Lead Integrated Project Manager
We are in relentless pursuit of a future where the currency of communication is action. Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum.
Our team is passionate about finding smart ways to deliver great work. We sit at the center of our business, collaborating with best-in-class teams to ensure that our ideas make an impact in our clients' real worlds. From cars to consumer goods, fashion and retail, financial services, food and beverage, luxury, technology, or healthcare – we are fanatics about integrated project management that enables our creative, strategy, and account teams to deliver smart and brilliant programming for our clients.
This is an exciting opportunity for a process-oriented, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge norms, and is eager to be the best in the business.
About Your Day-to-Day:
As a Lead Integrated Project Manager, you will lead complex, integrated projects. You will serve as the common thread on projects, managing schedules, deliverables, priorities, and teams towards flawless execution. You will be a strategic partner to Account and Specialty leads in project setup and ensure that project deliverables connect with creative intent, while meeting time specifications and budget parameters.
1. Own the intake of new work, cutting through the fog to provide counsel on a delivery approach that results in the definition scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams.
2. Lead the development and approval workflow of Statements of Work with Finance, Contracts, and Account teams.
3. Leverage project management tools and best practices to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, and project financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation.
4. Own the delivery of multiple large, complex, and fully integrated initiatives independently and with minimal oversight.
5. Independently manage risks and provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, raising scope creep, and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions.
6. Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure projects are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate, and SOWs are approved.
7. Drive internal team discussions related to project plans, setting expectations on due dates needed to meet project goals, scope, and budgets.
8. Partner with Resource Management to establish staff plans, providing clarity that aligns specialty team needs with project future staffing requirements to identify the best talent for the work.
9. Drive workflow among integrated teams, communicating status, next steps, and ownership on a regular basis to ensure successful delivery against client assignment and scoped deliverables.
10. Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines and ensure a high level of finesse on all project management deliverables.
11. Contribute to project operations and