In this role at Circus/MediaMonks you'll make sure the machinery runs smoothly, keeping your eyes on everything from the overall aims to the small details of the projects.
You’ll partner and work side by side with art directors, content creators, strategists, copywriters, developers, producers to ensure the brand's goals are met and help everyone channel their creative talents toward those mind-blowing ends. You’re responsible for the execution of every deliverable: concepts, editorial content calendars, stunning videos and media, and general content creation.
PMs galvanize the internal creative and strategy teams together into one driving force for the client.
Responsibilities:
- Receiving briefs and synthesizing them, fully understanding the requests.
- Being the doer: You have to make things happen, from start to end, coordinating all the hubs.
- Receiving feedback, understanding it and translating it to the internal team, questioning Clients if necessary to understand where the feedback comes from (it is forbidden to forward feedback).
- Organization skills:
- Creating Timetables
- Negotiating Timetables
- Being able to prioritize
- Having deep knowledge of the brand and the category.
- Detecting business opportunities.
- Knowing the Client's business situation.
- Being able to make presentations and defend Agency’s ideas.
- Getting involved with the strategic hub to fully understand the client’s strategy.
- Proactivity: ideas to solve business problems or enhance business goals.
- Having off the agenda sessions to discuss social and business issues with clients.
- Financial control.
- Less mails, more calls. Phone calls ease well functioning of teams, mails are to leave on paper the agreements of meetings and calls.
- Being able not only to brief the team but to suggest strategic or creative paths demonstrating deep knowledge of the brand and category.
- Briefs should be given orally to be able to explain and written to leave agreements and requests on paper.
Requirements
This PM Jr needs:
- 1+ year as Project Manager o similar role in an advertising/marketing environment (plus).
- Impeccable organizational skills. With projects under your charge from start to finish.
- An inherent knack for spreadsheets, timelines, budgeting, and juggling. (Metaphorical. Mostly.)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills are a must, as PMs need to manage expectations for the client and internal teams, synthesize different points of view, and incorporate other people's ideas into an active project plan.
- An entrepreneurial spirit, a desire for autonomy, and an ability to set aside their egos and build something amazing.
- People who see the energy, time, and sheer tenacity it takes to build a giant business from a single idea and think, Yeah, I could do that."
- Exceptional Excel skills (plus).
- Familiarity with digital production services.
- English fluency (speaking and writing).