Senior Project Manager, Performance Creative

Company Description

Dentsu Creative US is comprised of audacious thinkers and award-winning collaborators across the United States who blend local knowledge with global expertise. Choosing substance over stunts, our Modern Creative mandate is about unlocking sustained growth and holistic impact for brands in ways that Create Culture, Change Society and Invent the Future. Our borderless approach allows us to assemble the best talent around each brief, tapping into the expertise of the 9,000+ people across dentsu's global creative network. This integrated model also allows our talent to learn about and explore the breadth of career possibilities within Dentsu Creative.

Job Description

As the Senior Project Manager, Performance Creative you will lead a large portfolio of clients and meaningfully contributes with the Performance Creative Service Line. You will oversee multiple relationships between the agency and the client. You will partner with Merkle client leadership to ensure that client expectations across their accounts are met, especially focused on creative delivery. You will oversee the financial reporting process for their portfolios and monitoring utilization and monthly forecasts. You will be responsible for training, managing, and motivating the project team, and resolving team conflicts. This is a remote position reporting to Group SVP, Creative Client Engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to document project scope, deliverables and estimated resources needed.
• Provide thought leadership to the client and team to grow and deliver based on a client's evolving needs
• Responsible for retention of existing client business and organic growth within portfolio
• Ensure that client accounts remain in scope and meet financial requirements, delivery timelines and quality requirements
• Oversee portfolio financials for their account including creation of SOWs and pricing, Opening of project inD365, delivering monthly forecast to the business
• Oversee communications between multiple stakeholders and serves as the escalation contact regarding account needs
• Assist in business development efforts to create project proposals, RFP's, estimates and schedules
• Own client budgets and staffing requirements
• Own portfolio resourcing
• Ensure delivery of all requirements under SOWs and client agreements
• Develop creative briefs for projects
• Guide new project processes and ensure implementation across the teams
• Analyze weekly and monthly hours report and flag concerns

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in project management, marketing, advertising, business management or related area of study
• 7-9 years of experience as a Project Manager or similar position responsible for defining and managing project scope, timelines, profitability and effective delivery of products or services
• Experience managing $2M+ portfolio
• Experience in managing delivery of client-facing and internally facing products or services.
• PMI or PMP certification or similar from an accredited organization preferred

Additional Information

The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000 - $152,375. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

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About dentsu 
Dentsu is the network designed for what’s next, helping clients predict and plan for disruptive future opportunities in the sustainable economy. Taking a people-centered approach to business transformation, dentsu combines Japanese innovation with a diverse, global perspective to drive client growth and to shape society www.dentsu.com. 

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

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