Ecommerce Project Manager

Our client, a leader in tech/retail space, is looking to hire an eCommerce Project Manager, with Amazon experience, on a permanent basis, starting immediately.

Type: Full-Time (Salaried)

Location: Chicago

Schedule: Hybrid (2-3 times a week)

Overview:

As a Project Manager on the Americas Center of Excellence, you will be responsible for the project management and delivery of all advertising projects and assets within the Americas Center of Excellence (CoE). You will work closely with all functions within Marketing, primarily partnering with strategy, category teams (client), creatives and production to ensure we are moving projects toward delivery with the appropriate levels of governance at all phases from brief to delivery to asset management.

Responsibilities:

• Required to understand both agile and waterfall methodologies in order to support both campaign creation and digital production.
• You must be familiar with Kanban along with traditional project management documentation and tools in order to successfully lead any project request or sprint to completion.
• Collaborate with the strategist and the owners of the brief to understand the full picture of the project and the deliverables required – need to have an understanding of the briefing process and the ability to examine and question each request to ensure clarity.
• Define the scope of the project, manage resourcing within the team and highlight needs to increase resourcing when needed.
• Understand the asks and help determine value of projects and prioritization of what is most critical to work on.
• Manage changes in scope and understand the implications of them, communicate to the cross-functional teams, and escalate where necessary.
• Lead status meetings with categories, content teams as well as corporate, includes updating reporting documents.
• Work closely with creative teams to ensure they have a full picture of the projects upon briefing and manage the progress of the creative development.
• Partner with Producer or team specialist to create a detailed scope of work pre-production, and assist throughout production, including: project management of pre- and post-production, management of digital display with our digital production partner, upload all final assets to asset management system , supplier management, and billing.
• Collaboration and communication are a vital part of this role. You must be able to effectively negotiate and prioritize daily requests against clear business criteria in order to maintain a clear project backlog and well organized sprints.
• Be agile and effective in your ways of working. Always looking to optimize brief intake and process, learning from what works and be willing to flex and drive change.
• You will be the key point of contact for Group HQ, the North America Marketing team (US, Canada & Mexico) and external agency partner for transcreation, digital production and asset management partner.
• Roll-out new resourcing and project management tools defined by Group, and work with regional team to ensure adoption and use.

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of advertising, marketing or creative agency project management experience
• Working within organizations that have an integrated approach to marketing – not a singular channel focus
• Working with partner agencies
• Working with multiple countries/languages a plus
• Organized and action-oriented, able to develop project plans and project manage from kick-off to delivery
• Ability to develop scope of work and manage deliverables/asset lists
• Flexible enough to manage projects in an environment that can be ambiguous and/or rapidly growing and changing
• Able to scope large pieces of work, leading the process of breaking down amorphous problems into deliverable solutions
• Thinks 5-steps ahead – figures out the implications of today’s actions to plan for tomorrow
• Relationship management – comfortable making connections with the cross-functional teams – insights, category, strategy, creative, Group, other COEs
• Roll up your sleeves mentality – willing to challenge yourself to navigate through challenges and solve problems in one minute, and get down into the weeds the next
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Teams and Excel, expert level is a plus!
• Organized and action-oriented, able to develop project plans and project manage from kick-off to delivery
• Ability to develop scope of work and manage deliverables/asset lists
• Flexible enough to manage projects in an environment that can be ambiguous and/or rapidly growing and changing
• Able to scope large pieces of work, leading the process of breaking down amorphous problems into deliverable solutions
• Thinks 5-steps ahead – figures out the implications of today’s actions to plan for tomorrow
• Relationship management – comfortable making connections with the cross-functional teams – insights, category, strategy, creative, Group, other COEs
• Roll up your sleeves mentality – willing to challenge yourself to navigate through challenges and solve problems in one minute, and get down into the weeds the next
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Teams and Excel, expert level is a plus!

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