Does a completed task list make your heart sing? When working with stakeholders, do you balance friendliness with a firm, fierce adherence to timelines and schedules? Do you thrive on creating process—but love the flexibility of a creative team?

 

If so, this might be the position for you!

 

The Laserfiche Marcom team is looking for a project manager who will be responsible for daily project oversight and management of our company’s multi-platform projects. You’ll improve and maintain our request process and oversee progress to ensure that each project is completed on time.

 

The ideal candidate will have experience working in a fast-paced corporate marketing or advertising environment, and must be able to work in close partnership with other managers and departments to coordinate projects. You should not only be organized, but also able to clearly dictate and communicate deadlines, in addition to managing stakeholder expectations.

 

If you’re ready to help our creative team reach new heights of productivity, we want to talk to you!

 

Responsibilities include:

 

Project Planning

 

• Manage the pipeline of marketing requests from various teams, including assessing workload allocation
• Appropriately align resources to ensure the successful execution of all projects
• Maintain consistent communication with stakeholders and other team members to manage expectations and proactively pursue completion of outstanding deliverables

 

Project Management

 

• Manage projects, including establishing objectives, determining priorities, managing time and monitoring progress through collaboration tools like Basecamp and Teamwork
• Prioritize new and ongoing projects, and quickly react to real-time changes
• Provide back-up support to team members on projects as needed, including proofing and editing copy
• Route projects for approval as appropriate and ensure all necessary signoffs are secured prior to production
• Manage external print and promotional vendors to ensure competitive pricing, accuracy and high quality standards are being met, including coordinating production and prepress processes
• Fulfill customized e-blast requests including uploading of content in email templates
• Manage and maintain content archive for all marketing collateral to ensure that all departments have access to the most updated marketing materials

 

Project Scheduling

 

• Conduct efficient standup meetings, presentations, and kick off meetings, including completing creative briefs as appropriate
• Attend meetings, develop action plans and follow up with all attendees to reinforce the meeting purpose, outcome and expected responses
• Provide team with long term calendar view of upcoming milestones as well as monthly updates on project status

 

Process Improvement

 

• Optimize the project process to provide faster turnaround of business-critical assets
• Track the effectiveness of completed work and collect metrics about successes and failures for use in future design and marketing strategy
• Work independently as well as in a team, solve problems proactively, and manage time effectively

 

Qualifications:

 

• Four-year degree (BA, BS)
• 3-5 years of experience in project management, marketing, content development, advertising or PR
• Experience with relevant project management and design tools (Adobe Creative Cloud, Basecamp, Teamwork, Google Docs, HubSpot) and Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
• Familiarity with the creative process, including understanding of design and production concepts and processes
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to make reasoned decisions with imperfect or ambiguous information
• Ability to organize and prioritize projects in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
• Enjoy working closely with writers and designers as well as all levels of internal management and staff, strategic clients and vendors