Associate Project Manager

Publicis Groupe ANZ is a marketing solutions company that partners with innovative brands. The Associate Project Manager will support high-impact retail merchandising projects, ensuring flawless implementation and managing project workflows across various product categories.

Responsibilities:

• Manage small retail merchandising projects independently or support senior project management to lead a portion of a larger engagement on time & on budget while exceeding client expectations. Projects focus on developing, iterating, and distributing retail store planograms at large scale volumes, with a strong focus on product-driven updates. The team is responsible for developing detailed schematics that determine where and how products should be displayed on tables, shelves and fixtures
• Support program management on scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling tasks
• Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
• Anticipate, identify, and communicate risks, seeking guidance from senior leads to assist in mitigating any issues
• Provide ongoing monitoring of progress such as project status, issue resolution, task and allocation management, and timeline tracking; consult with team and adjust as needed
• Adopt automation and embrace tools to streamline efficiency
• Exceptional attention to detail is crucial to ensure all aspects of the planograms are accurately implemented and maintained. This includes managing inventory, understanding product placement, and ensuring compliance with established planograms

Requirements:

• 2+ years of project management experience in an agency environment managing a high volume of projects aligned to product lifecycles
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Excellent communication skills, particularly to drive workflow steps and internal processes, and the ability to work with distributed global teams
• Exposure to standard communication, project management and workflow tools
• Exceptional attention to detail is crucial to ensure all aspects of the planograms are accurately implemented and maintained. This includes managing inventory, understanding product placement, and ensuring compliance with established planograms
• Manage small retail merchandising projects independently or support senior project management to lead a portion of a larger engagement on time & on budget while exceeding client expectations
• Support program management on scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling tasks
• Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
• Anticipate, identify, and communicate risks, seeking guidance from senior leads to assist in mitigating any issues
• Provide ongoing monitoring of progress such as project status, issue resolution, task and allocation management, and timeline tracking; consult with team and adjust as needed
• Adopt automation and embrace tools to streamline efficiency
• Previous exposure to projects in the retail planning & merchandising space is a plus, such as familiarity with production teams that use modeling and rendering software to develop retail floor/space diagrams, table/fixture layouts, and product icons
• Experience in the consumer electronics industry is a plus
• Ideally, some familiarity with retail merchandising projects focused on planogram development