Associate Project Director, Performance Central

**About the role**

As an APAC Associate Project Director, you will be responsible for leading the project delivery of strategic central workstreams that impact the full campaign lifecycle for one of our largest clients. This will involve developing and overseeing an end-to-end process that starts with defining client business requirements before working with Media Futures Group (MFG) regional practices and teams to develop and roll-out key projects for performance / direct response campaigns.

Your role will require you to be hands on to scope and create project plans across a number of different workstreams, based on building and enhancing performance for our client. The role is high visibility across a number of practices and teams within MFG and will require key stakeholder management skills to ensure collaboration across APAC markets.

You will have significant experience in simplifying complex projects for delivery and managing the clear and timely communication of project status to stakeholders and clients. A very keen eye for detail and a natural communicator and collaborator, you will be driven to achieve project success and develop MFG's capability across APAC.

**Some of the thing's we'd like you to do**

Supporting Team Functions
- Ensure consistency in the delivery of all central projects
- Support the Senior Operations Director to:

- Work with Product Leadership and Regional Practice Leads to develop clear scopes of work and commercial proposals for the central team
- Identify the key performance indicators for project success and measure the business impact to both the client and MFG..
- Work with Resource Management to develop resource strategies to optimise financial performance, to deliver work on time and to meet client expectations
- Support the VP of Activation and Performance Client Lead to:

- Managing the data tracking to internal and external stakeholders
- Coordination of the resources on projects for quarterly scoping
- Streamline the processes for analytics projects and improve workflow management
- Analyse the efficiencies between the Hub and local markets.
- Support the Planning team to:

- Project manage the beta testing within the internal and client teams
- Coordination of the various reporting trackers and ensure on time delivery
- Monitor brand campaign scorecards and the reporting
- Coordinate and oversee the creative testing and optimisation projects

Leading the Delivery of Work
- Translate client brief/initiatives and scopes of work into effective project plans, that will ensure we meet client expectations on time and deliver results.
- Ensure project plans are kept up-to-date within our project management platform and shared and understood by the cross-functional team
- Partner with global leads to ensure APAC performance projects are captured and reported, highlighting the key areas of opportunity and further performance updates.
- Coordinate efforts across the cross-functional team, including supporting/ leading daily huddles to maintain context and coordinating conversations and actions to overcome challenges and meet deadlines
- Effectively help plan and manage on-going projects for the Regional Practice Leads, in conjunction with the SVP of Client Services and Senior Operations Director.
- Support the Regional Practice Leads with client and partner management when requested by:

- Sharing status updates and gathering information/context
- Holding them to account for their deliverables/inputs
- Setting up and/or facilitating meetings
- Documenting and sharing meeting minutes and actions
- Look to identify potential issues before they happen, and with the support of the Senior Operations Director and to put plans in place to mitigate them
- Help the team understand the client agreed upon service level agreements, and support them in finding ways to better manage their work to them
- Be a role model and advocate for effective collaboration and communication across the cross-functional team

Driving Project Effectiveness
- Support the Senior Operations Director run team wash-ups, and help the team implement agreed upon changes to improve the way they work together
- Help educate team members on the end-to-end Essence Campaign Delivery Process and direct them towards any supporting Quality Standards
- Help the Senior Operations Director track adherence to Process and Quality Standards, encouraging their use, and helping resolve barriers to their adoption
- Regularly share operational recommendations to improve the way we work, and help implement any necessary improvements within the team

**A bit about yourself**
- You have ~8-10 years' experience, ideally including time within a media agency and/or from management consulting companies
- You have a solid understanding of project management methodologies, and can share how you've used them to deliver complex projects involving cross-functional teams
- You show curiosity in the way businesses operate, and demonstrate a