Project Manager - Two Rivers Marketing

Company Location: Two Rivers Marketing - Des Moines, IA
Position Type: Hybrid
Position Schedule: Full Time
Education Level: 4 Year Degree

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

The primary responsibility of the Project Manager is to manage all client projects through their lifecycle, including scoping proposals and timelines, creating estimates, and managing budgets and work-back schedules. The Project Manager works closely with the Client Services Coordinator to facilitate consistent communication between the agency s integrated marketing and client service teams, ensuring the on-time delivery of all client projects. The Project Manager is responsible for being the agency advocate and effectively managing their projects on-budget, on-time, and on-quality (tactical).

The Project Manager works closely with vendors/contractors assigned to their projects, managing them within scope and budget as well as ensuring that their components are executed on-quality (tactical) and on-time in support of the overarching project. An effective problem solver on a day-to-day basis, the Project Manager must be adept at anticipating problems and recognizing opportunities.

WHAT OUR PROJECT MANAGER WILL DO ONCE THEY'RE HERE

• Drives completion of onboarding checklist, including gathering client inventory/assets
• Manages project timelines
• Manages all projects on-quality (tactical), on-time and on-budget
• Manages the consistent successful facilitation of projects from estimation through launch and ongoing execution
• Manages project-related freelancers daily
• Ensures that vendor quotes align with project budgets
• Ensures that all POs are within budgeted scope of project
• Maintains and monitors project budgets and schedules daily
• Ensures that team stays within agreed-upon budget and informs all parties of any changes to scope/assumptions/issues that arise
• Proactively manages and updates project work-back schedules
• Manages tactical quality of all client deliverables
• Maintains campaigns/projects in Workamajig and monday.com
• Ensures that all content is accurately entered into templated digital platforms (emails, website updates, blogs, and articles)
• Owns internal agency advocate communication
• Manages project transactions (reviews and adjusts) on a weekly basis
• Demonstrates basic knowledge of program/campaign workflow
• Maintains deep understanding of project workflow
• Other duties as assigned

WHAT OUR PROJECT MANAGER WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

• College degree in marketing, communications, business or related field (preferred)
• 2 years of project management experience, marketing agency experience is a plus
• Aptitude in Microsoft Word, Excel
• Experience developing work breakdown structures, creating timelines, and driving successful execution of milestones on-quality, on-budget, and on-schedule
• Experience collaborating with team members to create detailed project estimates aligned with proposed scopes of work
• Experience in project financial management and analysis
• Experience with monday.com, Workamajig, PageProof, or other integrated operations tools a plus
• Experience with predictive modeling and customer segmentation

  
  

WHY TWO RIVERS MARKETING (A DIVISION OF VGM, GROUP)

Professionally, we're big enough to give you the opportunity to work with global B2B brands and move up in the ranks in a stable, growing company. Culturally, 2RM does things differently than typical shops. As an employee-owned agency, we put our associates first. Our commitment to work/life balance is like none other. At 2RM, you don't feel owned by your job. Like we always say, you won't live here. You'll thrive here. Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers and work with team members in the work environment we've created.

This job description reflects the general duties of the job but is not a detailed description of all duties which may be inherent to the position. Reasonably related additional duties may be assigned to the individual Associate.

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