Director, Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Drive efficiencies in all project deliverables across multiple projects, simultaneously
• Support and manage a team of project managers, supporting multiple brands, projects, and timelines
• Forge ongoing partnership with Resource Planning to support partner allocations and manage resources by project and account, including any temp and/or freelancing needs
• Own, maintain and report on project plans, status, and hot-lists for every project and/or account assigned 
• Schedule and lead weekly internal/external (client facing) status meetings
• Track key decisions and prioritizations that impact project budget, cadence, scope, and/or timelines
• Facilitate the adherence to established processes to ensure key milestones, artifacts and ceremonies are completed
• Collaborate with account management to define scopes, deliverables and estimations for all new projects or out of scope work
• Continuously provide transparency with key stakeholders (internal and external) to mitigate risk to budget, scope and timelines 
• Ensure all project objectives and deliverables are clearly documented, approved, and delivered to meet clients’ needs and expectations
• Manage smaller Barkley internal projects and/or initiatives, while maintaining existing client projects, deliverables and timelines
• Provide expertise and senior leadership support in our new business process
• Support teams to define and measure project success using metrics, tools and resources 
• Assist with interviewing, training and onboarding new Brand Operations partners 
• Institute the adoption and adherence of new/existing processes and standards agency wide

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university required
• Minimum of 10 years+ of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Desire to coach, mentor and lead team members
• Experience assembling and managing schedules with multiple dependencies and stakeholders simultaneously  
• Passion for empowering partners and clients with a seamless experience through process improvement and standardization 
• A professional presentation and strong personal presence are required
• Must possess outstanding interpersonal skills as well an articulate, friendly, “whatever it takes” service-minded attitude, along with a strong work ethic  
• Cross-media experience preferred
• PMP, Six-sigma, ScrumMaster certifications are highly desired
• Must possess positivity, high energy, and a solid confidence level
• Ability to establish and build productive relationships quickly with diverse personalities in order to meet adapting project demands 
• Excellent analytics mentality - telling stories with data and facts