The American Cancer Society is dedicated to ending cancer and is seeking a Marketing Project Manager to orchestrate and execute integrated marketing projects. This role involves managing multiple complex projects, ensuring collaboration across various teams and stakeholders, and delivering projects on time and within budget.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple projects, across varying business portfolios from the initial intake and strategic planning through final implementation and debrief. Oversee the integration of marketing tactics across all channels (paid, social, email, web, etc.) for cohesive campaigns
- Develop and update comprehensive project plans, outlining all tasks, timelines, budget, and resource needs
- Analyze project progress and strategically adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure adherence to requirements
- Incorporate quality standards throughout the project process and conduct thorough checks on deliverables to ensure high standards and strategic alignment
- Facilitate project retrospective reviews, documenting key learnings and ensuring proper project close-out
- Prioritize incoming requests in collaboration with leaders to ensure resources are managed efficiently and meet strategic objectives
- Anticipate and mitigate potential project risks and bottlenecks, developing proactive contingency plans for unforeseen challenges
- Ensure projects stay within established budget and timeline parameters, implementing solutions to keep work on track
- Act as the main project point of contact, providing consistent status reports and updates to key internal and external stakeholders
- Monitor and manage timely communication and follow-up across all internal workflow software
- Own key communication devices, including status emails/meetings, quarterly toolkits, and holistic marketing project calendars
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 4+ years of project management experience in a marketing department, organization, or agency
- Understanding of integrated marketing campaign execution, including knowledge of the planning, creative, and production processes for digital, video, social, and traditional content
- Experience leading multi-channel initiatives, building rapport and collaborating with diverse groups of individuals without direct supervision
- Impeccable interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to work strategically and collaboratively across departments
- An effective, versatile, action-oriented individual with the ability to operate in a fast-paced deadline-oriented environment, managing complex and multiple assignments
- High proficiency in project management tools and software and Microsoft Office suite
- Project Management Certification preferred