Jack Morton is seeking a passionate and energetic Senior Project Associate on our Motorsports account. This person will support on-site planning and activation for racing programs, while owning specific tasks within the team (budget tracking, status reports or process compliance, for example). Client management skills are a must.
Here’s the job:
- Provide great client services, making sure that clients’ needs are met and exceeded.
- Use the creative part of your brain to come up with unique approaches to accomplish the goals of the client.
- Flawlessly plan, facilitate, and execute assigned programs/projects
- Management of several vendors and suppliers
- Support development of event and sponsorship related contracts working with our evaluations team to ensure they are compliant with GM processes and risk management controls.
- Maintain constant communication with the client, providing updates on budgets, status reports, action items and schedule, ensuring all deadlines are met
- Demonstrate negotiation skills to ensure the client is getting the most bang for their buck
- Strive for flawless delivery of client commitments
- Contribute to a positive team climate that inspires others to excel and deliver
- Support Agency objectives relative to this account (and potentially others as assigned)
How you can add to our culture:
- You enjoy and succeed at working REALLY well with others
- You contribute to a positive and productive cultural environment
- You take your work seriously have fun doing it and bring energy to a team
- You roll with the punches
Qualifications
What we require:
- College degree
- 1-3 years’ experience required
- Must be detail-oriented and able to simultaneously manage multiple projects
- Strong project management, organizational and communication skills
- Strong skills in PowerPoint and Excel
- Demonstrated production competencies: client focus, accountability for results, team effectiveness, organizational sophistication, attention to detail, flexibility and professional confidence
- Comfortable in planes, trains and automobiles as up to 40% of the gig is spent travelling
- Be OK with giving up some of your weekends (because we don’t execute many events on Tuesday afternoons)
Jack Morton is an equal opportunity employer; we strongly value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on race, religion, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. In 2020, Jack, as part of Interpublic Group (IPG), has been named to the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index (GEI), and has once again been designated a Best Place To Work For LGBTQ Workplace Equality by the Human Rights Campaign in their Corporate Equality Index.