Project Manager

Switch; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Switch is seeking a Project Manager in the St. Louis area to oversee projects across enterprise solutions including events, trade shows, field marketing and digital campaigns.

You will coordinate with stakeholders, manage budgets, schedules, and resources to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while aligning with the client’s strategic goals. This role requires travel and flexible hours as project demands.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business management, project management, or related field.
• 3 years of project management experience.
• Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills.
• Experience budgeting and managing a project end-to-end.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint).
• Willingness to travel 25–30% and work flexible hours.

Responsibilities

• Manage projects across a variety of clients including asset build, logistics, and on-site activations.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define program scope and budget.
• Oversee resources, track progress, and hit key deliverables and milestones.
• Drive project teams to deliver on time, on budget, while maintaining creative focus.
• Maintain financial oversight from inception to invoicing and performance against budget.
• Develop and maintain project records: timelines, costs, PO management, communications, change orders.
• Coordinate with all Switch departments to ensure clear communication and processes.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in business management or related field

3 years of Project Management experience

Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills

Budgeting and end-to-end project management experience

Leadership and cross-functional collaboration

Microsoft O365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint)

Tools

Microsoft O365

Job description

Switch is an award-winning, full-service creative + production company that connects creative with production to bring ideas to life as envisioned and deliver impactful results as intended. And we’ve delivered all this and more for 40+ years. While our proven capabilities include live, virtual + hybrid events, business meetings, field marketing + brand immersions, trade shows + exhibits, digital marketing, branding + advertising, we don’t limit our thinking and doing to just one channel. We work to connect the dots between all of them.

The Project Manager is responsible for managing projects across a variety of clients that may utilize our enterprise solution offerings (business meetings, events, tradeshow booths, field marketing, video, digital marketing, and creative projects). Collaborating with key internal and external stakeholders to develop project scopes, and provide project oversight over the entire project lifecycle, including overall financial performance of the project.

• Manage projects across a variety of clients that utilize our enterprise solution offerings including the build of assets, logistics of the program, and on-site load-in/load-out and activations.
• Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders in developing strategic intent, program/project scope, and corresponding budget.
• Responsible for managing all internal and external resources, tracking project progress, and meeting all key deliverables and milestones as defined in the project scope.
• Once the project is sold, “drive” the project team members to deliver the project on time, on budget, and ensure that the creative approach stays focused and consistent with the project’s strategic intent.
• Maintains financial oversight through the entire project management lifecycle, including budget estimates to the preparation of invoicing and managing the overall financial performance that meets or exceeds budget expectations.
• Key project architect responsible for developing and maintaining projects records that include production timelines, project cost, P.O. management, creative elements, customer communications and documented change orders.
• Works collaboratively across all Switch departments to ensure efficient communication and processes are implemented and followed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in business management, project management or related field.
• 3 years of Project Management experience.
• Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills; and the ability to multi-task.
• Demonstrated strategic abilities, thorough understanding of display design, production and technology, solid leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability and experience in budgeting and managing a project from beginning to end.
• Proficiency in Microsoft O365 environment (Word, Excel, Outlook. PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint).
• The ability to travel 25-30% pending the projects assigned.
• The ability to work flexible hours depending on the project/events assigned.

Preferred Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in building assets and handling events logistics for tradeshow booths, field marketing programs, and experiential marketing events preferred.
• Experience in multiple client industries (i.e. beverage, snacks, healthcare, tools, etc.)

Physical Demands (refer to Addendum):

• Ability to work in a physical environment and lift 20 pounds.