Sr. Specialist Marketing

Position Title: Sr. Specialist Marketing

Work Location: North Chicago, IL 60064

Assignment Duration: 10+ Months

Work Arrangement: Not specified

Position Summary: The Senior Project Manager helps instill corporate brand by leading cross-functional creative teams to deliver best-in-class, multi-channel creative solutions. The ideal candidate is motivated and proactive, with a passion for insights-driven marketing, creative problem solving and has a deep understanding of how creative work is achieved through projects, workflows and processes.

Background Context: Additionally, you'll demonstrate stewardship and provide project leadership to meet Division strategies and business objectives. The Senior Project Manager leads the most complex and critical projects (Tier 1) within the organization, ensuring successful implementation and alignment with strategic goals. The Senior Project Manager will manage multiple projects, mentor junior staff, and serve as an expert to lead project management methodologies, coordination and plans. This role is part of our organization Creative team, a group within our organization's global marketing and external affairs team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and within budget.
• Participate and lead as a Project Management subject matter expert for team processes, onboarding, and change management to promote continuous improvement.
• Mentor, support and provide feedback to Junior- and Mid-Level Project Managers and team members where appropriate to foster skill development and supportive culture.
• Collaborate with strategists, creative directors, writers, designers to develop strategically driven creative campaigns and content that attracts, engages and activates target audiences, while increasing our organization's share of voice and brand awareness metrics.
• Document project plan in project management software and maintain project documentation.
• Ensure all documentation is complete, accurate, and up to date.
• Proactively identify and manage project opportunities, issues and risks, and escalate issues in a timely manner to leadership.
• Serving as a central point of contact, build and maintain strategic partnerships with business partners, internal teams and external partners.
• Execute scope change management and project close-out processes and participate in project assessments and communicate lessons learned.
• Lead project management team partnership with Operations team to provide forecasting; have advanced understanding of tracking, reporting and oversight on project budget, expenditures and metrics.
• Influence the development of ideas that reinforce the values of our organization's brand and exhibit critical thinking to connect and align adjacent bodies of work.
• Recognize and celebrate achievements within project teams and organization.
• Acknowledge others for their accomplishments and efforts.

• Communications, Advertising, or Marketing Agency experience required.
• Strong proofreading skills and attention to detail.
• Comprehensive personal computer skills including demonstrated spreadsheet, word processing and database management capabilities are required.
• Experience working with project management tools and software.
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills.