Communications Project Manager

Alight Solutions is a company focused on empowering clients to build a healthier and financially secure workforce. They are seeking a Communications Project Manager to oversee client initiatives, managing scope, schedules, resources, and budgets, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery through coordination with internal teams and external vendors.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the sales process for new and ongoing projects by defining, confirming, and documenting project scope and the project schedule
• Working with internal and external vendors to gather project estimates
• Coordinating with stakeholders to define project expectations, verifying scope, gathering information
• Leading planning meetings, developing schedules and risk plans, and supporting resource identification
• Managing and recording detailed project requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverables
• Using requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., planning sessions, brainstorming, focus groups) and the project charter
• Completing project and process evaluation, scorecard review, internal/external debrief meetings, and documentation, and providing input to development of ongoing refresh schedule
• Enhancing team performance through leadership, mentoring, training, and motivation to foster collaboration, improve efficiency, and elevate morale
• Executing assembly procedures, monitors shipping or mailing to ensure/confirm delivery
• Managing print projects, including proof review/approval, and attending press checks for a wide range of print work
• Understanding and verifying the financial scope of the project
• Providing support and financial data for client lead/sales team to create proposals and support documentation
• Managing project scope changes using approved methods
• Escalating and facilitating scope change conversations with client leads/sales team/account executives and working with them to address scope changes with clients
• Building the business with existing clients by listening, identifying possible future needs
• Pursuing new or expanded work with them
• Sharing information with the project lead but also taking a larger role in defining and developing the offer

Requirements:

• Able to consult and ask appropriate questions to guide clients and colleagues to meet their goals and objectives
• Have a solid foundation in guiding and assisting teams and individuals
• Have external client/vendor facing consulting experience
• Display knowledge of benefits compensation, retirement plans, health plans, as well as equity and other HR rewards programs
• Have ability to translate business requirements into functional technical specifications
• Be detail-oriented and well-organized individual for a position
• The ideal candidate will have keen attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
• Hold a bachelor's or possess relevant work experience demonstrating substantial expertise in the field
• Demonstrate a solid foundation in collecting business or technical requirements to improve its effectiveness
• Have a high-level understanding of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, HTML, digital and emerging trends
• Having experience in XD (IN5) will be ideal
• Demonstrate knowledge of production and post-production process for digital and print
• Display excellent organizational and project management skills
• Be able to understand role on project/team, while going beyond to add value
• Have exceptional verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating creativity aligned closely with strategy