Director

• 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, producing top-down and bottom-up estimates that match final deliverables and work effort.
• Lead the development and approval workflow of Statements of Work with Finance, Contracts and Account teams.
• 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.
• Own the delivery of multiple extra large, complex and fully integrated initiatives independently and with minimal oversight.
• 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; manage SOW change order procedures as warranted.
• Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure projects are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved.
• Drive internal team discussions related to project plans, setting expectations on due dates needed in order to meet project goals, scope and budgets.
• Partner with Resource Management to establish staff plans, providing clarity that aligns specialty team needs with project future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work.
• 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.
• 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.
• Contributes to project operations and “the work behind the work” – owning intake, definition and prioritization of new project opportunities, establishing ways of working frameworks/best practices with new teams, and providing input on PM team assignments.
• Directly manage more junior project managers in project-based and/or career growth capacities, as team makeup allows.
• Extensive experience in working on earned-first, fully integrated brand campaigns, as well as experiential brand events, is a high priority for success in this role.
• Balance a sense of urgency with calm, confident and empathetic leadership at all times.

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