Social Project Manager
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About the Role MediaMonks is seeking a Project Manager with experience managing large scale social media and creative projects. Our ideal candidate has superb communication and documentation skills, identifies gaps, develops processes, and is comfortable leading by example. Most importantly, they must have a passion for digital social communications, plus a knack for interacting with creative teams globally. Based in Riyadh, this position will be part of a dedicated team with one of our largest client accounts, so client-facing experience and willingness to travel is a must. Role & Responsibilities
- Oversee and manage all client projects ranging from content plan and social plan creation to campaign execution, platform or mobile app development and any other type of digital project that might be thrown your way.
- Develop and maintain the relevant governance mechanisms suited to project scale and type.
- Clearly track and communicate timelines, budgets, deliverables, goals and expectations with stakeholders, and various global teams across the organization.
- Manage all project communications and workflows, ensuring effective exchange of information so that deliverables are achieved on time, in budget and to the highest quality MediaMonks standards.
- Work with team leads from social, creative, technical and growth teams to properly vet, brief, and greenlight projects.
- Develop and own an accurate project timeline, master project calendar, workback schedules, budget and resource allocation, and other documentation and specs as needed.
- Ensure the final deliverables and outcomes are consistent with the brief, the timeline, client’s strategy, brand, and creative goals, as well as our own quality standards.
- Setup and schedule creative brief-in, kickoff, and creative reviews in advance; ensure all meetings have clear agendas, meeting recap notes, and actionable next steps.
- Your 5+ years of experience in digital transformation, advertising or production have made you fabulous at dealing with stress and phenomenal at communicating with (stressed-out) clients and coworkers.
- You have the ability to internalise client requests and manage expectations.
- You have extensive experience leading various project types, including social programs, multi-platform implementation and multi-language .coms, mobile, video and brand.
- You have incredible organization, communication and documentation skills. You excel at juggling multiple spinning plates that are all moving in different directions, with varying deadlines.
- Staying organized and communication is your forte. You understand the importance of taking and distributing notes after meetings, to ensure the team is aligned and has clear objectives.
- High competency and proven track record of project management of large engagements and integrated creative projects.
- Experience with working with UX/UI and Development teams in a project management capacity
- Ability to work collaboratively and confidently with multiple team members across departments (legal, sales, graphic designers, leadership team members, engineers, etc.)
- Spreadsheets are your natural habitat, project management tools your best friend (e.g., TeamGantt, Resource Management, Basecamp, Post-it notes).
- You are proactive, solution-minded, have sight over the outcome yet focused on tactical delivery too.
- Previous experience in working on Adobe products, and Social Media Management tools.
- You are open to extensive travel to Saudi Arabia.
- Responsible for resourcing and implementing security controls for your teams processes and systems
- Responsible that all your personnel apply information security in accordance with the established information security policy
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