ZS Associates - Senior Project Management Office - Marketing

ZS Associates (http://www.zsassociates.com) is a global management consulting and technology firm headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. It is the largest and fastest-growing firm in marketing and sales insights, strategy, analytics, technology and operations. Founded in 1983 by AndrisZoltners and Prabha Sinha, ZS Associates grew out of their work at Kellogg studying the dynamics of sales and marketing across all industries. Currently, the firm employs over 4,500 people on 22 offices in North America, Europe and Asia. ZS works with 49 of the 50 largest pharmaceutical companies and 17 of the 20 largest biotech/medical device manufacturers, as well as a growing range of companies in the high tech, telecommunications, financial services, industrial goods and transportation industries.

- ZS - Corporate Support teams support the firm's core business operations by operating the internal enterprise. Our global teams comprise team-oriented, pragmatic and results-driven people who thrive in a challenging work environment. Our people come from diverse backgrounds, but share a passion for quality customer service and dedication- whether our customer is a client or another ZS employee.

- We seek a Senior Project Management Office (PMO) to join our New Delhi office. Reporting to the Manager of India Performance & Operations Team, the Senior PMO Associate will be an integral member of the team responsible for interacting with Key Area Marketing Managers/Solution Marketer and their stakeholders on various programs and will help drive the respective projects as tasked.

- This person oversees the project process and ensures that they are following the due process,while ensuring all milestone gating requirements are met. Uses influence to eliminate bottlenecks and potential resource alignment.

Responsibilities :

- Serves as a liaison between India-based marketing program associate consultants and U.S. based team, helps translate marketing requirements, ensures good coordination, consistent execution and integration as required

- Manages marketing calendar and traffic to ensure projects are on-target, working with onshore teams to understand plan requirements, maintain and update the project calendar

- Provides logistical support for events-related content production, scheduling kick-off and update calls, tracking progress and following-up to ensure materials are being created per the timeline

- Identify gaps in execution of activities to facilitate removal of roadblocks. Have the confidence and experience in raising issues around project status with senior managers through written or verbal communication

- Supports planning and operations by managing the central repository of all marketing activities and calendars, working with leadership to help develop and manage the marketing budget against goals, and reporting actual activities and spend against plans and budgets

- Coordinates with team members in India and in the US to manage the day-to-day activities of the projects and be accountable for each project execution completion

Other responsibilities this role may oversee :

- Review and update the Marketing Asset Library site and monthly newsletter

- Manage the ZS Products On Demand Portal

Qualifications :

- BA/BS degree required

- 3-6 years experience

- Very strong project management execution skills

- Skilled in managing multiple projects simultaneously

- PMP / SCRUM certification would be a plus

- Experience with project management tools and Microsoft Project

- Knowledge of project management methodologies

- Ability to summarize and present information in a concise and clear fashion

- Should be able to work independently with minimum or no supervision and able to work collaboratively among cross functional teams

- Exceptional English verbal & written communication skills

- Proficiency with MS Office products including Word, Excel, Power Point

- Experience working with teams in a matrixed organization across North American, European and India time zones