Interactive Project Manager

New Position: Texas Interactive Project Manager 

Burson-Marsteller, Marsteller Interactive, Dallas Texas

Burson-Marsteller (www.bm.com), established in 1953, is a leading global public relations and communications consultancy. It provides clients with strategic thinking and program execution across a full range of public relations, public affairs, advertising, and web-related services. The firm's seamless worldwide network consists of 57 wholly-owned offices and 45 affiliated offices, together operating in 59 countries across six continents.

Burson-Marsteller is a part of Young & Rubicam Brands, a subsidiary of WPP Group plc (NASDQ: WPPGY), one of the world's leading communications services networks. Burson-Marsteller is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV.

The Interactive division of Burson-Marsteller, Marsteller Interactive in Dallas Texas, seeks a digital project manager with 3-6 years proven experience. 

Projects may include Web sites, micro-sites, wikis, social media, blog monitoring, Intranets, online ad campaigns, video streaming, flash modules, online public relations, search engine programs, and email marketing campaigns.

Interactive project management includes planning, organizing, and managing account tasks and resources to accomplish clearly defined project goals. You will work across the organization with various practice areas. The project manager typically leads an integrated team by working directly with a client (working under a Project Supervisor or Director).

Successful project management delivers to predicted metrics and traps actual utilization, steers staff availability, manages budgets, monitors budget use over the duration of the life of a project, ensures adherence to project schedules, and stewards creation of deliverables within the scope, schedule and budget defined for the account. A successful project manager understands the clients’ over-all business strategy and ensures all deliverables are developed against the set strategy. Where applicable, project managers ensure integrated plans with overall communication and marketing efforts as well as overall technical infrastructures.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Experience:

Professional experience with interactive agency, design firm, public relations, publishing, technology company, or corporation focusing on project oversight/management, documentation and tracking of resources to successfully complete Brand Building solutions. A strong understanding of scheduling, budgeting, timelines, and efficiencies is a must.

Education:

Undergraduate degree or MBA focus in business, English, journalism, education, graphic design, production,

– or – 
Suitable hybrid educational and professional experiences that would make one qualified based on criteria listed herein.

Required Skills:

· Excellent organizational and time management  

· Strong ability to understand digital strategy and structure project commitments into clear, achievable parts

· Understanding of standard project management basics and methods

· Strong understanding of methods including Business Development, Project Delivery, and Web Development Framework

· Excellent understanding of the creative process within an agency setting

· Strong handle on planning and managing new media and digital projects

· Strong scheduling to resources' abilities to maximize efficiencies

· Excellent financial management skills with past experience in assembling financial forecasts, tracking project actuals, and identifying potential budget overruns

· Ability to assemble account-level resource forecasts

· Ability to collaborate with and link with clients, design teams and technology areas

· Understanding of digital document management and ftp repositories

· Ability to deconstruct, analyze and reinterpret complex and abstract information

· Strong communication skills

· Strong leadership skills, ensuring continued confidence in leadership capabilities

· Ability to build client relationships

· Ability to connect with people

· Ability to mentor and motivate others

· Ability to delegate and oversee

· Possess a positive attitude

· Ability to engender trust

· Ability to work in teams within a matrixed organization

· Ability for limited travel up to 10% of time (as needed)

Required Software Skills:

· Strong experience is using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

· Working knowledge of Microsoft Project, Base Camp applications

· Working understanding of web based browser tools

· Good understanding of the Macintosh platform and Windows platforms

· Good understanding of back-end/content management, e-commerce, and other integrated technologies

· Good understanding of transaction layer technologies such as asp, jsp, xml, ajax, etc.

 OtherSkills (Nice-to-Have):

· Ability to identify revenue generating opportunities and ability to steward those opportunities to the appropriate business development leads (i.e. the Project Director for Interactive new business development).

· Excellent and fluid writing skills

· Ability to draft documents and track tactical content assets

· Capacity to work expediently (with inspiration)

· Experience with Adobe Acrobat, In Design, Photoshop

· Bi-lingual (Spanish)

· Knowledge of Burson-Marsteller