Hybrid Strategic Project Manager — Marketing & Design

Vsapartners; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

VSA Partners in Chicago and New York is seeking a Project Manager to support senior PMs across a client portfolio. You will manage day-to-day communications, budgets, scheduling, risks, and cross-functional collaboration to keep projects healthy and on track.

The role requires 2+ years coordinating brand, marketing, and digital projects, a business degree, and strong organization. Hybrid work is offered, with opportunities to grow in a leading strategy and design agency.

Qualifications

• 2+ years coordinating brand, marketing, campaign and digital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in project management, advertising/marketing, or related field.
• Experience with project management methodology and the ability to develop and track scopes of work, identify and resolve issues, mitigate risk, develop task-based plans, allocate resources, and lead team meetings.
• Experience with project life cycles, print and digital production processes, and delivering creative and engineering components, advertising projects, brand strategy, and research.

Responsibilities

• Support senior-level project managers on a given client/program or across multiple clients/programs and/or oversee and direct multiple individual projects.
• Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations, including being on time and on budget.
• Interface with senior management at the client to ensure the solution addresses business requirements.
• Contribute to client deliverables to ensure relevancy, strategy, quality, timeliness, and SOW compliance.
• Manage project scope and change control to align with scope, schedule, and budget.
• Supervise and raise awareness of issues and risks, and develop solutions with the team.
• Communicate status, risk, issues, or deliverables to the client.
• Collaborate on client SOWs ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Drive project approach, deliverables, and schedules within constraints; manage finances.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Time management

Team facilitation

Adaptability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration

Tools

Jira

Smartsheet

Workamajig

Google Sheets/Excel

Job description

VSA Partners in Chicago and New York is seeking a Project Manager to support senior PMs across a client portfolio. You will manage day-to-day communications, budgets, scheduling, risks, and cross-functional collaboration to keep projects healthy and on track.

The role requires 2+ years coordinating brand, marketing, and digital projects, a business degree, and strong organization. Hybrid work is offered, with opportunities to grow in a leading strategy and design agency.