Program Manager

Marketing Castro is an independent agency with 550 employees in offices across Mexico. Creative, strategy, media and analytics staff work together in dedicated account groups.

Role overview:

The Program Manager runs cross-functional projects from kickoff to close, usually three or four at a time, with budgets between $250K and $2M. Marketing Castro has a small PMO. You will own schedules, budgets, risks and status reporting for your projects. You can work from home anywhere in Mexico. We have no office requirement. Flexible hours with a daily team call in the morning. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

What you'll be doing:

• Run weekly status meetings and send clear notes with owners and dates.
• Define scope, schedule, budget and resources with project sponsors.
• Handle change requests and their effect on scope, time and cost.
• Oversee vendor statements of work and deliverables.
• Escalate blockers before they turn into missed dates.
• Report status to sponsors and steering committees.
• Keep project documentation organised in SharePoint or Confluence.
• Track risks, issues and decisions in an RAID log.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7+ years of project management experience.
• Organised, with a habit of following up.
• Able to travel up to 15%.
• Experience managing budgets and multiple projects at once.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong written status reporting.
• Proficient in Smartsheet, MS Project or a similar tool.

Preferred qualifications:

• Jira and Confluence.
• Change management training such as Prosci.
• ERP or software implementation experience.

What you get:

• Payment in USD.
• Flexible hours.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Marketing Castro.