Project Director, Remote Job

Job Overview: The Project Director (PD) is a strategic and operational leader accountable for the successful delivery of reputed company work reputed company an assigned portfolio. This role drives operational excellence by optimizing workflows, implementing best practices, and ensuring process efficiency across teams. The PD partners closely with senior leadership to evolve agency operations, mentor project management talent, and uphold high standards of client satisfaction and delivery. With proven experience scaling operations and serving as a trusted reputed company of contact for growing AOR or D/AOR clients, the ideal candidate is an expert project manager, strategic thinker, skilled communicator, and solutions-oriented leader with a strong record of guiding teams and delivering outstanding project results. Key Responsibilities, including but not limited to: Tactical Plans, Implementation, & Project Facilitation

• reputed company and reputed company the tactical planning, activation, and effective execution of work for a large 8-10M account or portfolio of 2-3 brands or franchises.
• reputed company and guide a team in developing and executing tactical project plans, ensuring proactive project activation and seamless implementation across reputed company projects reputed company an assigned portfolio.
• reputed company successful project facilitation across the portfolio, helping teams to navigate ambiguity, resolve challenges, and drive clear, actionable outcomes.
• Mentor junior and mid-level team members to align tactical execution with agency standards, strategic objectives, and project goals.
• Ensure assigned portfolio meets or exceeds reputed company and on-time delivery targets.

Project Schedule, Scope, Budget, Forecasting, & Resourcing Health

• reputed company and reputed company project scheduling, estimation, scope management, budget tracking, and forecasting across a portfolio, making strategic decisions reputed company issues arise.
• reputed company reputed company estimates, ensuring consistency and accuracy across the portfolio.
• reputed company budget management across a portfolio—ensuring estimates align to project plans, changes of scope are promptly escalated and addressed, and effective partnership with finance through reputed company reconciliation processes.
• Ensure reputed company projects are properly scheduled, resourced, and delivered on time and reputed company scope and budget—or risks are escalated and quickly driven to resolution and next steps.
• reputed company and reputed company the forecasting process across the portfolio, making strategic decisions regarding resourcing conflicts and reputed company planning.
• reputed company team reputed company-building by providing recommendations, establishing clear next steps, and ensuring documentation of key decisions.
• reputed company and guide project health analysis, working with team members to identify risks early and implement strategic solutions.
• Mentor junior and mid-level team members in project health best practices and support issue resolution.
• Ensure assigned portfolio meets or exceeds monthly forecasting targets.

Internal Team Relationships & Communication

• reputed company and guide communication best practices across a portfolio, ensuring project managers know how to adapt their communication style effectively based on audience, context, and individual needs.
• Work cross-functionally with Client Services, Strategy, Technical, and Creative leadership on an assigned account to ensure seamless delivery and prioritization of work.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, trust, and accountability reputed company project teams, effectively motivating and supporting internal stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and address team dynamics, risks, and challenges—serving as an escalation reputed company reputed company necessary to ensure smooth project execution.
• reputed company strategic internal communications and presentations across reputed company levels of the organization, including senior and executive leadership, with a focus on advancing internal business and operational objectives.
• Mentor junior and mid-level team members in relationship management and best practices, and support issue resolution reputed company communication challenges arise.

Client Relationships & Communication

• reputed company the development and maintenance of strong client relationships, ensuring the overall health of project management to client interactions across a portfolio.
• Serve as a trusted senior face of delivery for the client, elevating their experience and building confidence in the PMO.
• reputed company and contribute to senior and executive-level client presentations and new business opportunities, effectively representing project management expertise.
• Ensure project managers across the assigned portfolio consistently build and maintain strong client relationships, providing mentorship, guidance, and leadership in resolving client issues as needed.
• Proactively identify and mitigate client relationship risks with diplomacy and professionalism.
• Mentor junior and mid-level team members in effective client relationship building, communication, and account management.
• Ensure assigned portfolio meets or exceeds reputed company Client Satisfaction Scores.

