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Change Catalyst Project Manager

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In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
59K-96K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
59K-96K Annually
Senior level
Manage the execution of Creative and Media projects, ensuring alignment with strategies and client engagement while addressing risks and KPIs.
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Job Description:

As a Change Catalyst Project Manager, you are the delivery arm for the VP, Change Catalyst’s vision. Once solutions are defined and operationalized, you ensure the day-to-day execution against them runs seamlessly. Acting as the connective tissue across creative, media, and technology, you’ll translate strategies into action and keep projects on track. Success in this role requires hands-on experience managing integrated creative projects that connect with media — from broadcast to digital — with a strong understanding of the critical points where creative intersects with media and can be impacted by data and technology.

Key Responsibilities

  • Solution Delivery: Ensure the VP’s solutions are executed effectively by managing timelines, scope, deliverables, and resourcing.
  • Day-to-Day Orchestration: Coordinate across creative, media, and technology teams to ensure ongoing execution aligns with the intended solution.
  • Intersection Oversight: Monitor and manage the points where creative intersects with media, ensuring data and technology integrations function as designed.
  • Client Engagement: Act as a delivery partner to clients, ensuring confidence that the solution is running smoothly.
  • Risk & KPI Management: Identify risks, blockers, or gaps in delivery, escalate as needed, and track progress against defined KPIs.
  • Cross-Team Coordination: Drive collaboration across teams to ensure solutions are not just stood up but consistently executed.

Qualifications

  • 5–8 years of experience in project management, marketing operations, media, or creative services.
  • Proven experience running integrated creative + media projects across broadcast and digital.
  • Strong understanding of creative production and media workflows, and how they are impacted by data and technology.
  • Experience coordinating delivery across creative, media, and technology/ops teams.
  • Required fluency in Workfront for orchestration and delivery management.
  • Exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Additional Information:

The annual salary range for this position is $59,000 – $96,025. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law.  

Benefits available with this position include:  

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance, 

• Life insurance,  

• Short-term and long-term disability insurance, 

401k, 

Flexible paid time off, 

At least 15 paid holidays per year, 

• Paid sick and safe leave, and 

Paid parental leave. 

Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policiesFor further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com. 

To begin the application process, please click on the “Apply” button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps. 

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Location:

Chicago

Brand:

Dentsu Creative

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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Dentsu is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to, among others, individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to search and apply for a career opportunity with us, please send an e-mail to [email protected] by clicking on the link to let us  know the nature of your accommodation request and your contact information. We are here to support you.  

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