Expedia Group is Hiring a Project Manager Near Seattle, WA

Project Manager

Expedia Group’s Global Marketing Communications team is dedicated to developing and carrying out innovative and effective global marketing across all brands. Within this organization, the Project Management team is focused on annual and quarterly project forecasting, resourcing and prioritization. As one of the team, you will lead the efforts for the creative hub, to own project timelines, drive creative workflow and maintain an overview of all live projects.

We are seeking an enthusiastic person who can contribute in a team environment and wants to be part of an evolving organization. This position requires a self-motivated, flexible individual with strong communication, organization and leadership skills!

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Brand Team’s project management function ensuring there is defined and consistent process, documentation and workflow

• Steward day-to-day project management of multiple concurrent projects, serving as a daily point of leadership for the cross-functional partners and the Brand Team

• Ensure the soundness of a creative project through reporting, project tracking, resource needs identification and analysis

• Utilize team feedback, retrospectives, and metrics to identify areas of opportunity and work with your team to continuously improve

• Integrate Agile principles into Brand Team development practices and Trello or Jira administration

• Constructively and effectively negotiate sensitive issues with functional and cross-functional team members within a project team

• Being familiar with channel assets like paid social, organic social, broadcast, programmatic, product marketing etc..

• Maintain oversight of all active projects' status within, both internally and externally, and able to highlight any concerns swiftly

• Provide a constantly up to date status to leadership of key high effort live projects including creative review milestones, stakeholder management, production timelines and launch dates

• Keep oversight of the maintenance and distribution of weekly project status meetings and "hot sheets” of priority projects

• Produce, maintain and distribute project tracking tools to include road maps, project scope, creative review trackers and production schedules

• Book project meetings, ensuring the right attendees are present and meetings start and finish on time (take notes during creative reviews and circulate after to key stakeholders)

• Global work across US and International

Who you are:

• You have prior experience in project management within a creative environment, Agency background highly recommended

• Strong process orientation with a demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams

• Have project management skills and is successful at both creating and implementing new process, behavior and ways of working

• Strong communication skills, written, verbal and visual

• Disciplined but not rigid

• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to build structure and process across cross-functional teams

• Practiced in servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement and empowerment

• Experience working with stakeholders from across multiple subject areas to prioritize and mitigate issues

• Ability to shift approaches when needed in response to unexpected events and circumstances

• Thrives on identification of key processes to gain efficiencies, scale and actively simplifies complexity

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About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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