Location: New York,NY, USA
About the Role
The Associate Director, PM will work on a large Integrated Client, overseeing schedules, developing and maintaining project plans, ensuring project meetings end with clear and actionable conclusions. The Associate Director will work with little oversight and have the autonomy to lead an Integrated Project Management team and ensure all deliverables are met.
What You'll Do
* Work with internal team to develop and manage creative development and production timelines.
* Interfacing regularly with all client levels on Delivery strategy and progress across a piece of integrated business(es)
* Mobilizing and driving the integrated team towards forward progress, action and results.
* Developing and maintaining high levels of team effectiveness (trust, communication, collaboration, productivity, diversity, engagement).
* Building team expertise; supporting development and shares best practices.
* Ensuring high quality delivery process and execution
* Applying standard agency processes to client work and innovating new ways of working which can become agency best practices.
* Create and maintain project status of projects, accounts, and assigned resources.
* Organize and lead weekly team status meeting, stand up meetings, etc.
* Document project evolution and maintain a detailed record of job changes and flag any impacts to project time, deliverables and/or scope.
* Engage in contingency planning and recommend solutions.
* Ensure quality of workflow and adherence to internal production policies and process
* Champion internal systems for higher productivity working.
* Coordinate individuals and teams to develop, create and deliver.
What You'll Need
* Industry experience in working in a fast-paced agency with a focus on creative excellence.
* Have worked on a large client with multiple lines of business or multiple smaller clients.
* 6-8 years of Project Management experience within a creative environment
* Proven leadership skills in managing a robust team.
* Heavy experience with experiential and digital production processes
* Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills
* An appreciation for data and strategy
* Confidence in building project timelines and scopes across different mediums
* Ability to balance and prioritize business objectives.
* A love for sports is a plus
How We'll Support You
Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.
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