Project Manager

About CNP

Recognized by AdAge and Florida Trend as one of the best places to work, CNP is an award-winning, integrated marketing agency serving a national client base out of Winter Haven, Florida. For nearly 30 years, we’ve served clients in tourism, financial services, higher education and B2B, with the goal of helping them standout, grow and become wildly successful.

About the Position

The Project Manager is responsible for managing the day-to-day flow of work through the agency, coordinating all project phases, resource management, and approvals from project initiation through in-market delivery, you’ll ensure projects meet or exceed expectations and are delivered on-time.

The Project Manager will have a strong understanding of agency working processes and an empathy with cross-functional team members both intaking projects and executing work. In addition, this Project Manager will proactively partner with the Account Service team on a regular basis to holistically understand client project priorities and help outline forecasted client workload to aid in agency planning efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

Creating and managing project schedules that outline project milestones from initiation to in-market delivery that are based on scope, timing, budget and resources.
Provides leadership and comprehensive direction to cross-functional team members to ensure project success and that resources are being utilized
Holistic project planning and management for both medium and complex scopes of work
Encourage collaboration between teams
Identifying any deliverables that might fall behind schedule and delegate responsibilities among team members to ensure timeline completion.
Coordinating all workflow phases, schedule management, and approvals from project initiation through delivery in-market, you’ll ensure projects meet or exceed expectations and are delivered on-time.
Scheduling, facilitating, and recapping project related team meetings (e.g. – project kick-offs, internal reviews, production inputs, and lessons learned).
Be passionate about people and thrive well in high-stress and in a fast paced environment with high energy and passion for the work.

Desired Skills & Expertise:

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business or related field; or equivalent in experience
3-5 years’ experience in project management
Expertise in Project Management Institute (PMI) principles
Demonstrated ability to create and manage medium to complex marketing projects (campaigns, websites, social, video, broadcast, print)
Positive attitude, flexible, works well under pressure
Strong time management skills
Proven ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with team members of various personality types
Intense desire to excel in an entrepreneurial, collaborative environment
Demonstrates initiative; is proactive
Detail-oriented
Excellent computer skills, with experience utilizing project management software
Supremely self-confident and fun to work with
Learns equally from successes and failures
Possess a profound curiosity, and never afraid to ask “why?”
Ability to influence project team members to identify and address project issues, including leadership and interdependent teams, and to promote self-directed teams.
Must be extremely organized, multi-tasker, strong problem solving and negotiating skills and detail oriented combined with a passion for generating results.

Bonus Points For:

Agency or in-house marketing team experience
Experience in higher education enrollment, admissions or advancement
Experience with Workamajig or other Agency ERP or PM softwares
CAPM or PMP certification

Salary and Benefits

Benefits include fully paid healthcare, vision, dental, life insurance, disability, 401k (with company match), open vacation policy, cell phone, gym membership, high-end equipment and a $200 check on your birthday (!) … not to mention competitive pay and top-notch co-workers.