Senior Marketing Program Manager - (US-NJ-Ridgefield Park - 07660)

Compensation: $95K - $115K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
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This marketing firm is looking for a Senior Program Manager with a creative mind and a practical understanding of how to best execute marketing efforts for company clients. The primary function of the Senior Program Manager is to be directly responsible for integrated online marketing campaigns and site builds for client accounts. This person will clearly define and manage interactive advertising and marketing projects, enabling our cross-functional project teams to deliver on time and on budget.


DUTIES:
- Oversee multiple, concurrent interactive projects and facilitate all phases of project development including scope definition, planning, creative development, production/implementation, testing and launch.
- Develop any documentation according to prescribed delivery process - necessary to clearly communicate project requirements and parameters, including functional specs.
- Develop and manage accurate project timelines, project plans and project budgets.
- Leadership of internal cross-functional project team.
- Management of external vendors and freelance resources.
- Identification and mitigation of project issues and risks.
- Develop statements of work and change orders, create project plans, lead kick-off meetings and manage budgets.
- Regularly communicate status of projects and issues to the team - this includes leading status meetings as needed.
- Maintain direct communication with account staff and project team.
- Manage project budgets, internal job codes, and external invoices.
- Manage and orchestrate quality assurance testing and bug remediation.
- Help to grow account(s) by producing high-quality end products, within budget and on schedule.
- Play an active role in re-evaluating current processes and recommend and implement improvements.
- Play an active role in estimating new business for existing and potential new accounts.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS:
- 6 to 10 years of interactive project management experience in an agency environment.
- Excellent project management skills including team management, scope management, change control, project estimation & planning, vendor management and resource allocation.
- Both strategic and functional problem solving skills.
- Solid understanding of web & online media technologies (Flash, ASP, JSP, HTML, XML, CSS, Database, CMS, CRM)
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Good negotiation skills both internally and externally.
- Strong oral, written, organization and presentation skills.
- Expert MS Project skills are a must; as well as MS Office & Visio.
- Solid understanding of web and online media campaign development lifecycles.
- Show a high degree of self-motivation and work well as an individual and within a team environment.
- Some experience with social-media/viral-media a plus.
- College Degree (liberal arts and/or computer science) or equivalent experience.

ATTRIBUTES:
- A strong team player.
- Must be able to lead projects independently.
- Must be results-oriented, a fast learner and able to quickly adapt to change.
- Common sense approach is absolutely necessary.
- Problem solver and a take charge attitude.

Candidate Must Have:
-6 to 10 years of interactive project management experience in an agency environment.
-Excellent project management skills including team management, scope management, change control, project estimation & planning, vendor management and resource allocation.
- Solid understanding of web & online media technologies (Flash, ASP, JSP, HTML, XML, CSS, Database, CMS, CRM)
- Expert MS Project skills are a must; as well as MS Office & Visio.
- College Degree (liberal arts and/or computer science) or equivalent experience.

To apply for this position please send all resumes to ariel@placementprofessionals.com as a .doc (NOT .docx) attachment for immediate consideration.

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