Remote Associate Program Director

Summary

The job is for a Delivery Champion in a global digital creative agency, AnalogFolk. The role involves managing a programme of work for a major client, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget, and owning the client relationships at a senior level.

Requirements

• Experience successfully managing Marketing/Communications projects, and digital transformation initiatives
• SCRUM/Agile experience
• Able to support strategy projects and keen to grow knowledge in this area
• Solid knowledge and experience leading agile projects
• The ability to switch contexts and manage multiple streams of work
• Experience managing project profitability and financial performance
• Track record of successful project delivery (on time and within budget)
• Advanced in English and Mandarin (Cantonese is a nice to have.)
• Able to quickly switch contexts between different projects, and operate effectively in a small, close-knit team

Responsibilities

• Effectively plan, lead and execute the programme of work required across the account group, clearly communicating needs and progress to the business
• Own overall responsibility, with Client Partner, for client programme recovery rate and profitability
• Agree and deliver the strategic direction and objectives of the account from commercial, creative, client and best-practice perspectives
• Own the client relationships at a senior level, with direct client contacts and be seen as a trusted delivery partner
• Monitor risks and dependencies across the programme of work to balance priorities and resources across multiple projects
• Assess new briefs from the client. You will help provide the initial response to the client, plan the team accordingly, and determine key deliverables
• Lead pitches involving multiple markets together with the Client Partner, and set the delivery framework in the pitch
• Own project quality within the programme of work, contributing to the project quality governance processes in the agency as a whole, and establishing ways of working within the team, ensuring consistency in work and standards
• Track and report on the financial status of your projects across the account. Highlight potential overruns before they occur to the Client Partner and Managing Director. Escalate and resolve financial issues as they happen
• Work with Client Services, Resource Management and Talent to ensure effective resourcing requirements are planned for all projects across the account

Preferred Qualifications

Banking experience preferred, but is not mandatory

Benefits

• As we are operating a temporary remote working model, we set up your home working environment like you are in the office and make sure you get the AF experience from day one, but from your home
• Working remotely means we can embrace flexible working and we believe individuals can manage their own time and work, depending on their personal situations. As long as our work is delivered on time and to our high standards, we don’t mind how employees work