VP, Project Management

UEG is an award-winning global agency that specializes in making brands famous. We create breakthrough marketing campaigns by partnering brands with the people, places and platforms that shape pop-culture. Our business specializes in the entertainment, sports, and lifestyle space and provides a full suite of services that include celebrity and influencer programming, music-film-tv/digital-sports partnerships, communications, branded content, and experiential.

The team at UEG is a dynamic group, bringing together best-in-class expertise across entertainment, sports, and lifestyle, paired with a strong understanding of brand building and effective marketing communications. This is an environment where we combine true passion for culture with the innate desire to create industry-changing work for our clients.

This is an exciting opportunity for a process-building, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. This VP, Project Management role will operate out of UEG’s New York office. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm and is eager to be the best in the business. Our VP, Project Management will have a deep experience in building and evangelizing integrated project management teams and will be recognized as a go-to for high priority new business, core client program definition, delivery best practices, and PM team leadership.

About Your Day-to-Day:

This role is responsible for providing structure and overall delivery vision on projects and for overseeing a client portfolio consisting of multiple work streams and disciplines, with embedded leadership across our teams. Serving as the overall program management lead, they oversee a team of project managers that lead schedules, deliverables, priorities and teams towards flawless execution. We are seeking a strategic core team leader and counselor to Account and Specialty leads in program management, project delivery approach and financial health.

This role is NYC based.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead project management in partnership with discipline leads, collaborating cross functionally with our account, practice, finance and operations teams
• Oversee wholistic workflow with a mix of individual client and portfolio management
• Own the intake of new work (new clients and existing core clients) and the evaluation of new briefs, devising delivery approaches for each assignment drawing on PM best practices
• Own and manage project definition in scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, producing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort.
• Champion project management tools and best practices that standardize how to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation.
• Own the delivery of large, complex programs independently and with support from more junior project managers.
• Serve as an escalation point to manage risks and provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, controlling project scope and the change control process, and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions.
• Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure clients are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved.
• Drive client discussions related to project plans, financial health, UEG capabilities and approach to delivery.
• Partner with resource management and specialty leads to forecast current and future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work.
• Establish workflow and best practices on integrated businesses that enable teams to efficiently deliver against program goals.
• Ensure quality checks and consistency of all outputs across all project deliverables
• Ensure flexibility in approaches to fit client, creative, and business needs, while managing change and the exploration of various budget/time scenarios to elevate work.
• Contribute to project operations and “the work behind the work” – prioritizing new project opportunities, establishing flexible frameworks and best practices with new teams, and providing input on PM team assignments.
• Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident leadership at all times.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• At least 9+ years of project management experience in an integrated marketing agency or related industry?
• Mastery of large, complex project delivery on integrated programs, from planning through execution
• Demonstrated ability to motivate teams, foster career development and oversee performance of junior to mid-level team members
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and/or Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool) is required.

$95,000 – $165,000 a year

An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.