Fallon is a creatively-led advertising agency committed to helping brands create value in the world. The Program Manager is responsible for managing mid-to-large scale client projects, ensuring delivery efficiency and quality while collaborating with various agency stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Manage medium-scale projects end to end, from strategy brief to asset delivery. Work with strategy, creative, account, and production teams to ensure smooth delivery of deliverables and assets, while also facilitating communications between teams
- Partner with Creative to effectively shepherd and manage the evolution of creative work, ensuring quality at all points from concept through delivery. Active partnership with Resource Management, Production, and Technology departments to ensure connections and collaborations happen where they should, in support of innovative and award-winning creative ideas
- Provide solutions-oriented program management with a willingness to creatively solve problems with a positive, professional demeanor and emotional intelligence
- Develop scopes, staffing plans, and estimates for medium-scale projects and engagements, with direct manager supervision and support. Responsible for the scoping and management of multiple concurrent projects and client engagements totaling up to $1-3MM annually
- Engage with Resource Management and Finance as appropriate for staffing, scoping and estimating. Work closely with direct supervisors and team members identify flags, find solutions, and manage up
- Contribute to a culture of delivery efficiency and excellence within the Program Management department
- Maintain departmental values, vision, direction and responsibilities with project stakeholders
- Work with account and client stakeholders to instill and enforce processes, workflows and tools that support the profitable delivery of client work
- Partner with Client Services and Finance stakeholders to actively manage business challenges, client relationships, develop project plans, and maintain profit margin
- Partner with internal team to help optimize existing operational processes and systems
Skills
- 1-3 years project or program management experience in a creative services organization working with cross-functional stakeholders including strategy, data and planning, creative, editorial, experience design, production, technology, operations and resourcing
- Demonstrated understanding of project management methodologies, process and tools, including staffing, scoping, estimating, burn management
- Working knowledge of MS Office, project management software (JIRA, Basecamp, etc.), and project management software (MS Project, Smartsheet)
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- 401K
- Parental and family care leave
- Family forming assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible time off
- Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met.
- Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met.
- For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.
Company Overview
On the day Fallon opened its doors without a single client, it did so under the headline, “A new advertising agency for companies that would rather outsmart the competition than outspend them.” More than 40 years later, and this mantra is unwavering. It was founded in 1981, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.fallon.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Fallon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.