Project Manager, Advertising

Company: Targeted Victory
Location: Arlington
Posted on: May 14, 2022

Job Description:

About Us:
Targeted Victory is a full-service marketing agency providing optimized outcomes in the digital age. We are made up of fresh thinking, curious minded, supportive, and team oriented individuals. Our clients, including national political and international decision makers, count on our team of top strategists to provide comprehensive solutions and strategic counsel on public affairs, advertising, media planning, fundraising and reputation management.

We have collectively raised our clients more than $1.5 billion in online fundraising, managed over $335 million in digital advertising, delivered over 13.5 billion emails and 3 billion text messages, and have sold and fulfilled over 3.25 million units of merchandise.

Targeted Victory is the proud recipient of the 2022 Reed Award for Best Employer, 2021 Campaign Tech Award for Best Employer, and the 2021 Reed Award for Best Employer: Work-From-Home Transition.

Job Summary:
Targeted Victory is looking for a meticulous and self-directed leader to help streamline and optimize the firm's advertising operations as we rapidly expand both our product offering and our team. The ideal candidate must be comfortable working in a deadline-driven, campaign-style work environment and be able to coordinate with multiple teams across the organization to capture requirements and drive outcomes. Attention to detail, time management, the ability to manage both up and down, and a strong work ethic are must-haves.

Key Responsibilities:
Increase advertising team members' line of sight into the full array of active projects currently assigned and likely forthcoming
Monitor all traffic with client teams; map and calendar any incoming requests
Identify the steps from initial brief to project completion and tie each to concrete deadlines
In conjunction with the director of advertising and department leads, implement team accountability for deadlines and deliverables
Establish order of operations for competing time bound priorities; assign ranked priorities to advertising department leads
Utilize deadline-based project management tools to ensure advertising projects launch on time and are quality assured in real-time
Lead documentation and compliance efforts, including financial paperwork and content warehousing
Organize an orderly, discoverable, and replicable cloud file sharing taxonomy in Google Drive
Continuously assess and iterate the standardized process client services teams utilize to formulate and submit new advertising projects
In conjunction with the director of advertising, assess advertising team members and build ad hoc teams for internal departmental projects and special projects from firm leadership
Be a strong collaborator and partner with product teams, client teams, and other departments
Function as a strategy partner and doer, provide leadership and insights, support strategic objectives, and be a hands-on member of the team

Position Requirements:
This position is for individuals who are self-starters driven to improve and strengthen processes in furtherance of more efficient, effective client outcomes and should have:
Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, administration or equivalent work experience in a related field
Experience in politics, public affairs, or advertising preferred
4+ years of experience developing and implementing project plans
Demonstrated experience successfully implementing project management software (Salesforce, Trello, Basecamp, Asana, or etc) across projects and teams
Proven ability to insert time-sensitive priorities into principals' schedules and obtain necessary feedback and approvals
Keen understanding of paid, earned, and owned channels and the production and approval timeline implications of each
Significant experience working with creative teams and/or trafficking paid and owned assets
Demonstrated ability to scale and improve programs, optimize efforts, and drive outcomes
Demonstrated enthusiasm for building productive relationships with key stakeholders and leadership
Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex tasks into manageable steps

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