Project Manager

Title: Senior Project Manager

Duration: 1 year; with possible extensions

Location is St Paul, MN (Onsite position)

NOTE : Need Locals for this position Non Locals won't work for this position.

Must haves: Workfront experience, resume/email management projects

Description:

Looking for a Senior Project Manager to help with the Retail Line of Business within Goldmind. This person will be responsible for managing projects for various retail clients.

Essential Responsibilities:

- Provides project management thought-leadership, oversight and support on all project deliverables

- Leads with a solution-focused approach to encourage and justify best practice, and ensure process

and project controls are followed unless there is adequate justification for an exception

- Leads and manages large integrated projects throughout all stages of digital creative deliverable

execution, from conception to delivery

- Facilitates digital creative requirements gathering to ensure stakeholder needs are clearly

understood, in line with defined processes

- Participates in capacity planning across creative teams to provide a clear view of utilization and

bandwidth

- Establishes a strategy of continuous risk management that enables proactive decisions and actions

throughout a project’s execution

- Encourages positive thinking and considers key partner and business needs in decision making

- Builds and encourages strong relationships with team members and key partners

- Partners with Account Directors and Account Managers to manage regular portfolio business reviews

with key stakeholders

- Collaborates on preparation of digital creative marketing recommendations, strategies and actions

for partners

- Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Bachelor degree. In lieu of degree, HS Diploma/GED and 6 years of experience leading digital creative

projects in an agency environment

- 4+ years of project management experience

- Experience managing and mentoring cross-functional team members with high integrity and ability

to inspire and motivate a diverse team toward a common goal

- Experience leading digital creative projects and managing resources for an advertising agency (either

external or in-house agencies)

Desired Characteristics:

- Understanding of the digital creative process and how to balance with project management and

workflow

- Experience navigating large and complex organizations, including gaining access to key executives

and stakeholders and successfully managing relationship building dynamics and processes

- Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills

- 3+ years experience using Project Management Software (Workfront preferred)