Help craft and tell beautiful stories, achieving the most creative and effective end result for the brand and the agency. Boutique ad agency with lifestyle clientele seeks to add highly passionate Project Management Director who will be the workflow authority for the agency. Someone who has built a career in Project Management, and understands that the agency is a business and you look to manage its workflow & resource deployment while minimizing churn.
What you’ll do:
-Motivate the PM and broader agency team by displaying a high level of respect, accountability and command for timelines, process and resource management across the agency
-Partnering with the CCO, ECD’s, Managing Director, and account management team, utilize a holistic view of the departments to offer guidance and recommendations on staff allocations
-Identify opportunities for workflow enhancement and embark on ways to refresh and share best practices across teams
-Assign and align resource needs with staff availability, strengths and developmental needs to maintain project and staff efficiency across multiple teams
-Participate in SOW creation process with Account Directors
-Monthly monitoring of agency hours to track burn across accounts, partnering with Account Directors to manage
-Assume accountability for the training and mentoring of PM staff, even those outside your brand assignment
-Project Manage key priority clients for the agency, while keeping track of other smaller projects working in tandem with other PM’s and Account Management team
-Integrate with other Senior leaders across departments to further the success of the Agency
The perfect candidate has:
-10+ years of project management experience within the advertising industry across multichannel media projects
-Experience managing and mentoring with a proven track record of hiring and developing staff
-Strong interpersonal skills and ability to lead teams in high-pressure situations
-The ability to think big picture, while not losing sight of the details
-Quality decision making and problem solving
-High level Emotional Intelligence and ability to navigate different personalities
Sounds perfect, right? Shoot your resume to hunter@thehuntinglodgenyc.com. Not for you? Please feel free to pass this opportunity along to a friend.
