What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Program Management position at Ketchum?
Overview:
We are looking for a Vice President, Program Management to help manage and support our clients.
This role is responsible for managing timelines, deliverables, and projects across a variety of 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.
Our desired candidate is diligent, organized, passionate, compassionate, and self-motivated. And agency experience is preferred.
About the job:
Program Management:
Tracks the work: Creates and manages timelines, tracks status of timeline and team responsibilities, creates weekly hotsheet
Ensures compliance with client delivery processes and best practices
Proposes teams 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 Client Directors and Financial Directors to update financial 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
Must have ad agency experience
Project Manager Certification (PMP) preferred
10+ 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
Adobe Workfront experience is a differentiator
Salary : $140,000 - $165,000
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