Edward Jones
Senior Marketing Creative Manager - Project Leader
Edward Jones, Tacoma, Washington, us, 98417
Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we’re proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns.
Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
Are you ready to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your leadership will make a lasting impact? We're seeking a Senior Marketing Creative Manager/Project Leader within the Edward Jones Agency to drive innovation, influence key decisions and establish streamlined processes for our firm's first sub-brand, High Net Worth. This program provides our highest tier of comprehensive wealth management experience for our high-net-worth clients. It's dedicated home office teams work alongside financial advisors, and other internal and external partners to deliver highly personalized financial planning, sophisticated plan execution and ongoing support.
Edward Jones Agency (EJA) – the firm's in-house agency - is a high-energy and highly regarded full-service group in pursuit of helping make the Edward Jones brand famous. This Sr. Project Leader role sits within Agency Operations, the department responsible for managing all creative projects and running the business of the EJA. Our purpose is to strategically lead the delivery of creative campaigns for enterprise initiatives, programs and projects to ensure timely completion, so they reach the intended audience. We continuously partner with stakeholders and each other to drive efficiency while supporting a culture of respect, trust, and collaboration.
The Senior Project Leader will work cross-functionally to lead multiple, highly complex campaigns and projects across multiple channels. The role also involves working in diverse teams comprised of internal stakeholders and leaders, as well as external partners that help grow our brand and drive value for our audiences. We are seeking a highly motivated individual that is equal parts senior project leader, critical thinker, self-starter, champion for the work and can thrive in an ever-changing environment.
Responsibilities:
Develops and leads holistic, multi-faceted creative projects and resource plans including project life cycles, project prerequisites, resource requirements, change management processes, risk management, key milestones, communication mechanisms, and deliverables utilizing cross functional, matrix teams to meet business objectives. Works cross-functionally with strategic partners to lead the successful planning, development and delivery of multiple highly complex marketing campaigns and projects, often involving technology components, across all audiences. Timely communication of project status and milestones to keep team, strategic partners, business areas and leadership informed and to drive timely decisions. Anticipates, identifies, and provides solutions to issues and risks by tracking, assigning ownership, following up, understanding and sharing impact on deliverables, cost, resources and schedule with team and stakeholders. Responsible for maintaining ongoing relationship with assigned business areas. Ensures strong working relationships with key stakeholders, matrix project teams, partners, and senior leadership both inside and outside the company. Leads marketing process and project management improvements that result in increased quality, efficiencies, and overall value to the project team, department, or larger organization. Demonstrate deep and thorough understanding of business area fundamentals and key objectives. Utilize marketing project management software to gather, track and report project details, including data entry.
Qualifications Required:
7+ years' project management experience in a corporate marketing or creative agency environment. Advanced expertise in waterfall and agile project management methodologies. Experience in creating and implementing new processes from the ground up, with a focus on optimizing efficiency and driving results in complex environments. Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, communications, business, public relations or related field or equivalent work experience in corporate marketing or creative agency environment. Able to take on multiple highly complex initiatives and effectively adapt to changes, work efficiently and productively under tight deadlines. Responds well to direction, embraces feedback and change, continuous learner. Advanced knowledge of marketing project planning and execution. Strong demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities to meet deadlines and drive effective resource utilization. Ability to manage vendor relationships to ensure projects meet cost and deadline objectives. Must have in-depth knowledge of processes, systems, procedures, and risks related to creative programs/projects. Strong interpersonal and communication skills; effectively communicates with project team, multiple business areas, divisions, senior leaders and outside vendors. Incorporates effective listening and collaboration skills. Strong presentation, organizational and coordination skills. Strong demonstrated ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve elements that can impact a project. Strong strategic, operational, technical marketing and management skills. Qualifications Preferred: Project management certification (PMP and/or Edward Jones) preferred. Certifications in agile project management methodologies. Demonstrated success leading campaigns in collaboration with C-suite, strategic vendor partners and other stakeholders. Proficiency in Workfront.
