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Director Project Management, Creative

CBS Interactive

Burbank, CA 09-11-2020
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description

DESCRIPTION:

Role Details:

The year ahead for ViacomCBS is an exciting one. Our new broad pay streaming product will expand CBS All Access by adding the company's scaled assets in film and TV, including world-renowned brands, and reaffirm and expand the value of entertainment, news and sports - through on-demand and live experiences - for audiences around the world. To help us navigate this rapid expansion, the CBS All Access Creative Marketing team is actively seeking a Director of Project Management to work cross-functionally with internal teams, partners, and agencies to drive continuous process improvement, ensure project briefs are effective and complete, and deliverables are achieved. We are looking for a quality individual who has solid experience streamlining creative workstreams, leading highly-complex projects and helping to bring them in on time and on budget. It is important that this individual takes initiative, enjoys digital product development in a supportive team environment and wants to have fun.

Your Day-to-Day:
• Collaborate across functions to ensure successful implementation of new operational processes and continuous improvement
• Analyze multiple simultaneous projects and report metrics around project volume and what's been accomplished by using data to drive decision-making
• Supervise creative project workflow by planning, tracking, managing and driving all steps in the creative life cycle, including dependencies
• Lead communication of timelines, status updates and potential risks to the project team. Partner with internal teams to identify issues early and suggest workable solutions
• Identify weaknesses in project management systems and work to improve them
• Work with agencies, the internal creative group and creative marketing teams to assess initial requests for information, project parameters, priority scheduling, and creation of all deliverables against established deadlines and marketing strategies
• Manage and liaison with other Project Managers
• Take notes in meetings, gathering feedback, and facilitating consolidation

Key Projects:
• Partner with agencies and marketing teams within ViacomCBS to help drive the expansion of CBS All Access
• Help streamline project management workflows and processes
• Develop project timelines for creative coming from external creative agencies and in-house teams
• Ensure results from creative testing is shared with design and product teams

QUALIFICATIONS:

What you bring to the team:

You have:
• BA/BS
• Significant experience working in production management/digital marketing/creative agency and/or professional services/consulting
• Proven history of leading complex projects with tight deadlines and multiple dependencies
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with multiple partners at all levels of a corporate organization
• Adaptable and able to change gears quickly and nimbly when changes happen to process and projects through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Able to foresee potential risks or communication conflicts and / or gaps and proactively work to mitigate challenges
• Superb verbal and written communication skills to relay information simply and clearly to creative marketing and cross-functional departments
• Ability to see the big picture while also focusing on the details
• Calm, balanced, level-headed, and collaborative in nature

You might also have:
• Extensive JIRA and project management software experience
• Project Management certification(s)

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gpkn0e-13-59-218-147-42 in your application.

Company Profile
CBS Interactive

CBS Interactive is the premier online content network for information and online operations of ViacomCBS as well as some of the top native digital brands in the entertainment industry.