BarkleyREI has an immediate opening for a Senior Level Project Manager who is responsible for internal management of client accounts, client-facing communication and internal team management and assistance with overall resource management
Essential Responsibilities:
Lead project planning and day-to-day management of client web and online marketing projects, assist with overall resource management, ensure quality and timely delivery, ensure account profitability and actively participate in team and company development
Lead project planning and day-to-day management of client web and online marketing projects
- Estimate projects with help of teams and managers.
- Develop and maintain detailed work plans, project schedules, ensuring project milestones are met on time
- Lead definition and documentation of project requirements, including business requirements, measures of success, change management, communications, and project analysis for projects
- Communicate regular status reports and project updates to team, management, partners, and other project stakeholders
- Coordinate dissemination of assets from clients to production team
- Adhere to BarkleyREI process and standards through all phases
Assist with overall resource management
- Help to maintain interactive production schedule to ensure maximum resource utilization
- Assist in problem solving to eliminate schedule bottlenecks while maintaining steady flow of project work
- Proactively contribute to avoid scheduling conflicts
- Work with internal team members to resolve scheduling conflicts
Ensure quality and timely delivery
- Ensure delivery of superior quality, effective work
- Establish effective working relationships with team members
- Maintain open, professional, and timely communication
- Manage project and account risks and raise issues/concerns to management
- Manage project controls, including change control, documentation, meeting minutes, etc in support of delivery
- Lead problem resolution initiatives and maintain issue tracking process
- Conduct post-implementation review and document lessons learned
Ensure account profitability
- Develop and maintain detailed project estimates and budgets in conjunction with account team
- Deliver projects on budget through project estimating, tracking, reporting and invoice tracking
- Keep clients abreast of budget throughout projects and present change orders when necessary
Actively participate in team and company development
- Actively contribute to the creation and optimization of an efficient and effective process
- Support team members in skill transition and knowledge transfer
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 5+ years working with and managing complex web projects in an agency environment
- Interactive agency experience strongly preferred
- Ability to manage large, full-service interactive accounts with a multitude of simultaneous projects and initiatives
- Understanding of full spectrum of web development process, from strategy, UE, design, execution and marketing
- Solid understanding and command of project management tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong problem solving and negotiation skills
- Ability to organize information quickly and be detail oriented
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Flexibility in accommodating rapid change
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly
- Proven effectiveness when working under pressure
- A passion for all things interactive
EOE
Apply for this position at careers@barkleyrei.com.