Project Manager
Warner Music Group
Burbank, CAThis was removed by the employer on 4/9/2015 1:44:00 PM PST
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Department Description:
The WEA Consumer Sales & Marketing team supports Warner Music’s iconic labels in their direct-to-consumer businesses by offering business and operational services across a number of areas including e-commerce, data and analytics, web property production and operations, and direct marketing and email.
High Level Job Description:
The Project Manager is primarily responsible for the on-time delivery of projects across the Consumer Sales & Marketing service areas including e-commerce, artist.com, email marketing and other interactive tools. The Project Manager works with team members across the various Consumer Sales & Marketing service areas, project managers and creative teams from all labels, vendor project teams, and the Sr. Project Manager to ensure that the project team is poised to meet the project objectives and goals on time and on budget. The Project Manager’s main responsibility will be to support label facing consumer projects related to artist websites and web stores when needed.
The Project Manager is an exceptional communicator who knows how to identify and mitigate risks before they become issues on projects with multiple stakeholders and personalities in a creative, entertainment focused environment.
Detailed Job Description/ Responsibilities:
• Responsible for developing and managing the project plan and working with discipline leads and project teams to execute on plans.
• Responsible for the execution of projects across various platforms, project teams and vendors
• Monitor day-to-day activities of the project team and ensure work is progressing as planned. Work with project team and be actively involved in all aspects of the work.
• Manage schedules, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure requirements and project delivery dates are clearly communicated, understood and executed upon.
• Work with multiple stakeholders to plan and prioritize the backlog of projects and requests
• Effectively and efficiently plan all resources working across project(s) based on scope of work and project goals.
• Actively monitor project risks and scope creep to foresee/identify potential problems and proactively identify solutions to address them in advance.
• Consistently identify needs that Clients may not recognize and ensure approaches and solutions are linked to objectives and future needs.
• Continuously manage client expectations, ensure delivery of the highest quality service, and solicit and act on client feedback.
• Communicate and document project status and strategic recommendations to clients, team members and senior management on a regular basis; escalate issues accordingly via the appropriate channels.
• Conduct project post mortems and proactively identify opportunities for improvement to all process and tools used in the execution of project activities.
• Partner with product management leads to present work to stakeholders where required.
Required Competencies/Skills:
• Proven track record with executing small to medium scale projects with large, diverse project teams
• Knows the difference between a risk and an issue and understands how to identify and manage one from becoming the other.
• Ability to create, manage, and deliver against interdependent project plans
• Ability to lead daily scrum meetings to ensure deadlines and roles are clearly defined
• Knowledge in e-commerce, email marketing and analytics areas
• Experience in Agile and Scrum based project management.
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communications skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and support cross-functional project teams.
• Ability to understand and document project requirements and dependencies.
• Understanding of business and functional requirements.
• Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical.
• Competencies in Basecamp, issue tracking software such as Jira, wiki tools and other related project management and communications tools are required.
Education Required:
• 3-5 years of experience in interactive project management
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience in a digital agency environment, servicing multiple clients and passion for music are major pluses.?
Our Company is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national Origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, familial status, military or veteran status, or any other legal recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws and the Company complies with all applicable reasonable accommodation requirements which such laws may require. Accordingly, please inform the Company’s Human Resources representative if you need an accommodation in order for you to complete any employment application-related forms or otherwise to participate in the application or selection process for the position for which you are applying. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity and will enable applicants to participate in the application and selection process and for employees to perform the essential functions of their jobs without imposing undue hardship on our Company. The Company also will make reasonable accommodations to an applicants or employee’s religious beliefs and practices as may be required by law, unless an undue hardship would result.