Senior Technical Project Manager

Senior Technical Project Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 5+ years of experience managing medium-complex technology or data projects or programs
• Project experience in one or more of the following areas: CRM and 360 campaign management, i.e. digital, direct mail, video, radio, etc.
• Technology and Analytics platform modernization and development
• Cloud Transformation leveraging AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Implementing Data Driven Decision Workflows.
• Marketing Technology solutions such as Pega CDH, Sales Force or similar.
• Web technologies, including HTML, DHTML, Flash, XML, etc.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator with track record of working with cross-functional and leadership teams.
• Strong knowledge of project management methods, including Agile, Scrum and SaFE and ability to design and improve associated processes.
• Expertise in MS office products (Powerpoint, Excel, Visio, Word) and project management tools, including MS Project, Workfront, Atlassian, Smartsheet or others
• Proven experience in building and maintaining project documentation (SOWs, Project Schedules, Estimates, Budgets, Status Reports, RAID, Project Presentations)
• Solutions-oriented and process-focused with strong organizational skills and a keen eye for detail.
• Must have strong written and presentation development skills.
• Must have strong leadership skills and ability / desire to mentor junior PM talent.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple technology, infrastructure and data projects end to end, within scope, budget and schedule commitments.
• Build and optimize project workflows and processes with a goal of continuous improvement and delivery efficiency.
• Develop project schedules, milestones and dependencies using PM tools such as MS Project, Workfront or Smartsheet.
• Integrate project management practices with agile delivery processes, oversee effective completion of epics, user stories and sprints, leveraging Jira.
• Build project budgets and forecasts, proactively identifying and mitigating financial risks, and escalating when needed.
• Collaborate with discipline leads, HR and finance to define project resource plan and ensure staffing is completed on time to meet project timelines.
• Partner with operations, contracts and vendors to build SOWs, cost estimates, scope and deliverables and manage vendor performance to contractual commitments.
• Establish and maintain project document management processes and collaboration tools such as Sharepoint, Teams and Confluence.
• Co-author project SOW’s, develop ROMs, impact assessments, project estimates, and project change requests. Ensure work is continuously aligned with all department leads and meet tight timelines.
• Monitor project progress, effectively communicate status and proactively mitigate risks. Be comfortable adapting to changes throughout the project.
• Understand business value of projects, continuously align team work to project priorities and value.
• Build respectful, strong working relationships with client(s), external agency partners, vendors and internal teams across all agency disciplines and business support functions.
• Develop understanding of account, agency and delivery processes and enforce adherence across project teams to them.
• Build persuasive, executive level presentations to communicate project plans, progress, solution approach and risks.
• Lead efficient meetings and conference calls. Ensures timely conference notes and action steps taken.
• Mentor junior team members of the best practices of the agency and project management.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.