Marketing Project Manager (Active Search!)

Creatis

Location:

Minneapolis, MN

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently leads and provides project management leadership for large programs and projects
• Ensures projects meet business requirements on time and within budget
• Defines and manages communication plans
• Leads activities to mitigate risks and resolve issues
• Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques
• Identifies and communicates budget and schedule variances
• Monitors progress of project and reports status
• Performs any corrective actions and escalates with recommendations
• Manages tasks and designates responsibilities for global and virtual teams of 10-20 project contributors
• Effectively manages work with vendor partners as appropriate

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of project management experience leading medium to large size projects
• 4-year college degree required
• Strong verbal presentation and written communication skills
• Must possess knowledge and expertise in the use of project management methodologies and tools, resource management practices and change management techniques
• Understands the various application development methodologies (waterfall, iterative, etc.) and can apply them appropriately depending on the type of project that he/she is leading
• Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and SharePoint: 5+ Years
• Effectively manages work with vendor partners as appropriate
• SharePoint experience
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks for self and others
• Experience managing medium to large size multi-million dollar projects and/or experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of project management tools, methods and best practices as defined by Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
• Strong experience with the use of ETCs, Baselines, Dependencies, Resource Leveling, and Burn Rate
• Experience leading matrixed project teams
• Detail-oriented & strong organizational & analytical skills
• High degree of professionalism and high sensitivity for confidentiality
• Strong interpersonal, partnership, and collaboration skills used to solve problems and drive decisions
• Strong sense of urgency and demonstrates initiative and follows thru
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Project Management Professional (PMP)

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