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Senior Integrated Project ManagerDuluth, GA or Birmingham, AL
Luckie is looking for an ambitious, detail-oriented, Senior Project Manager. The selected candidate will be responsible for defining, planning, and directing the successful delivery of Luckie’s full scope of marketing solutions across advertising channels and campaigns (with current emphasis on Traditional & Digital Media, Brand Strategy, and Data & Analytics).
This position reports directly to the team’s Program Director and works closely with cross-functional project teams (business intelligence, strategy, UX, creative, development, and more), client contacts, and other agency partners while functioning as a central point of contact for all project-related information. Additionally, this senior leader will serve as a mentor, and possibly direct line manager of more junior project managers on the team.
Here's what you'll do:
- Establishes strong relationships with clients by providing them with executional thought leadership and an understanding of their business, their needs, and requirements
- Collaborates with the project team to identify the approach, budget, deliverables, and schedule to deliver complex digital projects within established constraints and sets clear expectations with the team for their role in delivering the project
- Applies appropriate project management methodology to successfully drive delivery -- projects may utilize Waterfall, Agile, or a hybrid methodology (Senior PM is expected to be fluent and adaptable to various PM methodologies)
- Communicates scope/schedule variances to the team and provides solutions for addressing
- Maintains a clear understanding of the overarching strategy on all assigned projects
- Oversees the architecture and implementation of interactive projects while also maintaining production knowledge by keeping current with industry developments
- Manages project lifecycle including resource management, estimate to actuals management, project plan adherence, and ensuring functional requirements are met per specification
- Prioritizes work so not only the most urgent work is completed, but also the most important
- Generates draft SOWs and assists in billing details
- Manages project schedule and budget and ensures project progress from conception to completion including change management while maintaining a clear and reasonable vision of 'next steps' and the 'big picture'
- Develops risk and change management plans that accurately reflect the scope of work and resources available
- Develops resource plans by working with PMO peers and team leaders to ensure appropriate resources are in place throughout each project
- Delivers instructions in a clear and concise manner, providing proper materials and documentation
Here's what we're looking for:
- 5+ years of experience managing integrated and campaign-based marketing & advertising projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment, across a diverse set of deliverables (traditional/paid media assets, web, video, and social)
- Strong experience across the full scope of agency services, i.e. strategic initiatives, data & analytics, traditional media, and digital projects (including web & email)
- Strong communication, organization, and follow-up skills
- Leads an effective and efficient discussion, ensuring discussions stay on track and lead to a solution and/or clear next steps
- Exhibits strong listening skills and the ability to tactfully communicate a position on relevant issues to reach team consensus
- Effective problem-solving and negotiation skills to mitigate conflict or risk
- Thinks clearly and diplomatically when participating in a discussion to field complex or sensitive questions from internal or external parties
- Professional presentation, training, and client-facing skills
- Competent understanding of project management methodology including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk, develop detailed work plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and run team meetings
- Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Proficient with various PM tools, including Jira
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask across multiple projects
- Positive, team-player attitude
Database EngineerDuluth, GA or Birmingham, AL
As a Database Engineer, you are responsible for database development, management and automation, application development, business intelligence support and supporting marketing strategies.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Implement ETL processes to warehouse data and assist with BI and reporting needs.
- Expert knowledge of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) development.
- Ensures overall health, reliability, performance, availability and capacity of databases, data marts, and data warehouse
- Work closely with development team to design and implement SQL Server databases and integrations for client applications.
- Perform requirements gathering and analysis working closely with client and team members.
- Query Databases to Report on Performance Metrics
- Write stored procedures and queries to support software engineers.
- Improve adherence to relational database best practices
- Tune queries, investigate and repair database performance issues.
- Monitor stored procedures and access methods and times.
- Monitors all MS SQL servers and databases
- Maintain a strategic understanding of CRM
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Complete Knowledge of SDLC Cycle
- 4-6 years experience in SQL development using most common RDBMS platforms
- API integrations with marketing technology platforms like Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Hubspot, Salesforce etc.
