Creative Program Manager — Budget & Delivery Lead

Valtech; Ciudad de México; Hybrid; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and hybrid options

Career mobility and development

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Valtech is seeking an experienced Program Manager in Mexico City to lead medium-scale projects and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring delivery across scope, timelines, quality, resources and budget.

The ideal candidate has strong program management, leadership, and financial management experience in agency or creative environments, with success delivering client engagements and governance practices.

Qualifications

• Must have: proven experience managing medium to complex projects or programs from planning through delivery.
• Must have: demonstrated experience leading and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
• Must have: professional experience delivering projects within an agency, creative, digital, marketing, or client-service environment.
• Must have: strong experience with project financial management including budgeting, forecasting, cost tracking, and financial performance monitoring.
• Must have: strong understanding of project management methodologies, tools, processes, and governance practices.
• Must have: ability to identify deviations from plans and take corrective action.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end responsibility for the definition, approach, planning, facilitation, and delivery of medium-scale projects.
• Provide effective leadership to multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring clarity around priorities and responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain realistic project plans, schedules, resource requirements, and budgets.
• Manage the financial performance of projects, including budget planning, cost tracking, forecasting and monitoring against targets.
• Monitor scope, timelines, costs, quality and resource utilization, taking corrective actions when needed.
• Identify, assess and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies and changes.
• Own and facilitate change control processes and evaluate impact on scope, budget and timelines.
• Ensure deliverables are completed within timelines, budgets and quality standards and formally accepted.
• Communicate project status, risks, financial performance and key decisions to stakeholders.
• Ensure project and product quality reviews take place according to processes and timelines.
• Support project governance with control boards, assurance activities and quality review meetings.
• Establish and maintain project management processes, controls, tools and documentation.
• Provide guidance on proposals, planning, scheduling, tracking, risk management, change management, quality, finance and resource management.
• Partner with creative, strategy, delivery and cross-functional teams to ensure client engagements succeed.

Skills

Program management

Multidisciplinary teams

Agency/creative environment experience

Financial management of projects

Job description

Valtech is seeking an experienced Program Manager in Mexico City to lead medium-scale projects and multidisciplinary teams, ensuring delivery across scope, timelines, quality, resources and budget.

The ideal candidate has strong program management, leadership, and financial management experience in agency or creative environments, with success delivering client engagements and governance practices.