Project Manager

Spark is a company that delivers brand solutions to create impactful brand perceptions across consumer touchpoints. They are seeking a Project Manager with experience in the creative services industry to manage B2B marketing initiatives primarily in the medical technology sector, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and monitor project or program schedules, progress, and costs to ensure that expected results are delivered on time and within budget
• Create, maintain, and update project plans
• Maintain and publish a project dashboard/calendars to communicate the status of projects
• Schedule project kick-off meetings/reviews with stakeholders
• Provide functional expertise to assess potential schedule risks and operational impact
• Assist Account Lead with project estimating, in time growing into estimating independently
• Create invoices and submit to clients monthly
• Daily tracking with clients to keep projects moving and on time, connecting with clients and team to balance internal workloads
• Work with clients to obtain assets and other materials needed by the design and copywriting teams; proactively pursue until obtained
• Communicate and drive issue resolutions to closure both with internal and client teams
• Work with internal team and external suppliers to deliver against objectives and meet client expectations
• Be comfortable on video calls, act and look professional
• Openly support Spark’s vision and contribute to the company’s overall success

Requirements:

• Prior experience and a passion for managing B2B marketing materials creation and production (graphics, video, content, trade shows, etc.)
• Have 4+ years Project/Program Management experience, ideally in a medical or hi-tech products' B2B creative agency environment
• Experience managing budgets and creating project estimates
• Comfortable working directly with clients, building strong relationships
• Be a self-starter and independently manage projects and processes
• Be an avid learner of new processes and systems
• See the big picture, yet get granular with the details
• Have impeccable organizational skills
• Be a team-player able to seamlessly partner with designers, copywriters, web developers, and marketing teams
• Have strong change management and scheduling skills, able to juggle conflicting priorities and resolve to meet client(s) demand
• Be proactive and solutions-oriented with a positive attitude toward challenges
• Have an upbeat, can-do attitude even when pressured by time constraints
• Bring an open and curious mindset to everything you do
• Have U.S. citizenship or authorization to work in the United States
• Possess superior project scoping, project timeline development, risk assessment, and prioritization skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Proficient in Microsoft suite and Teams environment, though internal workflows use Google suite
• Project management tools, like Monday.com, Airtable, etc. as the role requires shifting to what our clients use
• Understanding of proofing tools for the review of digital art files (Ziflow, etc.)