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This role leads the Project Management Department at New Honor Society. They will play a pivotal part in ensuring strategically defined project scopes, efficient processes and workflow, and realistic timelines are in place to deliver consistently high-quality creative work. This role collaborates across Account, Creative, Studio, and Finance teams to meet overall agency goals in delivering quality work in an on-time and on-budget manner. This is a key agency role for someone who thrives at the intersection of resource management, process optimization, and project delivery. Key Responsibilities Project Management Leadership:
- Lead the Project Management department, setting expectations for the planning, execution, and delivery of client projects across all accounts
- Define project approach, scope of work (SOW), timelines, delivery schedules, and estimates in collaboration with Department/Team Leads
- Manage the timely progression of larger-scale projects, organize and sets clear expectations for project deliverables
- Ensures clear and accurate communication and project documentation are maintained (e.g. project plan, status reports, internal meeting notes, change requests and resource requests)
- Enable knowledge-sharing and quality assurance throughout the project lifecycle; if you see something that's not progressing on time and as expected, realign with team
- Oversee the resourcing and allocation of Creative and Studio teams, ensuring proper skillset and availability
- Provide oversight across large-scale and multi-workstream projects, proactively identifying risks and troubleshooting issues related to timelines, budgets, or resourcing
- Drive workflow improvements responding to agency and client needs
- Establish and maintain best practices, training materials, and process documentation (e.g., Egnyte server use, Teams communication, stock usage guidelines)
- Partner with IT to operationalize best practices for creative tool/communication platform usage
- Actively manages project timing and resource assignments in Project Management software
- Monitors project scope and informs Account partners of scope creep and impact on budget, ensuring accurate financial management of the project and portfolio
- Proactively identifies risks, monitors issues, and provides mitigation and contingency plans throughout the project lifestyle
- Distills complex information into a clear, concise format and provides to team and discipline leads as needed to aid decision making
- Effectively manages change and can influence team to adopt best practices and process improvement
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree and/or relevant experience required
- 8+ years of Project Management experience or in a similar role
- PMP Certification and/or SCRUM Master Certification a plus
- 2-3 years of supervisory experience managing and mentoring junior/mid-level talent
- Demonstrate effective communication, problem solving and analytical skills
- Exceptional time management, attention to detail and organizational skills
- Has the ability to provide big picture strategic thinking, vision and insights to drive big ideas and initiatives for clients and the agency
This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that an employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions, reserving the right to revise the job description at any time. It is the policy of New Honor Society and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F. |
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Aug 05, 2025