Project Execution Lead
Salt Lake City, UT 
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Job Description

MRM has an exciting opportunity to work on one of our top global accounts, Microsoft, as the Project Execution Lead - with focus on Events and Integrated Marketing Campaigns.


What is your role, and how does it positively impact the business?

You will support and enable local marketing program execution through centralised marketing services and provide expertise in Events and Integrated Marketing Campaigns. This includes end-to-end planning, execution and tracking program performance. Specifically for Events, you will operationalize both in-person and virtual events throughout the year. As part of the team, you will play a major role in ensuring the success of integrated marketing, events and driving continual improvement and measurement of future events.

Your core day-to-day responsibilities include:

Service Management: Overall accountability for campaign deliverables and is the single point of contact for our clients.

Service Deployment & Readiness: Drives service quality, consistency & innovation through leading practice sharing and overall participation and cooperation in the marketing services community.

Team Management: oversee the events team which includes both in-person and virtual event coordinators. This includes on-boarding team members as well as the continued development and training of this team. This role ensures that the team is briefed on all area and global initiatives.

Stakeholder Engagement: Engages with functional stakeholders to set expectations on service delivery. Provides consultative support and recommendations, collaborating with Regional Leads and Global leads.

Global Community Engagement: Shares best practices with Team Leads across the region and participates in community calls.

Best Practice Sharing: Curates and showcases Area finding and practices and shares these with the global community.

Required Competencies/Skills:

* Proven skills in written and verbal communications

* Intermediate to advanced project management strategies and tools

* Basic business, systems, and process analysis

* Demonstrated understanding of event marketing and the tools and platforms that support it.

* Ability to articulate and evangelize services with stakeholders

* Relationship management, collaboration and conflict resolution skills

* Knowledge of Microsoft brand and products

Required Experience:

* Bachelor's Degree preferred

* 2-3 years solid project management experience (agency or client side)

Desired Characteristics:

* Self-starter - Have a proactive attitude and a desire to find creative solutions.

* Team player - Focus on winning as a team rather than individually. Be cooperative and collaborative.

* Open-minded - Be able to work effectively across different teams and personalities. Be flexible and adaptable.

* Detail-oriented - Treat the work as your own and be able to analyze.

* Cool-headed - Be patient and even tempered.

* Drive for results - Be tough and persistent, and know when to research vs. when to make a quick decision.

* Client service oriented - Be positive and optimistic.

About MRM

MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency that delivers transformative creative solutions at the intersection of business, culture, and technology. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way, to allow for greater collaboration and velocity-all to the service of helping businesses grow meaningful relationships with people. MRM is part of McCann Worldgroup and the Interpublic Group of companies (NYSE: IPG), and spans 35 offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit

We love our diverse workplace! MRM is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.

 

Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
2 to 3 years
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