Change Catalyst Project Manager
Chicago, IL - USA
Job Summary
Job Description:
Change Catalyst Project Manager
Job description
As a Change Catalyst Project Manager you are the delivery arm for the VP Change Catalysts 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 youll 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 VPs 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.
- 58 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.
- Technical / engineering-oriented mindset (beyond traditional project management)
- Strong understanding of AI generative tech and agentic workflows
- Ability to operate at the intersection of innovation execution (hybrid role)
- Understanding of MarTech ecosystem and digital/channel platforms (social content etc.)
- Ability to translate ideas hypotheses or models into structured frameworks/solutions
- Comfortable contributing to systems and solutions not just coordinating
- Ability to manage and progress ambiguous undefined and evolving workstreams
Exceptional organizational communication and stakeholder management skills. - Strong ability to lead cross-discipline initiatives that are somewhat unique both to where our program sits and how our industry works.
- Strong ability to drive momentum accountability and clarity with ability to influence.
Additional Information:
The annual salary range for this position is $59000 $96025. 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 policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits please visit .
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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About Company
Dentsu is an integrated growth and transformation partner to the world’s leading organizations. Founded in 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, and now present in approximately 120 countries.