polishing of draft PowerPoint presentations; and Setting up meetings and conference calls and taking minutes, preparing post-meeting reports.

SKILLS:

  • At least 5 years experience managing marketing assignments and overseeing execution of marketing tactics.
  • Must have experience managing multiple marketing assignments simultaneously, and proven success of completed tasks using exceptional project management and communication skills
  • Relies on project management experience and judgment to recommend appropriate courses of action, and can plan and execute tasks with minimal supervision in order to achieve goals;
  • Able to communicate effectively and reach out to other departments to gather information, accurately frame-out issues and work with stakeholders to implement tactics
  • Must have prior marketing experience
  • Knowledgeable in (or able to learn) basic HTML coding
  • Understands fundamentals of email marketing
  • Excellent customer communication and writing skills.
  • Solid marketing background required; behavioral marketing, behavioral economics or marketing/gamification skills greatly preferred.
Start date
n.a
From
Synectics
Published at
02.07.2014
Project ID:
735471
Contract type
Freelance
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