VP, Project Management

GMR Marketing is the Experience Agency Making Unforgettable Stories Born of Humanity, and they are seeking a VP of Project Management to drive operational excellence across their client portfolio. The role involves leading project management efforts, collaborating with teams, and ensuring successful delivery of projects for major brands.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a mission to drive operational excellence across GMR's entire client portfolio
• Transform how teams work together and deliver results
• Work with world-class brands on virtual experiences and large-scale live events
• Plan and scope projects, allocate resources, manage timelines, and drive collaboration
• Deliver reports that matter and enable your team to do their best work
• Establish and maintain project and financial reporting procedures across the portfolio
• Assign projects to your team, matching project complexity with team member strengths
• Identify and remove impediments to project success for your team
• Drive stakeholder management and communications/working ways plan with all parties involved
• Work with cross-capability partners to find solutions to GMR business challenges
• Help drive collaboration and scale for growth opportunities
• Work with clients, partners, and vendors to establish best practice processes
• Partner with business leads to run day-to-day operations while planning and forecasting for the future
• Proactively identify at-risk projects and address issues as needed
• Create, review, and approve project estimates and SOWs before client sign-off
• Monitor project financials to identify potential overruns and take corrective action when needed

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in multi-channel project management- planning, estimating, scenario planning, and detailed scoping programs within an agency
• Establish and maintain project and financial reporting procedures across the portfolio – including scoping, resourcing, change management, and risk management
• Assign projects to your team, matching project complexity with team member strengths and identifying and removing impediments to project success for your team
• Comfortable driving stakeholder management and communications/working ways plan with all parties involved
• Natural leader who can manage up and down
• Built and scaled PM functions
• Comfortable with ambiguity but obsessed with clarity
• Delivered projects for Fortune 500 brands
• Work with all cross-capability partners to find solutions to the unique GMR business challenges
• Help drive collaboration and scale for growth opportunities
• Work with clients, partners, and vendors to establish best practice processes that meet client business needs
• Partner with business leads to run the day-to-day operations while planning and forecasting for the future
• Can dig into the dark corners to extract key information, assumptions, and risks to protect the agency and the integrity of the work
• Comfortable engaging in conflict resolution, ensuring the best quality work gets out the door
• Tracking learnings and opportunities for continuous improvement
• Proactively identify at-risk projects, address and escalate issues as needed
• Create, review, and approve project estimates and SOWs before client sign-off
• Monitor project financials to identify potential overruns, taking corrective action when needed