Harrison and Star

Program Manager

Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Excellent ability to balance big picture thinking with critical details.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving and negotiation skills.
  • Resilient leader with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Superior communication skills across various formats.
  • Extensive project management experience, including scheduling, resource management, and risk management.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the planning and execution of website enhancements and digital campaigns.
  • Establish and improve operational processes and governance for client projects.
  • Lead project kickoffs and coordinate cross-functional team activities.
  • Oversee creative routing and provide direction to content teams.
  • Ensure quality control of creative assets before delivery to clients.
  • Track project timelines and communicate progress or issues proactively.
  • Handle multiple priorities with a focus on organization and detail.

Benefits

  • In-person collaboration encouraged with a minimum of three days in the office each week.
  • Commitment to inclusivity and diversity in team development.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
Full Job Description
Agency:
Omnicom Precision Marketing

Job Function:
Projects and Performance Improvement

Job Subfunction:
Project and Program Management

Job Description:

MRM is seeking an experienced and highly organized Program Manager to lead and oversee a client's digital website program, driving the successful delivery of website enhancements, digital campaigns, and ongoing site creative enhancements. This role is responsible for providing program leadership across cross-functional teams, ensuring work is planned, prioritized, and executed efficiently while aligning with client objectives and business priorities.

The Program Manager will establish scalable processes and governance for a growing account, creating the operational framework needed to support both strategic initiatives and ongoing website operations. The ideal candidate is a proactive leader who excels at managing multiple workstreams, fostering collaboration, mitigating risks, and providing visibility into timelines, budgets, and overall program health. Success in this role requires exceptional organizational skills, strong communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage the intake, planning, prioritization, and execution of website enhancements, maintenance requests, and digital campaign launches.
  • Establish and refine workflows, governance, and operational processes for a newer client engagement while driving continuous process improvements.
  • Manage the day-to-day activities such as leading project kickoffs, define project plans, and coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery.
  • Manage creative routing and review cycles, coordinate authoring requests and provide clear direction to content authors and production teams.
  • Review creative assets and authored content for quality, completeness, and accuracy before client delivery.
  • Track project timelines, identify risks, manage project status reports to ensure projects are delivered on schedule while proactively communicating progress or issues.
  • Manage multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining a high level of organization and attention to detail.


Qualifications:
  • Excellent ability to shift approach between the big picture and critical details; then possess strong judgement to know when to focus on each.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated with clients, agency teams and individuals.
  • Problem/solution thinker with an ability to lead collaboration, persuasion and negotiation toward solutions.
  • Demonstrates leader-level resiliency while working under pressure, in a dynamic environment, with shifting deadlines and deliverables.
  • Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, text, etc.
  • Excellent project management skills and experience including:
    • Schedule development, management, monitoring and oversight
    • Resource management and forecasting
    • Task and delivery management
    • Risk identification and management
    • Issue identification and management
    • Delegation to support teams


Education & Experience Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience desired.
  • 4-7+ years of experience in digital project management, program management, or account/program delivery.
  • Experience in an agency environment, or equivalent client-side experience.
  • Excellent knowledge of the web and related technologies including (user experience, web development, web services, integration, application management and hosting).
  • Advanced skills in MS Office including: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Advanced skills in MS Project or other project plan software (i.e. Workfront, Smartsheet).
  • Strong capability with production tools and proprietary software (SharePoint, JIRA, Outlook).
  • Strong knowledge of content management systems (i.e. CMS).
  • PM or other operational/organizational certification is a plus (CSM, PMP, SAFe).
  • Infrequent, travel to/from client, partner or vendor facilities - local or within the US.


85,000.00

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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