Why this position exists in our organization:
The Project Manager position exists in our organization to concurrently keep 30+ fast-paced, very complex projects moving ahead smoothly and on time. The Project Manager also plays the role of client liaison and account manager, ensuring that clients receive prompt and constant communication about their project. Additionally, the Project Manager is expected to bring new levels of efficiency to the organization, so that additional projects and clients can be taken on without the need for additional resources.
Why this is a rewarding role:
The Project Management role is a crucial one, that if done properly, will:
- Make clients feel cared for, through excellent communication
- Get clients better results, via thorough attention to detail
- Keep the business owner and team members organized and stress-free, by ensuring that no task “falls through the cracks”
- Directly contribute to the growth of the organization, through increased efficiency and capacity to take on more projects and clients.
The right individual, who consistently contributes to these great outcomes, will not only enjoy the personal satisfaction that naturally occurs by producing such results, but will also be rewarded with increases in compensation that are reflective of the increases in client satisfaction, company revenue, and stress relief that they have brought to the organization.
Additionally, anyone with an interest in internet marketing, specifically search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising, will learn a great deal about the industry through osmosis as they lead these projects. If desired, direct participation in this type of project work could be considered if desired.
Job Details
This will start out as a part time position, 15-25 hours per week, but the right individual could easily and quickly evolve this into a full time role.
While many of these job responsibilities can be performed by telecommute, it is preferred that the individual be capable of working on site in Sparta, NJ as needed, especially when first becoming acclimated with the organization.
Compensation starts at a very fair going market rate and will increase as noted above.
Job Responsibilities
- Set up new clients in the project management system: Translating the accepted proposal into task lists, establishing deadlines for those tasks, assigning those tasks to the appropriate team members, and entering/linking in supporting account information into the project file
- Break down each month’s workload into manageable goals for each week, taking into consideration each team member’s role and workload
- Host weekly internal team meetings, breaking down the week’s work into manageable goals for each day
- Maintain goals and deadlines by providing reminders to appropriate team members, and facilitating the collection of whatever supporting information or answered questions they need to complete the task at hand
- Assist with project quality control by reviewing team members’ submitted work, proofreading it, and comparing it to the requirements of the task and the principles of the business
- Attend company meetings and conference calls, shadowing the business owner and team members to take notes, extract action items from the conversation, and translate those action items into tasks in the project management system
- Provide weekly project status updates to clients, schedule client meetings/calls, and act as an account manager to service the client as needed
- Persistently (yet kindly) follow up with clients regarding supporting information that the team needs from them in order to complete tasks on time
- Assist in creation of monthly client written project status reports, and ensure that any action items from prior monthly reports are completed on time
- Alert the team members and business owner to potential project delays or quality issues
- Assess project profitability
- Significantly contribute to the ongoing continuous improvement of the organization’s project management processes
Personality requirements for the position:
- INCREDIBLY detail oriented
- Excellent listener
- Accurate
- Analytical
- Personable
- Respectful
- Tactful
- Ethical
- Organized
- Able to think on your feet
- Thorough
- Problem-solver
- Precise
- Dedicated
- Honest
- Patient
- Intellectually curious
- Critical thinker
- Fact-finder
- Thirst for learning
- Enthusiastic
- Positive attitude
- Reliable
- Able to take chances and admit mistakes
- Willing to ask when you don’t understand
- Forthright in admitting when you are having difficulty
- Remain calm under pressure
- Able to shift gears easily
- Adaptability to change
- Appropriate sense of urgency
- Plays by the rules
To Apply
To be considered, forward your resume by email to careers at pamannmarketing dot com along with desired pay level and a short blurb on which of our company’s core values you identify with the most and why. To validate your attention to detail, include the word dragonfly in the subject line of the email.
About Pam Ann Marketing
Pam Ann Marketing, LLC provides internet marketing consulting, services, and training to small and medium businesses, very often “business-to-business” organizations, across all industries.
Our MBA-crafted integrated marketing strategies set us far apart from agencies that provide “random acts of marketing.” We do not “throw stuff out there to see what sticks.” We help clients define and optimize their unique “online sales funnel,” and align different marketing tactics to guide website visitors down that funnel until they convert into leads and sales.
We place a laser-tight focus on keeping up with the latest trends in internet marketing, especially with regard to the incredibly rapidly-changing science of SEO (search engine optimization).
Our customized approaches and commitment to staying ahead of the curve provide our clients not only with additional website traffic, but with actual increases in revenue, profits, and efficiency.
