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Publicis Groupe

Runs advertising and digital transformation services

Marketing Operations Project Manager

Project ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWest Chicago, IL, USA$60.8k - $84k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Three to five years of project management, marketing operations, technical delivery, business analysis, or related experience.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with multiple dependencies, tight production deadlines, and varied technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous requests into organized, actionable, and testable business requirements.
  • Strong understanding of project lifecycle practices, including scope, schedules, risk and issue management, change control, approvals, and stakeholder communication.
  • Experience working with data files, record counts, file layouts, selection or segmentation logic, and quality-control processes.
  • Ability to explain technical topics in clear business language through written and verbal communication.
  • Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, facilitation, prioritization, negotiation, and conflict-management skills.
  • High attention to detail, sound judgment, ownership, follow-through, and composure under pressure.
  • Ability to work independently while building productive relationships across account, technical, analytics, production, and vendor teams.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams; strong Excel skills for reviewing and reconciling campaign data are expected.
  • Experience with a work-management platform such as Workfront, Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project.
  • Knowledge of SQL and relational-data concepts sufficient to discuss joins, filters, fields, record counts, source-to-output mapping, and testing with technical teams; hands-on coding is not required.
  • Familiarity with SFTP or other secure file-transfer processes, data specifications, naming conventions, and production handoffs.
  • Comfort using AI-enabled productivity tools, such as Microsoft Copilot, to improve documentation, meeting follow-up, analysis, and workflow efficiency while following applicable data-handling policies.
  • Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.

Responsibilities

  • Own projects from intake and discovery through requirements, development, testing, approvals, launch, and post-production follow-up.
  • Facilitate kickoffs and working sessions to align account, client, data engineering, campaign development, analytics, production, and vendor teams on scope, roles, timing, and success criteria.
  • Translate written and verbal direction into complete business requirements covering source data, selection logic, inputs, outputs, file layouts, processing rules, personalization, suppressions, channel requirements, and reporting needs.
  • Build and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, decision logs, risks, issues, and action items; proactively communicate impacts and recovery plans when timing or scope changes.
  • Coordinate audience targeting, segmentation, test strategies, and measurement requirements with account, analytics, and technical partners.
  • Partner with SQL programmers, data engineers, and campaign developers to clarify requirements, resolve questions, and confirm deliverables meet documented expectations.
  • Establish and enforce quality-control checkpoints throughout production, including requirement validation, record-count and file-layout checks, proof or sample review, output reconciliation, and stakeholder sign-off.
  • Manage data integration and secure file-transfer handoffs among internal systems, clients, fulfillment partners, and other vendors; troubleshoot missing, late, incomplete, or unexpected data.
  • Lead issue triage and root-cause coordination, documenting decisions, owners, corrective actions, and preventive improvements.
  • Balance priorities across multiple programs, surface resource constraints, and escalate risks with clear business impact and recommended options.
  • Drive repeatable processes, templates, checklists, and governance that improve delivery quality, reduce rework, and increase speed to market.
  • Provide concise status reporting for working teams and leadership, including progress, decisions needed, risks, dependencies, and next steps.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with direct mail, email, digital, SMS, or omnichannel campaign operations.
  • Experience in automotive, nonprofit, financial services, retail, or another high-volume, data-driven marketing environment.
  • Experience with campaign fulfillment, personalization, postal processing, audience segmentation, reporting, or vendor management.
  • Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery methods and formal project-management training or certification, such as PMP, CAPM, or Scrum.
  • Hands-on SQL coding experience.

About the Company

Publicis Groupe

Runs advertising and digital transformation services

Publicis Groupe runs advertising, media buying and digital transformation services for companies that want to reach consumers, coordinate campaigns and improve their business systems. Its agency network includes creative and media specialists, while Publicis Sapient builds and modernizes the technology behind clients' operations. Epsilon adds customer data and marketing technology that connect brands with audiences and measure campaign results. Clients pay for consulting, campaign creation and execution, with production and media costs billed through alongside the group's service work. Founded in 1926, Publicis Groupe is headquartered in Paris, France.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1926

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