Director, Project Management

BarkleyOKRP; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BarkleyOKRP is seeking a Director of Project Management in Chicago to lead the portfolio-wide workflow and project execution for multiple brands. You will establish vision, standardize methodologies, and partner with senior leadership to scope and estimate work.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in project management within an agency setting, strong writing and communication skills, and a collaborative, detail-oriented mindset.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, advertising, marketing, or a similar field is required.
• A minimum of 10+ years of project management experience, preferably in a full-service advertising agency setting.
• A good to expert understanding of print, broadcast, and digital (multi-media) production.
• Self-motivated, quick, and assertive.
• Extremely detailed oriented and organized.
• Exceptional time management skills.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Cool, calm, collected, and collaborative.
• Project Management experience in a technology or marketing-related field is preferred.
• PMI Certification a plus

Responsibilities

• Establish vision and drive workflow across entire portfolio of brands across agency work.
• Agency-wide integration of consistent project management methodologies and terminology.
• Ensure adherence to agency workflow process and evolving processes as needed.
• Partner with account leadership on scope creation.
• Create estimates for all scopes, working with department leaders.
• Manage agency performance and brand fiscal responsibility against scopes and estimates utilizing existing tools/systems.
• Provide executive management with reporting and insight into the work going on in the agency.
• Uses discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.
• Work across the agency with various disciplines and management to ensure workflow processes are in line with the overall company objectives and vision.

Skills

Project management

Agency experience

Multimedia production knowledge

Time management

Attention to detail

Communication

Collaboration

PMI Certification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, advertising, marketing, or a similar field

Job description

The indispensable partner to every team.Champion of problem-solving across the Whole Brand. The driver of meaningful solutions to business problems and an enthusiastic enabler of creativity. Builder of teams, brands, and businesses. This is aBarkleyOKRPDirector of Project Management. And the best part about all of it? They get to work with some of the most talented, driven, engaging, and creative folks in the industry. Win/win/win, ifyou ask us.

Responsibilities

• Establish vision and drive workflow across entire portfolio ofofmultiple brands across agency work

• Agency-wide integration of consistent project management methodologies and terminology

• Ensure adherence to agency workflow process and evolving processes as needed

• Partner with account leadership on scope creation

• Create estimates for all scopes, working with department leaders

• Manage agency performance and brand fiscal responsibility against scopes and estimatesutilizingexisting tools/systems

• Provide executive management with reporting and insight into the work going on in the agency

• Usesdiscretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.

• Work across the agency with various disciplines and management to ensure workflow processes are in line with the overall companyobjectivesand vision

Qualifications

• Bachelor’sdegree in business, advertising, marketing, or a similar field isrequired.

• A minimum of 10+ years of project management experience, preferably in a full-service advertising agency setting.

• Agood toexpert understanding of print, broadcast, and digital (multi-media) production.

• Self-motivated, quick, and assertive.

• Extremelydetailedoriented and organized.

• Exceptional time management skills.

• Excellent writing and communication skills.

• Cool, calm, collected, and collaborative.

• Project Management experience in a technology or marketing-related field is preferred.

• PMI Certification a plus

BarkleyOKRP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging

• At BarkleyOKRP, DEI+B drives work that matters. We believe people and creativity are made of the same substance, and when every perspective is valued, the impact is stronger. We build belonging as a business strategy, power inclusive creativity that delivers measurable results, and hold ourselves accountable as a B Corp committed to progress over performative intent. When people are valued, the work carries greater impact.