Browse
Employers / Recruiters

VP, Project Management

DJE Holdings · 30+ days ago
New York
Negotiable
Full-time
Continue
By pressing the button above, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy, and agree to receive email job alerts. You can unsubscribe anytime.
UEG is an award-winning global agency that specializes in making brands famous. We create breakthrough marketing campaigns by partnering brands with the people, places and platforms that shape pop-culture. Our business specializes in the entertainment, sports, and lifestyle space and provides a full suite of services that include celebrity and influencer programming, music-film-tv/digital-sports partnerships, communications, branded content, and experiential. 

The team at UEG is a dynamic group, bringing together best-in-class expertise across entertainment, sports, and lifestyle, paired with a strong understanding of brand building and effective marketing communications. This is an environment where we combine true passion for culture with the innate desire to create industry-changing work for our clients. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a process-building, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. This VP, Project Management role will operate out of UEG’s New York office. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm and is eager to be the best in the business. Our VP, Project Management will have a deep experience in building and evangelizing integrated project management teams and will be recognized as a go-to for high priority new business, core client program definition, delivery best practices, and PM team leadership. 

About Your Day-to-Day:
 
This role is responsible for providing structure and overall delivery vision on projects and for overseeing a client portfolio consisting of multiple work streams and disciplines, with embedded leadership across our teams. Serving as the overall program management lead, they oversee a team of project managers that lead schedules, deliverables, priorities and teams towards flawless execution. We are seeking a strategic core team leader and counselor to Account and Specialty leads in program management, project delivery approach and financial health. 

This role is NYC based.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Lead project management in partnership with discipline leads, collaborating cross functionally with our account, practice, finance and operations teams  
  • Oversee wholistic workflow with a mix of individual client and portfolio management  
  • Own the intake of new work (new clients and existing core clients) and the evaluation of new briefs, devising delivery approaches for each assignment drawing on PM best practices  
  • Own and manage project definition in scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, producing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort. 
  • Champion project management tools and best practices that standardize how to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation. 
  • Own the delivery of large, complex programs independently and with support from more junior project managers. 
  • Serve as an escalation point to manage risks and provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, controlling project scope and the change control process, and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions. 
  • Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure clients are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate and SOWs are approved. 
  • Drive client discussions related to project plans, financial health, UEG capabilities and approach to delivery. 
  • Partner with resource management and specialty leads to forecast current and future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work. 
  • Establish workflow and best practices on integrated businesses that enable teams to efficiently deliver against program goals. 
  • Ensure quality checks and consistency of all outputs across all project deliverables 
  • Ensure flexibility in approaches to fit client, creative, and business needs, while managing change and the exploration of various budget/time scenarios to elevate work. 
  • Contribute to project operations and “the work behind the work” – prioritizing new project opportunities, establishing flexible frameworks and best practices with new teams, and providing input on PM team assignments. 
  • Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident leadership at all times. 

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant field 
  • At least 9+ years of project management experience in an integrated marketing agency or related industry  
  • Mastery of large, complex project delivery on integrated programs, from planning through execution  
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate teams, foster career development and oversee performance of junior to mid-level team members 
  • Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and/or Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool) is required. 

Last updated on Feb 4, 2025

See more

About the company

DJE HoldingsDJE Holdings is an investment firm that focuses on acquiring and building businesses in the financial services, technology, and healthcare sectors.

More jobs at DJE Holdings

Analyzing

London, England

 · 

30+ days ago

London, England

 · 

30+ days ago

São Paulo, State of São Paulo

 · 

30+ days ago

Washington, District of Columbia

 · 

30+ days ago

Washington, District of Columbia

 · 

30+ days ago

More jobs like this

Analyzing
Project Management Co-ordinator$84k+
TI
Talisman Inc. ·  Risk management and consulting

Houston, Texas

 · 

30+ days ago

Security Project Manager$131k+
C
crjdnwsnowo2i4nz45b1teboszrxlg0351vr73gpqw7yanury9u287prckhdnkww

San Jose, California

 · 

30+ days ago

Houston, Texas

 · 

30+ days ago

Remote

 · 

30+ days ago

Delivery Manager (1912222031)$131k+
9
9xjdnwf8nt489qdiu4ab0qq7clsnet01f27n6pjaxju02yq1u697ou3dvfougsq9

Santa Clara, California

 · 

30+ days ago

Remote

 · 

30+ days ago

Fredericksburg, Virginia

 · 

30+ days ago

Ontario, California

 · 

30+ days ago

Fredericksburg, Virginia

 · 

30+ days ago

Developed by Blake and Linh in the US and Vietnam.
We're interested in hearing what you like and don't like! Live chat with our founder or join our Discord
Changelog
🚀 LaunchpadNov 27
Create a site and sell services based on your CV.
🔥 Job search dashboardNov 13
Revamped job search UI with a sortable grid, live filtering, bookmarks, and application tracking.
🫡 Cover letter instructionsSep 27
New Studio settings give you control over AI output.
✨ Cover Letter StudioAug 9
Automatically generate cover letters for any job.
🎯 Suggested filtersAug 6
Copilot suggests additional filters above the results.
⚡️ Quick applicationsAug 2
Apply to jobs using info from your CV. Initial coverage of ~200k jobs in Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, and the Netherlands.
🧠 Job AnalysisJul 12
Have Copilot read job descriptions and extract out key info you want to know. Click "Analyze All" to try it out. Click on the Copilot's gear icon to customize the prompt.
© 2024 RemoteAmbitionAffiliate · Privacy · Terms · Sitemap · Status