Co-op Student - Commerce, Business Admin, Economics, Data Analytics - Fall 2024

OVERVIEW

The freelance Project Manager provides assistance with a variety of digital marketing projects, coordinating project execution from start to finish, working closely with our different agency teams, ensuring on-time and on-scope delivery within the high standards of the agency.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

Project Scoping:

• Work with the department leads to develop scopes of work, based on business and functional requirements.
• Project estimation: coordinate with agency departments to gather estimates in order to create master project estimate / budget
• Assist the Account Supervisor/Director in the creation of proposals and project plans

Project Management:

• Develop, implement and manage project plans
• Timeline development: assist in the creation and management of project timelines to ensure that all projects are delivered on time and on budget
• Create and update project spaces and timelines in our project management tool (Clickup)
• Resource booking: Responsible for allocation and booking of Creative, Strategic, UX, Developer and QA internal and external resources on projects in conjunction with our directors of production.
• Develop briefs for day to day project deliverables and brief team members responsible for executing the work
• Project time and profitability tracking and reporting to senior CS team members
• Communicate project status to internal teams on a regular basis
• Update the client status sheet for the account team
• Ensure scope changes and new requirements are adaquately communicated to project teams
• Contest management: Coordination with Regie des courses et des jeux and contest winners for prize fulfillment
• Asset management: ensuring that agency teams receive assets and trafficking details for campaigns, receiving, sending and filing of client assets
• Ensures high quality work output that is on strategy and on brand

Digital Marketing Coordination:

• Email production management and deployment
• Content management: Website content population
• QA tasks

The Freelance project manager may also be called upon to assist with the following tasks:

• May be client facing at times in certain situations
• Assist the Account Director and the account team with quarterly production planning
• Create Statements of Work in our internal financial system and assist with other financial tasks

WHAT WILL YOU BRING

• Proven project management and administration skills
• Integrated digital campaign and project experience (ad creation, web, social, email)
• Knowledge of Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a plus
• Is familiar with and adept at website content population (CMS)
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Enjoys past-paced environment and used to working within tight deadlines
• Ability to work on complex projects with many stakeholders and partners
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English (working knowledge of French is definitely a plus)
• Ability to dive quickly into a new project and take control quickly and efficiently
• Resourceful, tenacious, detail oriented and driven to meet deadlines
• Prior customer service experience is a plus
• Provides clear visibility on availability and workload, and is able to jump in quickly when needed