Creative Project Manager

Company Description

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise. Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. We do it daily for notable brands. 

Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people in dentsu international’s global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu Creative.

Job Description

As an important part of the project management team, you will provide daily tactical support in the management of all activities with our teams, agency clients and external partners for the assigned business/product. You will ensure all assigned tasks are delivered on time and budget, and according to internal processes and industry best practices. This is a remote position reporting to Group Director, Project Management, Performance Creative.

Responsibilities include:

• You will prepare and own timeline, budgets and project scopes across multiple workstreams
• You will manage resourcing allocations with resource management team
• You will monitor creative team member's workloads and seek support when needed
• You will manage daily hot sheet reports, issues tracker, deliverable lists, etc.
• You will capture meeting notes and ensure team members understand next steps
• You will initiate new jobs within the agency and track team hours against scoped hours
• You will manage workflows
• You will track out-of-pocket expenses in collaboration with Finance, Account Management and Production
• You will participate in internal financial billing meetings
• You will ensure quality control of all end product
• You will bring new ideas and industry best practices recommendations for senior management's consideration
• You will manage escalation processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 2– 4 years Assoc. PM or PM, production or account experience in an integrated agency or relevant environment
• Demonstrate a understanding of integrated campaign tactics and the management of those
• Demonstrate capacity to understand dynamics of multi-discipline teams and resolve team-related issues that could affect deliverables
• Keep team members up to date on status of projects, and scheduling meetings
• Participate in/lead cross-agency teams
• Understand both low and mid-level complexity project cycle process, and apply this when assisting SPMs with the management of concurrent work, ensuring approval of all team members on each …