Digital Lab Project Manager

Location - This new position can be 100% Fully Remote, or they can work onsite in Irvine, CA or Mettawa, IL. Remote is an option. If a candidate lives near an office location, prefer 2-3 times a week.

Summary

• The Digital Lab Project Manager will provide paid media optimization project management for key strategic initiatives supporting the Digital Labs Optimization & Activation team.
• This role will work closely with internal Digital Lab teams, as well as external third-party service providers to establish project plans, activity trackers, issue logs, durations and dependencies to drive planned media optimizations across the Brands.
• The Project Manager is expected to be autonomous in management of meetings, development of agendas, distribution of meeting minutes, management of project plans to drive media optimization delivery.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Provide team support to manage the development, progress & completion of project plans, RAID logs and ‘post-mortem’ learnings, from start to finish of paid media campaigns.
• Champion & hold team members accountable within and agency partners on project deliverables, trackers & timelines.
• Assign tasks and projects to team members based on timeline, workload and best fit.
• Monitor (health of) in-progress team assignments to ensure projects remain on schedule; address past due tasks and prioritize needs based on urgency and staffing.
• Support & manage team meeting schedule and provide meeting recaps and action items.
• Troubleshoot roadblocks and identify creative and compliant solutions to facilitate forward motion.
• Partner with business sponsors/key stakeholders to confirm project success criteria.
• Manage a multitude of interrelated projects within the constraints and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of a project. Ensure inter project dependencies are addressed proactively.
• Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to teams. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues and manage risks.
• Coordinate resources to ensure project and business needs are addressed through proactive priority management.
• Ensure project plans and resource plans identify capacity constraints across the media optimization leads and specialists to help with priority management
• Strong communication skills to drive delivery across project team members including communication of progress to Brand and management leaders
• Overall: Ability to influence, establish and maintain high-quality relationships with all cross-functional team members, promote collaboration to assist in planning and executing projects, including gaining consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables.

Competencies:

• Positive “all for one” approach to team deliverables and priorities.
• Strong project management abilities and critical work tool experience.
• Collaborate effectively in a matrixed environment with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work and lead initiatives independently, without day-to-day supervision
• Able to prioritize & manage competing priorities to ensure deadlines are met.
• Collaborative nature and ability to influence and guide cross-functional stakeholders.
• Exceptional functional knowledge and expertise on digital marketing campaigns.
• Inquisitive, strong analytical skills, including the ability to infer and apply learnings.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and follow-through on execution.
• Builds strong relationships to enable higher performance.
• Learns, fast, grasps the “essence” and can change course quickly where indicated.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Creates a learning environment and open to suggestions.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.
• Demonstrate a “servant-leader” approach while bringing deep subject matter expertise.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or Business.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience & proven track record of effective project leadership and positive results.
• Experience working in and with Technology Teams and products
• Proven Microsoft Project (or similar Project Management Tool), PowerPoint, Word and Excel skills are required.

Preferred

• PgMP/PMP Certification
• Ability to work in fast-paced and ambiguous environments with minimal oversight
• Experience working in and with Technology Teams and products

1. Position Title: Project Manager Lead – Project Manager III

2. # of Positions: One

3. Length of Contract: 1 year

4. Tentative Start date: February 13th

5. End date: One Year, with possible extension

6. Location/Site: 2525 Dupont Drive, Irvine CA / 26525 Riverwoods Blvd, Mettawa IL – Open to Hybrid Schedule or Fully 100% Remote.

Description Details

Are you open to look at candidates willing to relocate? Can be onsite or virtual/remote

What are the top 3-5 skills requirements should this person have?

• Strong project management abilities and critical work tool experience.
• Stakeholder management ?Keep cadence
• Story telling ability/bring communications to life
• Has extensive presentation experience

What are the top 3-5 skills requirements that would be nice to have-but not required?

• Public Relations/Media background
• Has experience in media optimization & reporting tool

Work Schedule (Define days,# of hours)/ Is Overtime offered or required? If yes, how many hours, what impact to scheduled working hours? Monday-Friday, 8:30-4

Does this position offer the ability to work remotely on a regular basis or is it an on-site role? If remote opportunity exists, what are the options (i.e. 1 day remote, 4 days on-site) Remote is an option. If a candidate lives near an office location, prefer 2-3 times a week.

Is the worker onshore or offshore? Onshore

Will there be Domestic and/or International Travel? No

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $65.00 - $75.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)

Experience level:

• 5 years

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Experience:

• Project Management: 5 years (Required)
• Digital Marketing Campaigns: 5 years (Required)
• Media optimization: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote

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