Partnerships Project Manager

Job Description

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.
Overview:

The Paramount+ Partnerships Project Manager supports Partnerships marketing campaigns and workflow planning for the Partnerships and Marketing Operations teams. This person drives end-to-end project management and tracking of partnerships marketing campaigns, and provides cross-functional support. Additionally, they ensure cohesive, coordinated workflows, and communication throughout the lifecycle of a campaign. We are looking for a highly collaborative individual who has proven experience with marketing teams, leading complex projects in a matrixed organization!

The Central Project Management Office (PMO) within the Marketing, Data & Operations organization, is a team that serves as the through-line (with the combination of project and program management) supporting the organization's diverse functions and touch points into Paramount+ and Pluto TV. We are at the cross-section of several functions, including (but not limited to) Consumer & Creative Marketing, Marketing Production, Content Strategy, Data & Insights group, Content, Business and Ad Operations, Podcasts, Marketing Acquisitions & Campaign Services, Audience Strategy & Search and more, all anchored around our Paramount+ subscription streaming service and Pluto TV, our ad-supported streaming service.

Responsibilities:
• Lead project management of multiple partnership marketing campaigns simultaneously
• Assess project parameters, priority scheduling, information requests, and deliverable timelines
• Ensure the Creative, Brand Marketing, Campaign Project Management, Legal, and Product teams, as well as external partners, have all of the information and resources required to start a project prior to kick-off
• Set, track, and distribute timelines based on coordinated workflows and individual deliverable needs
• Lead teams toward key achievements
• Adjust timelines and workflows to avoid time-sensitive bottlenecks. Enable pivots as needed.
• Maintain clear project tracking, status, risk assessments in project management systems.
• Identify issues early and suggest workable solutions or improvements to current systems, processes, and tools
• Maintain oversight of deliverables status and facilitate routing through approvals
• Alert campaign team and leadership of any variations to schedule
• Lead meetings, drive agendas and cross-functional communication, share recaps and next steps
• Prepare and distribute weekly status reports and achievement calendars
• Develop and maintain key relationships with internal & external partners, driving a culture of collaboration to build achievable and measurable project plans

Basic Qualification:
• BA/ BS in Business, Marketing, or related field
• 2+ years working in 360 campaign project management with experience in digital marketing, CRM or a marketing operations role
• Experience handling digital marketing, product marketing, and/or marketing operations teams
• Shown history of leading complex projects and campaigns with tight deadlines and multiple dependencies across numerous groups
• Experience handling campaign lifecycle using task and workflow management tools such as Asana, Jira, Monday.com or similar
• Superb verbal and written communication skills to relay information simply and clearly to marketing and cross functional departments
• Can see the big picture and strategy and how seeming disparate pieces of information may align, while also being laser-focused on the small details
• Calm, balanced, level-headed, and synergic in nature

Additional Qualification:
• Knowledgable in digital media entertainment environment with multiple collaborators and highly matrixed teams
• PMP certification a plus!

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Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0e4m6-3-149-251-154-42 in your application.