Marketing Project Manager

Our global airline client's Integrated Operations team is actively seeking an Initiative Project Manager to ensure successful delivery of strategic end-to-end initiatives on time and on budget. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with internal client teams and external agency partners to execute a wide range of large-scale Marketing Campaigns, including experiential activations, email journeys, omnichannel campaigns, and more. You’ll partner with specialty Creative and Channel Enablement Project Managers to ensure each project has both a high-level view (your role) and a deeper/more specific view (their roles) to support the teams executing the work.

Specific tasks include partnering with strategy leads on brief development timelines, advising on scope feasibility, skillfully negotiating sensitive timelines, acting as a key point of contact for inter-departmental stakeholders, and supporting the initiative team’s needs. This person will report to the Manager, PMO, and work collaboratively with the entire department across the Commercial; Brand; and Strategy, Planning, and Operations organizations. Your contributions will play a vital role in driving successful marketing initiatives.

Overview: Must be ATL-based and open to 2-3 days/week onsite

Responsibilities

• Creating and maintaining project plans with cross-team dependencies within project management tool, Workfront

o Includes identifying key elements/deliverables, and plotting out an overarching project plan in close collaboration/partnership with the strategy lead and program sponsor for each supported initiative

•  Keeping a high-level understanding of the full initiative scope
•  Connecting the dots to ensure the right internal and inter-departmental stakeholders are present for the right discussions and decision points to ensure alignment on goals, strategy, approvals processes, outcomes, and beyond
•  Look for efficiencies in timeline through cross-collaboration with the Creative and Channel Enablement Project Managers
•  Ensure external agency work is accounted for and represented in the project plan
•  Escalate and work to mitigate risks
•  Keep Integrated Operations leaders and peers informed on team bandwidth issues
•  Act as the strategy lead’s right hand, including but not limited to leading integrated status calls, curating action items and recaps, building relationships, maintaining and communicating timelines, and escalating risks/issues

Qualifications

• 4-6+ years of proven project management and/or account management experience in an agency or in-house setting
•  Must have experience and knowledge using project management tools, preferably Workfront
•  Be willing to work in a hybrid on-site and work from home setting
•  Ability to operate in a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment
•  Self-starter, hungry to learn processes quickly
•  Adaptable and flexible to try things and do what is needed to help the team
•  Understanding of generally how long marketing processes take, including but not limited to omni-channel campaigns, event activations, and email journeys
•  Knowledge in digital, retail, or loyalty marketing a plus

Contract Length: Long-term, 12 month contract with the opportunity to extend

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