Executive - Communications and Project Management
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About the Role
Publicis Groupe seeks a junior project manager to handle ongoing projects, reporting to the Communications and Project Manager. The role involves planning campaigns, managing resources, monitoring quality, and ensuring deadlines.
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Responsibilities
- Submit project deliverables and prepare status reports
- Establish effective project communication plans and ensure execution on time
- Plan campaigns, resources, monitoring, and quality control until project close
- Troubleshoot issues that could slow down process efficiencies and cut costs
- Outsource and find freelancers when needed
- Evaluate post project and identify successful and unsuccessful elements
- Facilitate change requests and inform parties of impacts on schedule and budget
- Enforce deadlines and maintain efficiency across teams
- Schedule project related meetings
- Allocate tasks and responsibilities to PMs and traffic
- Encourage communication among team members
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, management, advertising, marketing, or related field
- 6 months to 1 year experience with project management theory and best practices
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and decision making skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
- Fluent in English and Arabic
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Role Overview
- A communications & project management executive is a junior project manager responsible for handling a company's ongoing projects.
- They report to the communications and Project manager and director and work closely with the communication consultants and the creative services manager.
- They're the core team for all 4 pillars (strategy, creative, content hub, production...).
- They work for the PMs to ensure that all project requirements, deadlines, and schedules are on track in addition to playing the lead role in planning the campaigns, resources, monitoring, and quality control until a project is closed.
Responsibilities
- Submitting project deliverables, preparing status reports, and establishing effective project communication plans as well as the proper execution until the end product.
- Working with the creative services manager and aligning on projects timelines
- Managing the PMs and communications consultants on clients projects and organizing their projects from approval of concepts till the end.
- Troubleshooting issues that could slow down the process efficiencies and cut costs
- Outsourcing and finding freelancers when needed.
- Establishing effective project communication plans (CPS) and ensuring their execution on time
- Following the project's progress and bypassing problems
- Evaluating a post project and identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements by preparing status reports
- Submitting project deliverables and ensuring that they adhere to quality standards
- Facilitating change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
- Enforcing deadlines and maintains efficiency across teams.
- Scheduling project related meetings
Technical & Product
- Proven experience in project management.
- Ability to lead project teams of various sizes and see them through to completion.
- Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies.
- Experience with project management tools (such as Asana, Monday.com, Trello, Basecamp ...)
- Ability to complete projects in a timely manner.
- Budget management experience.
- Ability to develop, implement, and review policies and procedures.
- Ability to oversee budgeting, reporting, planning, and auditing.
- Ability to address problems and opportunities for the company.
Business Acumen & Operational Efficiency
- Working with the creative services manager and aligning on projects timelines
- Managing the PMs and communications consultants on clients projects and organizing their projects from approval of concepts till the end.
- Troubleshooting issues that could slow down the process efficiencies and cut costs
- Outsourcing and finding freelancers when needed.
- Establishing effective project communication plans (CPS) and ensuring their execution on time
- Following the project's progress and bypassing problems
Candidate Requirements
- A successful candidate should have a bachelor’s degree in business, management, advertising, marketing, or related field
- 6 months to 1 year experience with project management theory and best practices
- Excellent organizational, prioritization, and decision making skills.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
- Fluent in English and Arabic.
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