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Director, Marketing Project Management
Gap Inc.
New York, NY, United States
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Role Description
The Director, Marketing Project Management, drives the coordination and execution of all projects. They play an integral role in the organization and champion process improvement to optimize workflow and communication across teams, markets and channels. This leader collaborates with business partners to deliver projects efficiently providing leadership, and management of the PMO processes.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead the team in the development of schedules for all projects including creative review and approval with multiple milestones
• Primary contact to Marketing channel leads to streamline existing workflows
• Work closely with internal business partners to plan, manage and direct the execution of concepts, on-time, within scope, and in-line with budget parameters.
• Accountable for partnering and motivating cross functional teams creating an environment of collaboration and trust.
• Partner with Marketing and cross functional team to schedule and manage briefings, understanding each project, providing structure and communicating expectations
• Ensure creative and production teams have clear briefs that detail all deliverables and provide schedules to successfully meet deadlines
• Lead status meetings and manage a team of three Senior Project Managers
• Provide oversight and counsel on the assignment of projects based on skills and bandwidth including tracking individual workloads
• Continuously assess workloads based on workflow changes determining reallocation or additional resources as needed
• Develop best practices and procedures through process evaluation
• Responsible for the review and obtaining leadership sign off on all seasonal and promotional materials
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
Qualifications
• 6-10 years project management and production in retail or apparel industry.
• Strategic thinker with talent for leading, managing and motivating cross functional teams
• Proven ability to collaborate with Marketing, Creative and Production on brand and promotional marketing, creative direction, print production and store visual design
• Proactively partner with Marketing team and communicate to leadership the priorities with a deep understanding of team capabilities
• Flexible and comfortable managing change with a commitment to quality and deadlines
• Creative problem solver who enjoys analyzing the process to keep multiple projects successfully moving forward
• Delegator with a clear understanding of next steps both short and long term
• Strong communication skills with ability to provide clear feedback to leadership and team including escalating to management as needed
• Contagious customer service attitude with energy and positivity.
• Enthusiastic with passion for retail industry and specifically the Gap brand
• Knowledge of project managing tools, Smart Sheet and Work Front, a plus