Senior Project Associate - Auto Shows/Experiential

We believe in Extraordinary.

Do you have experience in and love planning and executing events?  If yes, then this could be the next role for you! The Senior Project Associate works with our Brand teams to help bring to life all of Jack’s creative sparks and thoughtful insights. You’ll be an integral part of making sure communication within our teams is clear and consistent, keeping them informed every step of the way. You’ll also take brilliant ideas and brilliantly execute them. You are the go-to for making our extraordinary work happen in Jack Morton’s Detroit office.

This Senior Project Associate role will support our automotive client teams with planning and executing marketing initiatives with a focus on Auto Shows nationwide! 

Responsibilities:

Client Management

• Assume accountability for defined client deliverables, ensuring client needs are clearly communicated to internal teams, and that those needs are not only met, but exceeded
• Build and maintain effective client, partner, and team relationships, ensuring that all stakeholder needs are heard, understood, and addressed in a timely way

Project Delivery

• Work with internal and external partners to develop and execute excellent consumer experiences
• Assist in assuring comprehensive results summaries are completed
• Provide support for seamless onsite execution
• Have the ability to quickly learn and understand the “processes” involved to deliver GM promotional programs and to consistently adhere to these guidelines.

Budget Management

• Assist in managing project budgets, ensuring revenue of assigned scope / programs is captured
• Work closely with Production Services team to oversee coordination on invoices and vendor payments

Project Management

• Ensure that the highest possible project quality is always delivered, using:
• Extremely strong organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Crystal-clear communication skills
• Ensure that client needs are solved by the project deliverables
  

How you can support our culture:

• You enjoy and succeed at working REALLY well with others
• You support and contribute to a positive and productive cultural environment
• You take your work seriously – but not yourself
• Demonstrates an understanding of the value of creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment.
• Actively supports and engages in creating and sustaining a workplace that fosters creativity and innovation.

What we require:

• 2-4 years’ experience required
• Strong project management, organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
• Experience planning a range of large and small scale events, where multiple stakeholders, internal, and external partners are involved; strong preference to experience in working with global markets
• Willing to travel up to 15-25% and work weekends if necessary 
• Demonstrated production competencies:  client focus, accountability for results, team effectiveness, developing others, organizational sophistication, attention to detail, flexibility and professional confidence.

Jack Morton and Genuine are equal opportunity employers; we strongly value diversity at our companies. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. In 2020, Jack Morton and Genuine, as part of Interpublic Group (IPG), have been named to the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index (GEI), and Jack Morton has once again been designated a Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Workplace Equality by the Human Rights Campaign in their Corporate Equality Index.

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