Project Manager - Remote or Hybrid - Cary, HQ in the Eastern Time Zone

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We’re also a debt-free multi-billion-dollar organization on our path to IPO-readiness. If you're looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career coupled with flexibility and world-class employee experience, you'll find it here.

About the job

The Marketing team is looking for a Project Manager to facilitate multiple marketing programs and projects. Plan, create, schedule, monitor and manage internal marketing creative campaign programs and projects from initiation through completion. Responsible for analyzing customer intake needs and translating them into creative requirements for scheduling and meeting marketing promotion deadlines. Publish and communicate stakeholder needs and requirements to the creative team through a creative workflow management system. Identify at-risk projects and communicate with Account Manager and creative team as needed to ensure projects reflect updates and stay on track. Support the team’s workflow and resource needs to help improve the organization’s performance, increase lead generation, and create customer demand. Surface real-time reporting and impacts that keep department resources moving smoothly. Helps facilitate creative check-ins and sets up campaign kickoffs. Identify gaps and process issues to communicate to the management team. Learn and incorporate the company MarTech stack for improvement and efficiency. Responsible for planning, assigning projects appropriately and guiding field marketing and creative teams to successful campaign execution.

As a Project Manager, you will:

• Be responsible for all aspects of project management: the direction, planning and budgeting, coordination, implementation, execution, and completion of specific projects while ensuring consistency with SAS’ overall strategy, commitments, and goals.
• Leads and/- or coordinates project planning, resourcing, staffing, supply and subcontract management, progress reporting, troubleshooting, and people management.
• Communicates and regularly tracks the status of project goals by ensuring project results meet quality, reliability, schedule, and cost requirements.
• Monitors performance and recommends schedule changes, cost adjustments and resource additions.
• Provides direction and support to the project team to ensure the accomplishment of agreed-upon goals, objectives, and deadlines.
• Assembles and coordinates project staff while managing resource availability and allocation.
• Reports on the progress of the project to all stakeholders by presenting reports defining project progress, problems, and solutions.
• Successfully manages relationships with all stakeholders. Establishes and maintains relationships with third parties/ vendors.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience researching, analyzing and/or reporting information related to specific area of assignment. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desirable or equivalent professional training preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business, Marketing, Accounting or related field.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.
• Independently manages a key aspect of one or more projects.
• Continually monitors the effectiveness of projects and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Builds a business case for potential process and/or procedure solutions and completes cost/benefit analyses as support.
•  Adopt and incorporate a new creative workflow system to help measure and prioritize client requests.
• You’re curious, passionate, authentic and accountable. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Creative Workflow Systems, particularly Adobe Workfront a plus.
• Ability to interpret complex system configurations and translate them into working knowledge for creative concepts and execution.
• Ability to communicate with marketing creative team members to drive collaboration, uncover inefficiencies and find resolutions.
• Ability to represent team and envision a big-picture integration of various company systems needed to support the creative process.

World-Class Benefits  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

Additional Information:

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. Also view the Pay Transparency notice.

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