What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager (Marketing/Communications) D.C. Area ONLY (Full-time) position at Blueprint Creative Group?
Job Type: Full time
Salary is commensurate with experience and would be competitive with what the market sets
Location: Remote (DC area - Northern Virginia or Maryland)
ROLE
Blueprint Creative Group (BP), as strategic planners, address our client’s business objectives using whatever means necessary whether that be business planning and transformation, brand positioning, business development, innovation, training and development, or digital modernization.
Our clients retain us to create business transformation beyond communications planning by discovering which business and marketing KPIs we can improve or impact. To achieve this, our Company is seeking a talented Project Manager to help manage and support a government client.
This role is responsible for managing timelines, deliverables, and projects across different clients while ensuring teams are implementing programs to our highest standards. You’ll work with senior leadership on the project management of active programs, while also ensuring proper staff allocation across the client portfolio. You’ll need to be organized and able to understand where we can pull people in, based on their workload, and identify where additional support is needed on different clients. This role also requires that this person have a strong financial acumen.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Project Management:
- Tracks the work: Creates and manages timelines, tracks status of timeline and team responsibilities, creates weekly status reports
- Ensures compliance with client delivery processes and best practices
- Proposes team resources and team responsibilities
- Partners with team to ensure consistent, high-quality work delivered on strategy, budget and deadlines
- Regularly communicates and follows up on project status to all project stakeholders, including day to day client, agency partners and agency team
- Team management and operations flexibility
Financial Management:
- Develops scopes of work, manage project scope, communicate out of scope activities, and recommend proposed action steps
- Estimates projects correctly
- Creates and manage fee and out of pocket budgets
- Monitors budgets in real-time
- Works with CEO on forecasts
- Ensuring time is being logged correctly
- Manages third-party partners and/or vendor relationships
- Manage finance process including invoice processing, client invoicing, trackers, etc.
QUALIFICATIONS
Any combination of education and experience providing the required skills and knowledge for successful performance would qualify.
- Bachelor’s degree desired
- Project Manager Certification (PMP) preferred
- Four plus years of related work experience
- Ability to drive projects forward, communicate status, meet deadlines and work with minimal supervision and guidance
- Strong analytical, writing, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to be flexible, multi-task, and adaptive in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative self-starter with strong interpersonal skills
- Solid history of leading projects and meeting deadlines
- Workfront Project Management software experience required