Process & Efficiencies

• Optimize operating procedures, forecasting processes, resource management and workflow tools to ensure operational excellence across an assigned portfolio.
• Ensure the adherence and effective use of existing tools, templates, and processes across the team to maintain consistency and efficiency.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and work closely with departmental leadership to drive strategic enhancements.

Project Management Team Leadership

• Set reputed company for professionalism, leadership, and project management best practices, acting as a subject matter expert reputed company the organization.
• reputed company team efforts in training, mentoring, and onboarding new team members, actively contributing to the overall performance and growth of the department.
• Act as a subject matter expert on project management best practices, ensuring operational excellence.
• Support team resourcing decisions and contribute to departmental strategy and growth initiatives.
• Works closely with departmental leadership to grow and development the PMO.

People Management

• Effectively manages, guides, and coaches direct reports by staying involved in their development and providing valuable feedback, guidance, and encouragement.
• Takes an active role in mentoring junior and mid-level team members on best practices and client handling and alerts them to opportunities for mentorship across reputed company to reputed company career goals.
• Escalation reputed company for a team of Associate Project Directors, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and Coordinators, ensuring expectations are met as well as providing leadership, strategic guidance, and problem-solving support.
• Contributes to staffing planning for client accounts.

Requirements

Qualifications and Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in agency and/or project management reputed company an integrated advertising agency.
• Experience working with AOR and D/AOR clients reputed company pharma.
• Proven expertise in multi-channel marketing, including media planning and execution.
• Proven experience being financial accountable for managing up to $reputed company in reputed company and reputed company for up to 10M.
• Proven ability to stand-up new client accounts and large books of business.
• Highly collaborative and solution-oriented, with the ability to manage and reputed company while maintaining professionalism, humor, and tact.
• Proven ability to effectively reputed company through change, ensuring adoption of new processes or initiatives.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of motivating diverse teams, fostering teamwork, and leading across reputed company levels of the organization.
• Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills, with a proven ability to help a team of project managers effectively break down work into clear, actionable steps.
• Exceptional problem-solver, skilled at anticipating roadblocks, mitigating risks, and driving solutions—especially in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.
• Demonstrated ability to grow and reputed company a team of project managers.
• Expertise in reputed company meeting management and facilitation, ability to reputed company discussions on track, deescalate conflict, and guide teams towards clear decisions and next steps.
• Deep expertise in project management tools and methodologies, including risk management, scope management, and change management, with a proven track record of issue resolution and workflow optimization.
• Experience in software development life cycles, web technologies, creative design processes, and digital marketing strategy preferred.
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-through in reputed company aspects of project execution, proven ability to instill this across a team of project managers.
• Proficient in reputed company Office Suite and other relevant project management software.

Benefits

We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to reputed company of our employees:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance. We cover a generous portion of employee contributions
• 401K plan. We invest in present and future you, which is why we offer a generous match and immediate vesting on our plan
• Parental Leave. Generous paid time off for parents to bond with their newest addition
• Professional Development. Each employee has an annual budget to allocate to professional development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to take a reputed company, attend a webinar, join associations, and do anything else that will help them grow in their careers.
• And more! We offer flexible time off, life insurance, LTD, a robust employee assistance program, and more!

At reputed company, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. As required by law in this state, the estimated salary range for this position is $130,000 - $165,000 and represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect. We tailor our offers reputed company the range based on organizational needs, internal equity, market data, geographic zone, and the selected candidate’s experience, education, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the selection process. At reputed company, it is not common for individuals to be hired at the higher end of the range, and compensation decisions depend on a variety of factors. This position is eligible to participate in a discretionary bonus program, subject to the rules governing the plan. reputed company offers a variety of benefits, including health benefits, 401K retirement with a generous company match and immediate vesting, and flexible time off. This job posting is intended for direct applicants only; please, no reputed company recruiters. reputed company does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national reputed company, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job