At Arc, you'll work with a team of smart marketers and gain global marketing insights, as we share our capabilities across 37 offices in 31 countries. And talk about our marquis list of clients! We partner with Disney, Kellogg, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, Purina, Visa, Whirlpool, and the list goes on... We're also part of Paris-based Publicis Groupe, the world's fourth-largest marketing and communications company.



As a member of the Arc Worldwide team, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact on a wide array of marketing practice areas, share ideas with some of the best minds in the business, and meet creative and professional challenges. Are you ready?



The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for leading efforts to deliver large, complex projects on time and within the established estimate. They may also serve as "leads" on large client accounts, working with the Account Management team to nurture client relationships and traffic project work across larger teams of multiple Project Mangers. The Sr. Project Manager has excellent documentation experience and superior technical knowledge, and is both internally team-focused and externally client-facing as required. Sr. Project Managers may be responsible for supervising Project Coordinators and/or Project Managers, and may assist in trafficking project work and managing resource assignments.



Key responsibilities of the Senior Project Manager:



Collaborates with the project team to identify strategies and solutions that will best meet the client's needs within established constraint

Works with account team as well as any and all members of assigned project team to estimate costs and timing for tasks such as project strategy, functional design, visual design, technology requirements, etc., utilizing established estimating process and tools

Actively participates in all project activities, collaborating on the content and presentation of key client deliverables as required to ensure relevancy, strategy, quality and timelines

Responsible for managing project financial lifecycle, including estimates, status reporting, revenue forecasts, invoicing, etc

Creates and maintains project documentation such as estimates, project plans, proposals, statements of work, status reports (internal and external), change requests, functional specifications, etc.

Sets the standards for project work

Accountable for flawless execution in own work and that of direct reports; pushes for same with project team members

Identifies and recommends opportunities to improve work processes



Specifically:

Manage the Maintenance and Enhancement Release Channel for a division of Arc Worldwide - affiliate of Leo Burnett Worldwide

Includes:

Weekly/Bi-Weekly interface with Account Executives/Representatives to prioritize new initiatives and defect resolution

Select and bundle these initiatives for execution

Work with Developers, Quality Assurance Testing Group, Experience Planners and Creative Designers to:

Solicit and validate estimates

Develop and execute bundles/releases

Understand the dymanic of our infrastructure service provider

Three primary environments: 2 Pre-prod / 1 Poduction

Several local pre-production environments

Manage two project managers that oversee three primary brands

Trouble shoot issues directly with IBM, Local Execution Teams and Client



Requirements



Minimum 4 years experience as a Technical Project Manager, website development a plus.

BA Degree, PMP a plus

Must have delivered projects using SDLC methodology

Must be able to work in a fast-pace environment accommodating and reporting on the impacts from changing technical requirements.

Must have Technology experience in managing multi-channel environment

Familiar or expertise with IBM Webspere, Java/J2EE and .Net

Must know MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project

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