Marketing Project Manager - Junior

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Your role and responsibilities

The Blue Studio project manager is a key orchestrator, managing creative project expectations among stakeholders, the Blue Studio and agency partners to uphold our creative excellence. The role covers 3 key tenets: execution team advocacy, external agency partner management, and operational excellence.

• Monitors incoming project requests for IBM Blue Studio's internal creative and external agency teams, proactively communicating concerns or issues to broader cross-functional teams

• Works effectively within the Engagement Team to guide project initiation, execution, and creative workflows with the appropriate IBM subject matter experts and Blue Studio directional leads, ensuring alignment with business objectives

• Creates project timelines to meet forecasted demand, ensures appropriate workflow prioritization, and raises blockers as needed

• Organizes meetings and kickoff calls with relevant SMEs and Blue Studio leads

• Manages creative team resource allocation and assigns appropriate resources to new projects

• Communicates project updates to promote alignment and transparency; acts as a champion for the team by advocating for its needs and positioning its work effectively

• Maintains project documentation, tracks progress, and prepares project reports

• Ensures deliverables are finalized according to the project brief and statement of work

• Conducts project closing procedures, including uploading final files, updating documentation, and scheduling retrospectives with internal and external teams

• Identifies, assesses, and prioritizes risks and issues, escalating them to the appropriate resources for resolution

• Supports process improvement by helping the team evolve workflows based on efficiencies gained over time

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Fluent in English

• Excellent expectation management, communication skills and knowledge of the Agile method

• Some experience working or internship in a start-up or creative agency or in-house with creative partners

• Some knowledge of creative production tools like Adobe Creative Suite

• Experience with project management tools like Workfront

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience in creative production and connecting content and experiences with buyer, market and channel trends
• Passion for taking a new media approach to content, using data to inspire ideas
• Excellent reputation for customer service and exceeding business objectives
• Inherent curiosity as a digital consumer who understands the modern content landscape
• Excellent attention to detail and organization with a commitment to flawless execution

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