Senior Technical Project Manager

RAPP Chicago is looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to join our award-winning Program Management team.

YOUR ROLE :

This is a high profile and fast paced role within the Data and Technology arms of RAPP and involves managing the full lifecycle development of multiple projects simultaneously with the provision of leadership, direction and supervision to a number of project leaders and system engineers running independent projects and managing system changes. The type of projects you will be responsible for managing involves the development and implementation of large scale real-time marketing solutions and are highly driven by data and technology innovation.

Another key part of this role will involve being a business and technical liaison with a diverse range of functions with RAPP’s client, their agency partners and RAPP 3rd party suppliers. You will be charged with setting and reviewing objectives and coordinating technology implementation activities across projects along with leaders from the technology group. In addition, you’ll have commercial responsibility for your team and will be expected to provide accurate estimates, and measure these forecasts against actuals.

We are looking for someone who can understand and drive client requirements to ensure RAPP delivers excellent solutions both from a technical and operational perspective, someone who is willing to roll up their sleeves and manage the project through to delivery. You’re creative, solutions-driven, organized and have exceptional people skills.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Take total technical ownership of assigned client systems and you will assess feasibility and provide technical solutions and estimates for the full range of proposed projects
• Develop full-scale integrated project plans and associated communications documents and effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and oversee tasks though completion.
• Manage expectations of clients and project stakeholders / sponsors at multi-levels including C-Suite level, take ownership for driving delivery through, be client facing and build a level of respect and trust with clients.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals and take fiscal responsibility for assigned projects to ensure profitability.
• Define and work to statements of work and terms of reference.
• Set policies and procedures for projects and ensure projects are run according to them.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals and assign individual responsibilities and resolve resource conflicts within assigned resources.
• Facilitate documentation creation such as business requirements, technical architecture, and functional specifications and ensure technology solutions implemented to deliver best in class solutions for our clients.
• Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements and from this, develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
• Vendor Management & Tracking – work with 3rd party partners to align on project related costs, tracking of deliverables, and creation of necessary documentation.
• Comfortable leading and working with client technology teams from project conception to delivery

REQUIRED SKILLS :

Our hybrid work model :

RAPP's current hybrid model is designed to enable in-person connections and collaboration that is core to our culture, while also supporting flexibility for all employees. As such, we have the option to work from home two days per week, if we'd like.

RAPP provides a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits plan. Benefits for this role include health / vision / dental insurance, 401(k), stock options, Healthcare & Dependent Flexible Spending Accounts, vacation, sick, and personal days and positive activism days, paid parental leave and disability benefits. For more information regarding Omnicom benefits, please visit . A reasonable estimate of the salary for this role, at the time of posting, is $90,000 - $103,500. This range is specific to Chicago and multiple factors are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to : skill set, experience and training, certifications; etc. This is an exempt position.