Project Manager at McCarthy Insurance Group, Inc in Arlington, Virginia, United States

Job description

• Job Description

Responsibilities

• · Manage the timely delivery of all marketing projects, ensuring they align with business goals and remain within scope, schedule, and budget.
• · Elicit requirements using interviews, workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, wireframes, and workflow analysis.
• · Collaborate with business owners to understand business goals and objectives for projects.
• · Coordinate incoming marketing requests, assign projects to appropriate staff, and ensure progress to completion.
• · Manage project workflows among Marketing, Creative, Design, and Digital teams, working with leadership to ensure process efficiencies.
• · Assess project risks continuously, escalate issues as needed, and provide solutions-oriented approaches to maintain schedules.
• · Facilitate information flow among all project participants and work independently with project teams, SMEs, and stakeholders to resolve issues.
• · Communicate project scope, goals, and success metrics to the project team.
• · Create and manage project schedules using tools like Microsoft Project, Asana, Smartsheet, to outline tasks, milestones, dependencies, and resources.
• · Establish rapport with business owners by providing consultative project management services.
• · Prepare timely and accurate status reports for executive leadership, project sponsors, and stakeholders.
• · Manage projects within the approved budget and monitor change requests for budget impacts.

Requirements

• Knowledge
• · Awareness of industry best practices and systems development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Scrum), and desire to deepen responsibilities within these areas of expertise.
• · Understanding of marketing, creative services, and design operations.
• Skills and Abilities
• Strong project management skills, proficient in using project management software like Asana.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to lead projects independently and work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Experience
• · A four-year college degree in a related field is preferred.
• · PMP or Scrum certification are a plus, or a desire to obtain one of these certifications.
• · Experience with HubSpot or similar marketing automation tools and Salesforce.com or other CRM systems.

Skills

Required

• Strong project management skills

Preferred

• PMP or Scrum certification