Senior Project Manager (PH)

VaynerX (https://vaynerx.com) is the most contemporary family of companies, working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce.

We’re lucky that everyone within our walls thinks creatively, shares a passion for building communities, and understands the world of both big campaigns and social micro-content.

Our Project Managers enjoy working in a fast paced environment and love the challenge of discovering what drives and moves consumers. Our Singapore office is hunting the APAC landscape for a passionate and driven Senior PM that will lead a global brand account and continually review and optimize the work team produces, and collaborate with the project management team to establish effective ways to lead teams and processes.

• Life Cycle Management
• Plans, mobilizes and manages projects holistically, keeping them organized and moving smoothly from start to finish to ensure successful completion.
• Demonstrates ability to build accurate project plans with budget, schedules, resources, and processes in mind. 
• Write and execute statement of work, scope, cost estimate, tasks, timeline, budget, and development based on project requirements and plans.
• Organization
• Keeps information clear, accessible, and accurate.  
• Ensures assets and materials are tracked, organized, categorized, and delivered consistently, efficiently, and effectively.
• Framework, Process & Requirement
• Understands and uses agency tools e.g Workfront and processes to streamline project planning, mobilization, and management. 
• Operationalize people's time and their work optimize team's availability through effective resources management
• Plan key touch points such as kick-offs, brainstorms, and deliverable reviews.
• Ensures teams and work follow agency, client, advertising frameworks/best practices and legal requirements.
• Drive Operations Excellence - Provide suggestions on ways to optimize through close collaboration with finance, client service, operations, and legal on project and client requirements.
• Strategic Understanding
• Understands the purpose, context, and implications of key parts of their role as it relates to the larger organization.  
• Focuses on big picture thinking and analyzing information that demonstrates an understanding of the "why" for clients, the team, and the work.
• Problem Solving
• Ability to think critically about a problem and proactively find effective and sustainable solutions to help resolve.  
• Applies learnings from prior projects/experiences to the current work.
• People Management
• Build and cultivate strong and collaborative partnerships with team members cross-departmentally in order to successfully drive the work forward for the team, business and client.
• Communication
• Ability to apply active listening in order to gather deeper context & insights to fully understand the needs of the team.  
• Using appropriate, transparent, and accurate details & context when communicating.  
• Being clear and effective to specific audiences (whether it's written or verbal). 
• Proactivity
• Self-starter in daily tasks; works well independently and as part of the team.
• Ability to adapt to different situations and make proactive adjustments where necessary. 
• Intrinsically motivated to continuously grow and learn in role.  
• Drive quality in end product.  
• Demonstrate pride in the process and product, and take accountability for the work

• 5+ years of experience managing projects, coordinating teams, and other planning-related duties, preferably in the digital ad or media space.
• Time management is your cup of tea.
• Experience in budget development and contract (SOW) writing.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Out of the box lead and practical hands-on experience in project management.
• You make and lead stuff to happen.
• Hungry for great work (and good food)
• Must have a life outside work.
• And did we mention project scoping?

Think “lab” and not “agency”. We get excited about solving business problems, not creating advertising for the sake of making advertising. Our entrepreneurship DNA runs deep. We’re willing to break rules, try new things, and test hypotheses if it means better understanding our craft. It’s fun!

Our environment (and pace) feels much more like a start-up than most agencies you might be used to. Hopefully that, and the opportunity to collaborate with the talented and enthusiastic crew, work with big brands excites you, as it does us. We can’t wait to meet you.