BEPC is looking for a Social Media Project Manager in Newark, NJ to join our fast-growing team of consultants!
W2 Contract: 3 months with opportunities for extensions based on business needs and performance.
**Hybrid position in Newark**
Pay Range: $35.67-62.40/hr. plus we offer Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance benefits!
Job Description:
The Creative Project Management team is looking for a Social Media Project Manager to lead efficiency and improvements in operational excellence, budget oversight at the regional and global levels, capacity tracking, asset trafficking and creative production management as well as reporting. This individual has strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to set priorities, multi-task, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. This individual is highly detailed oriented, has experience in budget management, understands how to communicate effectively upward as well as with key stakeholders for both transparency and clarity in project management efficiency. As a cross-functional collaborator, the ideal candidate will lead connecting the dots across a multitude of teams, leveraging skills of diplomacy and tact to drive alignment and forward momentum, seamlessly adapting to varied working styles on the team in service to the goal of a unified integrated marketing program with final execution on our social media channels and effectiveness of our social media budget tracking.
Responsibilities:
Budget Oversight and PO/Invoice Management

• Logs and maintains all PO and invoice requests and applies records against the overall social media budget.
• Develops monthly, quarterly, and as needed latest estimates and projections against budgets for both global and regional social media budgets.
• Has a high degree of professionalism, outstanding communication, and transparency, and understands the importance of budget management, tracking and maintenance.
• Can effectively work cross functionally to understand how projects across the entire team ladder into the full budget outlook.
• Responsible for reporting on budget for social media to Head of Global Social Media as needed.
• Fully responsible for invoice management and tracking with teams.

Capacity Planning/Assessment

• Log and maintain status on all monthly, evergreen creative and organic video projects.
• Develop estimates and LOE on projects for prioritization.
• Lead tracking and delivering weekly status reports on active and future projects.
• Identify capacity across the team and manage assignment tracking.

Project Management

• Project manages monthly & evergreen creative and all organic social video projects.
• Owns and manages status meetings, works in collaboration with Organic Social leads on assignments of projects.
• In collaboration with organic social leads, manages external agency partner relationships inclusive of communications, capturing project status & creative delivery, development time and oversight.
• QC of creative assets and videos before finalization and trafficking.
• Work within social media tools as necessary.
• Development of comprehensive project plans, maintains templates and creative briefing tools for key initiatives, working side by side with our social creative leaders. Ensures project team and stakeholder alignment through execution while working closely with internal stakeholders and outside agencies.
• Lead in tracking and communicating project status, deliverables, specs, dependencies, and potential issues to internal and external stakeholders.
• Route assets and plans to internal stakeholders (PR, Legal) for approval.
• Track and plan budgets for internal and external resources.
• Track and file documentation (creative briefs, contracts, reference items, etc.).
• Identifies, drives, and implements improvements to existing processes that will improve efficiency and reduce churn for social team and business at large.

Skills/Experience Requirements/Qualifications:

• Experience in managing large, multi-faceted budgets with precision to detail, including forecasting and invoice/PO management.
• Excellent organizational and creative project management skills with experience managing multiple projects with competing priorities in a calm and efficient manner (5 years project management experience).
• Experience with video production development and execution.
• Experience with social media tools (i.e., Sprinklr).
• Strong written communication and presentation skills, which are crucial in our current hybrid environment.
• Experience managing creative assets from end to end.
• Knows project management principles, processes, and tools.
• Previous experience with project management software required.
• Team player with a passion to work closely with others while maintaining an entrepreneurial, self-starter spirit.
• Self-starter attitude and ability to build a strong rapport and trust with resources across multiple functional areas.
• Problem-solver who finds joy in developing systems that increase efficiency.

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