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Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.
Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging.
People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.
Are you ready to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your leadership will make a lasting impact? We're seeking a Senior Marketing Creative Manager/Project Leader within the Edward Jones Agency to drive innovation, influence key decisions and establish streamlined processes for our firm's first sub-brand, High Net Worth. This program provides our highest tier of comprehensive wealth management experience for our high-net-worth clients. It's dedicated home office teams work alongside financial advisors, and other internal and external partners to deliver highly personalized financial planning, sophisticated plan execution and ongoing support.
Edward Jones Agency (EJA) – the firm's in-house agency - is a high-energy and highly regarded full-service group in pursuit of helping make the Edward Jones brand famous. This Sr. Project Leader role sits within Agency Operations, the department responsible for managing all creative projects and running the business of the EJA. Our purpose is to strategically lead the delivery of creative campaigns for enterprise initiatives, programs and projects to ensure timely completion, so they reach the intended audience. We continuously partner with stakeholders and each other to drive efficiency while supporting a culture of respect, trust, and collaboration.
The Senior Project Leader will work cross-functionally to lead multiple, highly complex campaigns and projects across multiple channels. The role also involves working in diverse teams comprised of internal stakeholders and leaders, as well as external partners that help grow our brand and drive value for our audiences. We are seeking a highly motivated individual that is equal parts senior project leader, critical thinker, self-starter, champion for the work and can thrive in an ever-changing environment.
Responsibilities:
Develops and leads holistic, multi-faceted creative projects and resource plans including project life cycles, project prerequisites, resource requirements, change management processes, risk management, key milestones, communication mechanisms, and deliverables utilizing cross functional, matrix teams to meet business objectives. Works cross-functionally with strategic partners to lead the successful planning, development and delivery of multiple highly complex marketing campaigns and projects, often involving technology components, across all audiences. Timely communication of project status and milestones to keep team, strategic partners, business areas and leadership informed and to drive timely decisions. Anticipates, identifies, and provides solutions to issues and risks by tracking, assigning ownership, following up, understanding and sharing impact on deliverables, cost, resources and schedule with team and stakeholders. Responsible for maintaining ongoing relationship with assigned business areas. Ensures strong working relationships with key stakeholders, matrix project teams, partners, and senior leadership both inside and outside the company. Leads marketing process and project management improvements that result in increased quality, efficiencies, and overall value to the project team, department, or larger organization. Demonstrate deep and thorough understanding of business area fundamentals and key objectives. Utilize marketing project management software to gather, track and report project details, including data entry.
Qualifications Required:
7+ years' project management experience in a corporate marketing or creative agency environment. Advanced expertise in waterfall and agile project management methodologies. Experience in creating and implementing new processes from the ground up, with a focus on optimizing efficiency and driving results in complex environments. Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, communications, business, public relations or related field or equivalent work experience in corporate marketing or creative agency environment. Able to take on multiple highly complex initiatives and effectively adapt to changes, work efficiently and productively under tight deadlines. Responds well to direction, embraces feedback and change, continuous learner. Advanced knowledge of marketing project planning and execution. Strong demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities to meet deadlines and drive effective resource utilization. Ability to manage vendor relationships to ensure projects meet cost and deadline objectives. Must have in-depth knowledge of processes, systems, procedures, and risks related to creative programs/projects. Strong interpersonal and communication skills; effectively communicates with project team, multiple business areas, divisions, senior leaders and outside vendors. Incorporates effective listening and collaboration skills. Strong presentation, organizational and coordination skills. Strong demonstrated ability to independently identify, prioritize, monitor, communicate, and/or resolve elements that can impact a project. Strong strategic, operational, technical marketing and management skills. Qualifications Preferred: Project management certification (PMP and/or Edward Jones) preferred. Certifications in agile project management methodologies. Demonstrated success leading campaigns in collaboration with C-suite, strategic vendor partners and other stakeholders. Proficiency in Workfront.
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