Program Director/Creative PM IV

Company

Cox Enterprises

Job Family Group

Marketing

Job Profile

Sr Manager, Advertising

Management Level

Sr Manager - People Leader

Flexible Work Option

Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region

Travel %

Yes, 5% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $108,800.00 - $181,400.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

PROJECT MANAGER IV/PROGRAM DIRECTOR

We’re looking for someone who knows how to lead project management teams and complex creative accounts in a way that builds business AND blows minds. If you’re that kind of leader and creative cohort, a person who truly loves planning complex creative programs and managing the day-to-day play-by-play of creative accounts, seeing them through from the starting gate to the finish line, then you might be Cox’s next Creative Project Manager IV/Program Director.

You’ll lead capacity planning, develop and manage project managers, and map out the most complex creative program scopes, timelines and budgets. You’ll field questions and concerns from stakeholders along the journey. You’ll bring your famous attention to detail, dedication, experience and leadership to every opportunity.

If being a lead maestro of many moving parts and paving the way for next-level creative with passion sounds like your sweet spot, then settle in and keep reading. We’d love to tell you more.

What You’ll Do

Our client services team and clients will love having you partner with them as you listen to their aspirations, navigate their needs and make sure our creative team delivers for them. You’ll lead quarterly and annual capacity planning. You’ll lead a team of project managers who appreciate your expertise and leadership. You’ll assess the scope of work of our most complicated projects to make sure everyone is on the same page with deliverables, budgets, and outcomes. This includes keeping a keen eye on the budget so you can explain cost factors to the client, taking care of their dollars and ours and serving as point of escalation with client partners and account leadership for errors, problems, and challenges that need extra support. You’re the expert in identifying potential risks and developing contingency plans across multiple projects. Proactive at problem-solving, anticipating and addressing issues before they impact client partner project timelines or creative quality and skilled in leading project post-mortems to capture insights for future improvements. And our creative team will love having you partner with them so they can continue to cook up creative magic.

Responsibilities:

• Lead PM team in quarterly and annual campaign/project planning for Ideabar’s largest internal and external clients
• Manages RFP/opportunity response workflow + budget (including spec work)
• Ensures alignment between estimates and SOW detail in all client proposals
• Ensures all client architecture structures and campaign architecture structures meet Financial, Account + Project Management needs
• Manages consolidated AOR/program/campaign timelines
• Ensures successful Marketing Plan and initial program/campaign execution
• Oversees that all client engagements are on-quality (tactical), on-time and on-budget
• Oversees the consistent successful facilitation of client engagements
• Manages PO approvals above specified dollar amount
• Maintains + monitors overarching client budgets and schedules monthly
• Owns client-facing agency advocate communication
• Ensures adherence to pertinent client contract requirements
• Maintains deep understanding of agency AOR workflow
• Reviews populated pricing template for existing priority clients
• Manages assigned Project Managers
• Manages individual and department utilization(s) and realization(s) of assigned PM team members
• Helps to recruit, hire and develop staff and support ongoing departmental training initiatives and resources.
• Core admin and trainer for agency project management system
• Establishes and enforces streamlined workflows of agency project-related processes
• Identifies best practices and develops new systems/processes/tools for complex integrated client projects.
• Establishes agency capacity plans for use against ongoing assessments of agency staffing needs in relation to client work in