What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at Telegraph Creative?
At Telegraph, we don’t work in siloed departments, but rather highly collaborative teams. Everyone is accountable for creating award-winning, nationally-recognized work that builds and drives our clients’ business.Telegraph is seeking an experienced Project Manager who can oversee and direct multiple projects at a time, ensuring these projects meet or exceed internal & client expectations and are delivered on-time and on-budget. Impeccable communication and organizational abilities are a prerequisite for consideration.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead day-to-day management of digitally-based projects in collaboration with sales & account teams and with direct engagement with the client, creative and development teams
- Responsible for helping to prioritize projects and deliverables; keeper of the creative team’s schedules and owner of resourcing and workflow management
- Fuel inter-department relationship and liaison between account leadership, creative and other functions
- Develop project critical paths and timelines
- Manage budgets, completing projects within estimated hours and costs
- Manages/works with vendor/third party relationships as necessary (i.e. hosting, stock photo services, and video production)
- Maintain and update necessary reporting
- Quality control and mitigate risk
- Internal systems expert and keeper of process
- Contribute to ongoing process refinements and ways of working
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, business or related field
- 3-5 years of marketing or advertising experience, agency experience preferred
- 2-4 years experience in project management, coordinating or related field
- Strong background in digital media including custom website page development, native advertising, digital display ads, search, email, and social media
- Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to manage time, adhere to strict timelines, multitask and work well under pressure
- Detail orientation and ability to ensure that projects are developed in line with client’s brand style and guidelines
- Proactive nature in the seeking of work/responsibility
- Exhibits strong listening skills and the ability to tactfully communicate position on relevant issues to reach team consensus
- Dependability in execution of work and as member of assigned team
- Enthusiastic, solution-oriented attitude in accepting work/new challenges
- Effective interpersonal skills working well across functions
- Conscientious work ethic
