B2B Creative Senior Project Manager

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

The Senior Project Manager (Sr. PM) is responsible for managing a line of business with multiple projects. You are responsible for prioritizing projects, tracking, and communicating scope and reporting, load balance planning for resources, and communicating status and risk to high-level clients. You must exhibit outstanding project management and client communication skills in achieving the highest possible standards in client service. You need basic knowledge of clients’ business challenges to provide communications solutions and project management execution. You will also be expected to participate in creative development meetings to ensure final output is on mark. In addition, you will provide project management follow-through and accurate delivery.

• Partners with the lead Account and Creative Directors to lead and direct teams on paths forward, problem solving, and prioritizations.
• Develops and maintains solid client relationships; encourages a collaborative approach with departmental team members.
• Educates clients on cost savings and leveraging opportunities aligned with their marketing efforts.
• Partners with outside agencies in managing clients’ promotional and marketing efforts.
• Collaborates on creative development and direction with client, design and production teams.
• Provides input on creative briefs on complex projects and interprets them for project teams in order to lead communication strategies and implement marketing efforts.
• Obtains feedback and translates that feedback for the project team.
• Reviews client change requests and responds with schedule/cost impacts along with alternatives.
• Manages expectations with clients and departmental teams.
• Negotiates timelines and budgets and ensures that all deadlines are maintained.
• Ensures all regulatory, legal, compliance and branding guidelines are followed.
• Provides final sign-off on projects to ensure compliance with creative brief and project specifications.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...

You’re the type of person who sees the big picture and looks to make the biggest impact possible. You have an eye for design and a business focus. You are creative and innovative, but understand when to stay within the lines. You’re comfortable working and communicating with all types of people, and they listen to you. You’re able to understand client priorities and translate them into business plans. You’re organized and detail-oriented and you’ve got a knack for spotting errors. You take a lot of pride in your work, and that’s why people count on you to deliver.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in a project management role either in an external or internal advertising agency.
• Experience working on a business to business account.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, advertising, or business.
• Experience managing budgets in excess of 2.5 million dollars.
• Project management experience preferably including print, direct marketing campaigns, online, promotions, TV, and radio.
• Strong knowledge of the benefits of the above communication channels, with the ability to match the channel with the client’s communication needs.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams, both through idea generation and assessment of ideas generated by others.
• Team player with excellent relationship building skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills.
• Creative project management skills, highly organized and ability to multitask effectively.
• Ability to gain client trust and effectively manage client expectations.
• Strong knowledge of the creative process, as well as design and print/web production.
• Successful track record at client service in a marketing or creative environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Verizon requires new hires to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Verizon provides reasonable accommodations consistent with legal requirements (e.g., for medical, religious, or state law recognized reasons).