Digital Project Manager (12 months contract) - Jobs in Toronto, ON

Job Description

Company DescriptionPublicis is an omni-channel communications agency with over 600 employees across our Canadian operations. The office is the largest in our industry in Canada and boasts talent across various disciplines of marketing and advertising expertise. Publicis carries a balanced split of Canadian, U.S. and Global clients for which we are Agency of Record. Publicis supports a range of D&I actions through our Driving Change team as well as giving back to the community through a long-standing participation in the Out of the Cold Program. With a strong, active and familial culture, Pub United is the agency’s social club, hosting events as wide reaching as Curling, Trivia Nights and more.Job DescriptionPublicis Toronto is looking for a Digital Project Manager to join our team.The Digital Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end project management of site, email and digital display initiatives for Publicis Toronto. While leading the production of advertising campaign at Publicis, you will work alongside the Account, Technology, User Experience, and Creative teams as an integral part of the PMO and digital groups.Our clients hire us for our creative excellence, strategic smarts and flawless execution.The successful candidate will deliver in all of these areas.Responsibilities:

• Analyze and understand clients’ business goals and objectives
• Identify project deliverables and manage all aspects of the project including a) planning, estimation and scoping, b) schedule, c) risks, and d) resources
• Develop and maintain Project Plans, detailed Timelines, Statements of Works and Change Requests
• Proactively manage shared resources to ensure project completion. This includes internal teams and freelancers as well as external vendors
• Ensure the success of each project from initial approach to post-mortem, applying project lifecycle methodologies that best suit the work at hand
• Engage agency departments from client service, strategy, user experience, creative design, development, quality assurance, and others to most effectively contribute to the project deliverables
• Manage changes effectively throughout project delivery
• Track and control project progress (activities, milestones, deliverables) and estimation/re-estimation work as necessary

Qualifications

• Excellent planner, organizer, and communicator
• Comfortable with ambiguity and strong relationship building skills in order to navigate complex and diverse project needs
• Entrepreneurial attitude, able to problem-solve autonomously within uncertain project environments
• Discipline to meet their commitments and ensure team members meet theirs
• Demonstrate positive, mature and professional behavior with a “can-do” attitude
• Experience with common project management tools (MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Basecamp) and corporate/cloud systems (Box, Google Apps etc.)
• Technical Requirements in collaboration with internal technical stakeholders:
  • Strong experience with technical project estimation
  • Familiarity in the requirements of digital productions that involve technical integration with external components and APIs
  • Experience with the production of platform-based solutions
  • Strong familiarity with key web technologies and trends including Responsive Design and Mobile Apps

OTHER REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant university or college training
• 3+ years project management experience, relevant working experience in advertising, media or related fields
• Excellent verbal, written and communication skills
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, challenging, and rewarding environment

Additional InformationPublicis Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply. If you require a specific accommodation please contact Human Resources at 416-925-7733 or by email at inquiries@publicisna.comQuick Apply

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