Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Publicis Groupe ANZ is a marketing solutions company that partners with innovative brands. The Associate Project Manager will support high-impact retail merchandising projects, ensuring flawless implementation and managing project workflows across various product categories.
Responsibilities
- Manage small retail merchandising projects independently or support senior project management to lead a portion of a larger engagement on time & on budget while exceeding client expectations. Projects focus on developing, iterating, and distributing retail store planograms at large scale volumes, with a strong focus on product-driven updates. The team is responsible for developing detailed schematics that determine where and how products should be displayed on tables, shelves and fixtures
- Support program management on scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling tasks
- Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
- Anticipate, identify, and communicate risks, seeking guidance from senior leads to assist in mitigating any issues
- Provide ongoing monitoring of progress such as project status, issue resolution, task and allocation management, and timeline tracking; consult with team and adjust as needed
- Adopt automation and embrace tools to streamline efficiency
- Exceptional attention to detail is crucial to ensure all aspects of the planograms are accurately implemented and maintained. This includes managing inventory, understanding product placement, and ensuring compliance with established planograms
Skills
- 2+ years of project management experience in an agency environment managing a high volume of projects aligned to product lifecycles
- Excellent attention to detail with the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced work environment
- Excellent communication skills, particularly to drive workflow steps and internal processes, and the ability to work with distributed global teams
- Exposure to standard communication, project management and workflow tools
- Exceptional attention to detail is crucial to ensure all aspects of the planograms are accurately implemented and maintained. This includes managing inventory, understanding product placement, and ensuring compliance with established planograms
- Manage small retail merchandising projects independently or support senior project management to lead a portion of a larger engagement on time & on budget while exceeding client expectations
- Support program management on scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling tasks
- Set clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
- Anticipate, identify, and communicate risks, seeking guidance from senior leads to assist in mitigating any issues
- Provide ongoing monitoring of progress such as project status, issue resolution, task and allocation management, and timeline tracking; consult with team and adjust as needed
- Adopt automation and embrace tools to streamline efficiency
- Previous exposure to projects in the retail planning & merchandising space is a plus, such as familiarity with production teams that use modeling and rendering software to develop retail floor/space diagrams, table/fixture layouts, and product icons
- Experience in the consumer electronics industry is a plus
- Ideally, some familiarity with retail merchandising projects focused on planogram development
Benefits
- Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
- Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
- Monetary assistance and support for pet adoption
- Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements to help you invest in your future and work/life balance
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
- Matching Gifts programs
- Flexible working arrangements
- ‘Work Your World’ Program encouraging employees to work from anywhere Publicis Groupe has an office for up to 6 weeks a year (based upon eligibility)
- Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances
- The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.
- You must be actively employed for 90 consecutive calendar days in order to be eligible for Publicis medical and voluntary benefits.
- You will also be eligible to participate in the Publicis 401(k) Plan after you complete 1,000 work hours in a consecutive 12-month period.
- 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.
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