Vice President Director, Media Project Management

Company Description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

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 Vice President, Director in Project Management – an integration expert with a passion for using collaboration to drive cohesion across both creative and media planning cycles, striving for flawless execution of brand and performance media campaigns. And we achieve this by establishing integrated connection points by way of campaign timelines, workflows and process documents, driving seamless execution of plans from conception to completion. 

Our project work includes integrated management of planning and executional phases across digital and social media campaigns, digital partnership activations and promotions across external creative teams and 3^rd party publishers and delivering operational excellence through day-to-day task management to deliver unparalleled value for both internal and client teams.

The ideal candidate is a dot connector, has an analytic mindset, problem-solving skills, and the ability to organize and track multiple projects simultaneously. They should be proactive, resourceful, agile, and a creative problem solver. They will foster client relationships and partner with the client to work through process changes, escalations, and forward-thinking ideas.

As a Vice President, Director, you will not only help develop and execute the plans that allow our teams to create exciting work – you’ll also supervise a team of project managers and oversee large programs of work, if not an entire account.  To succeed, you will act as a connected thread across media and creative teams, strive to be proactive, have a passion for media planning and execution, maintain a deep project management toolkit and exercise excellent leadership skills.  Sound like you? Read on.

Job Responsibilities

As a Vice President, Director on the Project Management Team, you will:

• Lead efforts across cross-disciplinary team to deliver the estimated business value of an approved program
• Provide transformational leadership: leverage our existing experience, relationships, knowledge, and infrastructure to:
  
  • Deliver the Power of One by expanding our Groupe Capabilities to Unlock Growth.
  • Client Relationships: build and maintain relationships with client-side Agency Relations/ procurement, and Marketing Operations leads.
  • Drive change management: Lead initiatives to evolve how we scale and transform the business leveraging best-in-class tools and processes for and ever-changing and retail-paced business. 
• Facilitate, track and monitor programs, activities and roadmaps and scope
• Define and adjust processes to meet project/business needs and look for ways to improve processes while coaching teams to do the same
• Lead integrated account planning sessions
• Ensure internal stakeholders are kept appraised of program status
• Participate in new business RFI or RFP requests when necessary
• Contribute to capability model definition and management
• Demonstrate strong written and oral presentation skills
• Develop and articulate compelling decks and lead trainings
• Manage multiple direct reports and set career and capability goals with them
• Enforce team compliance to high company standards and professionalism
• Participate in team and cross-capability recruiting, interviewing and staffing
• Attend training seminars and continuing education as offered

Day-to-day, your role includes:

• Being responsible for the direction, oversight and outcome of a large account, program or process
• Problem-solving program and project issues; assisting teams in resolution and successfully leading large teams to develop risk mitigation plans
• Working with capability leads to understand business needs and helping identify and solving staffing-mix issues to meet business goals
• Working with clients to establish best practice processes that meet client business needs
• Demonstrating the ability to deliver constructive feedback while outlining and facilitating development plans where needed
• Experiencing something new every day

Qualifications

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

• A four-year degree
• 10-12 years of Project Management, Marketing or related experience
• Mastery of large-level projects and programs
• PMP and/or CSM Certification (or desire to get this)
• Working knowledge of enterprise tools (JIRA, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Slack, Trello)

The Right Person:

A Transformation Leader: 

• Energetic, persuasive and authentic. A magnet who inspires those around them to crave future-facing evolution, and uses positive influence to affect the change to help us all get there.

An Integrator

• Understands different collaboration principles, and models, and can architect and implement them based on the needs of the business. Able to connect and bring the best of our organisation together to activate meaningful transformation through relevant and purposeful integration.

Thinks big, acts small:

• Sees the bigger picture, and thinks strategically about how to our goals. But understands that it’s our collective daily actions that will get us there, and isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves.

Growth and commercially minded:

• A proven track record for driving growth. Including a good understanding of business models and trends, as well as the ability to identify and seize opportunities that move the business towards strategic goals as well as realise easy wins.

Agile and Resilient

• Is action oriented and full of energy for new challenges. Leans in to change and is a nimble leader. Pushes self and others to be the best they can be and drives change with resilience whilst not sweating the small stuff. Sets a tone of integrity during times of pressure and is collaborative in their solutions.

Collaborative Mindset

• A proven collaborator within a large business, who can coordinate and influence a collective team-based client relationship across complex matrix structures, organisations and different cultures. Adept at managing significant stakeholders across agency teams and able / willing to travel as required.

Got what it takes? We’d love to hear from you.

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