Project Manager
What is VisionPoint?
VisionPoint is a full-service marketing agency that specializes in higher education marketing. We partner with colleges and universities across the country to help them achieve their branding, marketing, and enrollment goals. Our portfolio features a range of award-winning campaigns and projects that we showcase at national conferences each year. While we’re headquartered in Raleigh, NC, VisionPoint operates on a remote policy with full-time VisionPointers across the country. Additionally, local Raleigh employees have the flexibility to choose from in-person, hybrid, and remote work options.
The Position
Project Managers at VisionPoint own complete responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project. Working with our account, strategy, creative, analytics, web, and media teams, you'll ensure a smooth project pipeline. You'll bridge the gap between ambitious ideas and achievable business goals, making sure neither gets lost in the process. You’ll also work closely with Project Management Leadership to help evolve and implement stronger and streamlined processes, keeping projects productive and healthy over time.
What You’ll Do
As a Project Manager at VisionPoint, you will:
- Manage a variety of projects spanning our various offerings such as brand, enrollment marketing, CRM and consultative services.
- Actively track, analyze and optimize project plans for scope and profitability.
- Work with clients and internal teams to define and achieve project goals.
- Facilitate project communications to keep client and internal teams informed as well as ready and able to execute.
- Establish agendas and run effective, informative project meetings.
- Oversee the efficient and quality production of deliverables.
- Develop and maintain timelines, manage deliverables, and ensure milestones are met.
- Plan and secure appropriate resources throughout the project lifecycle.
- Raise changes to scope, budget, and timing and communicate the impact of those changes as well as proposing solutions to said changes.
- Maintain healthy internal relationships and manage day-to-day internal communications.
- Help various teams scope new work based on previous project analysis.
Who You Are
- Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business or relevant field or equivalent experience.
- 2-3+ years of project management and/or agency experience.
- Experience managing the full life cycle of marketing and advertising projects and tracking KPIs such as margin and pace.
- Experience working with project management software(s).
- Ability to collaborate efficiently and effectively with a variety of cross-functional teams.
- Ability to articulate your ideas clearly, both verbally and in written form.
- Identify opportunities for efficiencies and improved ways of working.
- Interest in digital marketing with a love of good creative and results.
- Live the VisionPoint values in all that you do.
A Quick Note
Research shows that people from underrepresented identities often hesitate to apply for job opportunities if they feel they do not fulfill all of the listed qualifications. VisionPoint Marketing is committed to building a diverse and inclusive work environment and believes that skills are cultivated through a range of experiences. Even if your past work doesn’t meet all of the preferred qualifications, we still encourage you to apply if you are enthusiastic about this opportunity!
VisionPoint Culture
At VisionPoint, we believe that a strong culture is as much a valued benefit as health insurance, PTO
and 401k. That’s why it’s important to us that future team members connect with — and contribute to — our culture. Our communication, collaboration, satisfaction, and growth are largely dependent upon how we all, as individuals, embrace and live out our values. We have a laser focus on knowing, providing solutions for, and advancing higher education because of its transformative power in the world. We believe in the work we do, we support each other, we work hard, and we like to have a bit of fun, too. When it comes right down to it, happy and fulfilled team members produce better work, and better work is what drives us every day.