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Associate Director of Project Management
MRM//McCann
New York, NY, United States
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Associate Director Project Management
New York City, NY
The Role
We are looking for an Associate Director of Project Management to join our growing team here in NYC. This person will oversee a large account or a group of smaller integrated accounts. The ability to manage several agency partners across multiple channels is required, with global experience a plus.
We are in need of someone who has a traditional, broadcast, digital and social background and is a leader with a passion for the creative process and emerging technologies who can lead the production of world-class campaigns and experiences for large-scale client engagements. As an Associate Director, you will create plans that allow the teams to create exciting work, help foster team growth and development, partner with your account peers to build and maintain strong client relationships, overcome obstacles by presenting solutions, and always endeavor to make the work better. To succeed, you will need to be a creative advocate, have a passion for creative and technology, maintain a deep project management toolkit, and exude excellent communication skills.
The Team
The project management team at McCann plays a critical role in everything we do. From refining process, project communications, defining resource needs to ensuring financial success for the agency, the Project Manager is the backbone of every project and the client operations expert on every account.
What you will do…
• Lead a team of associate project managers/project managers, and partner with business leadership and integrated production in the execution of dynamic digital activations and integrated campaigns for a Fortune 500 client
• Partner closely with Business Leadership and discipline leads to manage the overall program for the year, across multiple channels, managing multiple agency partners
• Develop and implement executional strategies for client projects
• Responsible for all internal communications and day to day deliverable management for account
• Identify opportunities and implement solutions to improve client and team dynamics, interactions and overall collaborative spirit
• Identify best practices and develop new systems, processes and tools for complex integrated client work
• Work with ECDs to define resource needs across agency working with the individual resource mgmt. teams in each department.
• Ongoing monitoring of all projects on an account, how they compare against the agreed upon client scope of work, projecting burn rates by client and tracking incremental scope opportunities.
• Work directly with Account Director, Operations lead and CFO on development of new scopes, staffing plans
• Oversee the agency workflow and establish client specific processes to ensure efficiencies and highest quality of deliverables
• Manage client/account budgets through proper scope definition, risk management and change management protocols
Who you will be…
• 5-7+ years of project management, production, product management, or operations experience within agency environments; demonstrated experience directing a variety of integrated projects for Fortune 500 clients or the equivalent
• Possess an expert knowledge of traditional creative, social activations and digital deliverables, capabilities and processes
• Leader, mentor to mid and junior level team members
• Partner to integrated advertisitng and production teams
• Partner to Business Leadership team members with ability to solve strategic, account level opportunities
• Strong team leader with a motivating work ethic and analytical mindset
• Effective negotiation and conflict management skills
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment
• A strong ability to mobilize teams to meet common goals
• Creative or technical agency experience desired
• Ablity to work directly with clients and inform on business process and heatlh
• Ability to communicate effectively in high-pressure situations
• 2+ years of experience managing large, multi-disciplinary teams of 20+ people
• Telecom experience a plus
• Candidate must be open to travel as needed
• Bachelor’s degree in related field required
The Company
McCann New York is the headquarters of McCann Worldwide, one of the world's largest advertising agency networks with operations in over 120 countries. The agency opened in 1912 with Truth Well Told as its founding -- and enduring -- creative philosophy. As we have enhanced this strategy-based creative approach to keep it relevant in today’s multichannel brand communications world, we have strengthened our ability to unearth consumer insights, highlight behavioral brand truths, and create innovative multiplatform experiences that help our clients’ brands play a meaningful role in consumers’ lives.
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