Director of Continuous Improvement leading initiatives and enhancing operations at Zeus Industrial Products. Responsible for strategic improvements across various departments to drive efficiency and excellence.
About the role
- Project Director leading complex integrated projects at Edelman, a global communications firm. Collaborating with teams to manage schedules, deliverables, and ensure project success.
Responsibilities
- Edelman Project Directors lead complex, integrated projects.
- Serving as the common thread on projects, they manage schedules, deliverables, priorities and teams towards flawless execution.
- They are a strategic partner to Account and Specialty leads in project setup and ensure that project deliverables connect with creative intent, while meeting time specifications and budget parameters.
- Own the intake of new work, cutting through the fog to provide counsel on a delivery approach that results in the definition scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, producing top-down and bottom-up estimates that match final deliverables and work effort.
- Lead the development and approval workflow of Statements of Work with Finance, Contracts and Account teams.
- Leverage project management tools and best practices to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates and project financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation.
- Own the delivery of large, complex initiatives independently and with minimal oversight.
- Independently manage risks and provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, raising scope creep and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions; manage SOW change order procedures as warranted.
- Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure projects are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved.
- Drive client discussions related to project plans, setting expectations on due dates needed in order to meet project goals, scope and budgets.
- Partner with Resource Management to establish staff plans, providing clarity that aligns specialty team needs with project future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work.
- Drive workflow among integrated teams, communicating status, next steps and ownership on a regular basis to ensure successful delivery against client assignment and scoped deliverables.
- Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines.
- Contributes to project operations and "the work behind the work" – owning intake, definition and prioritization of new project opportunities, establishing ways of working frameworks/best practices with new teams, and providing input on PM team assignments.
- Directly manage more junior project managers in project-based and/or career growth capacities.
- Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident leadership at all times.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of project management experience in an integrated marketing/PR agency or related industry.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- A self-reliant multi-tasker, with the ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
- A strategic mindset, with a knack for critical thinking and creative, head-on problem solving.
- A bias for action and the unshakeable ability to confidently lead projects and teams through ambiguity.
- A people leader with a 'get things done' and positive mentality.
- A passion for the art and the science of creative problem solving and operational excellence.
- A strong and fearless communicator, with the ability to navigate conflict resolution and influence teams to a desired end goal.
- A positive role model for fostering individual career development and an inclusive team culture.
- Mastery of mid to large-level sized project delivery, from planning through execution.
- Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool) is required.
Benefits
- medical and dental insurance
- vision
- 401K
- life insurance
- disability insurance
- paid time off
- travel assistance
- wellness programing
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