Manager, Project Management

Company Description

 

Publicis New York is a full-service communications agency with a focus on creating culturally relevant consumer platforms in broadcast, digital advertising, web development, social, CRM and experiential channels. Our healthcare team has over twenty years of growing leading healthcare brands across a broad range of categories including vaccines, immunology, women’s health, food/nutrition and oncology. We have a passion for uncovering the cultural opportunity for every health brand and we bring insights from our diverse client roster, including P&G, Citi, Walmart, Nestle, Abbott, L’Oreal, T-Mobile, to our health brands.

 

As part of the Publicis agency network, we strive to “Lead the Change” for our client’s businesses and be their preferred creative partners in their marketing transformations. We believe that change has become the defining characteristic in today’s business environment. Creating leading strategies and powerful ideas that allow our clients’ brands to become unique, irreplaceable, in control and ahead is our purpose. You have to lead the change, if you don’t want to be led by change. Are you ready to lead the change?

Overview

Our Project Management team enables and executes great work in the smartest way possible.  We are passionate about transforming ideas into results as we constantly negotiate, organize and understand the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and technology.

To help with this, we’re looking for an outstanding Manager in Project Management – a digital producer with a passion for using collaboration, the creative process and emerging technologies to produce world-class interactive experiences for our clients. You’ll help create dynamic digital experiences and integrated campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Our project work includes experience design and development, digital and social media campaigns, digital partnership activations and promotions, eCommerce and CMS implementations, CRM programs and branded content. As a Manager, you will not only help develop and execute the plans that allow our teams to create exciting work, but will also supervise junior project managers and oversee large programs of work. To succeed, you will need to be a creative advocate, strive to be proactive, have a passion for technology, maintain a deep project management toolkit, and exercise excellent communication skills. Sound like you? Read on. 

Job Responsibilities

Day to day, your role will include:

• Collaborate and lead complex cross-capability projects and integrated program management
• Lead client discussions on project plans to ensure client understands project flow and due dates needed in order to meet end goals
• Produce top-down and bottom-up scopes, project schedules, resource plans and risk & change management plans, utilizing appropriate tools
• Participate in new business RFI or RFP requests when necessary
• Begin management, leadership, and effective communication trainings
• Contribute to proper training and onboarding processes for new team members
• Demonstrate strong written and oral presentation skills
• Sets goals for yourself and may manage multiple direct reports to set goals and conduct regular reviews

• Setting up projects and programs for success (right team, properly planned, client alignment)
• Keeping clients and internal teams moving in the same direction
• Effectively handling risk, escalating when needed and assisting the team in resolution
• Contributing to the development of methodologies, standards and best practices to streamline processes and create efficiencies for the Project Management capability and train team members when applicable
• Experiencing something new every day

Qualifications

We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:

• A four-year degree
• 4-5 years of Project Management, Marketing or related experience
• Mastery of small to mid-level projects (i.e., email, OLA, landing page updates) 
• PMP and/or CSM Certification (or desire to get this)
• Working knowledge of enterprise tools (JIRA, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Slack, Trello)
• Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation

You are the right person if you:

• Demonstrate grit and extreme ownership
• Exude positivity
• Aren’t afraid to share your ideas
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities
• Are self-reliant and motivated
• Communicate fearlessly

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. 

 

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive.  Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K,  as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

 

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

 

Compensation Range: $73,910- $102,200 annually.. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/15.

 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.