- 3+ years experience with SQL administration
- Experience working with SSIS and SSRS
- Exposure to SSAS
- Familiarity with dashboard and reporting platforms like DatoRama, Tableau, and PowerBI
- Experience working with business analysts and strategists
Account Supervisor (Atlanta)Duluth, GA
At Luckie, we combine data, media, technology, and creativity to bring our clients closer to their customers so they can spot new opportunities and achieve results that luck can’t explain.
Our Account Management team members are our clients' trusted advisors. By focusing on understanding our client’s business problems, they provide strategic business insights and collaborate with the expertise within Luckie to deliver smart marketing solutions.
We’re currently looking for an Account Supervisor to service regional clients and partner with senior account leadership on overall account direction and quality of work. They will establish and grow senior-level client relationships, especially as related to ongoing account planning, to ensure all opportunities and challenges are understood, solutions identified, and the account is being developed in a strategic and successful manner.
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- You have 5-7 years of relevant experience in digital solutions, media strategies, and consumer marketing – preferably in a fast-paced agency environment.
- You have at least 1 year of experience managing and mentoring junior account team members
- You have at least 3 years of experience running digital campaigns.
- You have experience estimating, tracking, and managing multi-phase project budgets.
- You consistently demonstrate active problem resolution.
- You have experience working with media and analytics partners.
- You’re able to travel as needed and collaborate with remote teams.
- You pay close attention to detail and have exceptional time management, proofreading, and organizational skills.
- You have a strong interest in technology, innovation, and data.
Here’s what you’ll do:
PROVIDE STRATEGIC AND MARKETING LEADERSHIP
- Understand core client business strategy and uncover new ways to support and deliver that strategy through superior customer experience and enabling technologies
- Be a steward of brand and digital strategies while following regulatory and legal requirements
- Effectively leverage and work collaboratively with planning, data, and creative teams to profitably execute strategies and programs
- Help implement and interpret analysis to support strategies and programs
- Ensure tactical alignment with goals, objectives, and strategies in partnership with partner agencies (advertising, media, data, etc.)
- Participate in and/or lead client presentations and dialogue as requested
- Help build trust, credibility, and client referrals to organically grow our business
- Identify opportunities uncovered during client conversations, analysis, and through pattern recognition across the account
- Effectively work with remote teams and partner agencies to build annual plans, budgets, timelines, etc.
- Function autonomously while managing up to manager and senior agency leadership
- Be proactively engaged in teamwork and a constructive work environment and culture
BE AN AGENT OF PROGRESS AND GROWTH
- Share industry trends, and groundbreaking innovations with the team, and utilize them for clients
- Commit to learning the client's business, competitive landscape, and industry as a whole
- Contribute to organizational marketing efforts (blogs, social media, etc.)
UTILIZE STRONG BUSINESS ACUMEN
- Partner with project management counterparts to strategically manage complex digital engagements, deliver on time and on budget, and exceed client expectation
- Manage account profitability at or above margin targets
- Develop and meet accurate quarterly and annual revenue forecasts
- Contribute to new business initiatives as needed
Senior Account ManagerDuluth, GA
At Luckie, our Senior Account Managers are an important part of the team, where relationships and strategy elevate our work and our people. This person will support leadership in establishing and managing meaningful long-term relationships with our clients, our teams, and our vendors.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Be a liaison – successfully cultivating client relationships while keeping abreast of client objectives, opportunities, issues, successes, and key personnel change
- Open jobs, present work estimates to the client for approval, and ensure no agency work begins without prior written consent (while still anticipating needs and working with supervision to forecast)
- Be all-knowing as to the status of your accounts, regardless of responsibility level
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure work is done on time and on budget
- Review work prior to presenting to the client and ensure the work is on strategy
- Prepare written status reports for clients (also to be shared internally as requested)
- Attend and often lead regular status meetings
- Coordinate monthly client billing
- Review and approve invoices prior to sending
- Develop agency recommendations and POVs (points of view) for client presentations
- Proactively look for organic growth opportunities to increase revenue
- Effectively work with remote teams and partner agencies to build annual plans, budgets, timelines, etc.
- Function autonomously while managing up to manager and agency leadership
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- 3-5 years of experience managing accounts within a fast-paced, agency environment
- Strong understanding of Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Experience working on multiple accounts at once
- Strong digital experience (web, media)
- Industry experience in one or more of the following: health, CPG, insurance, and QSR
- Strong communication, organization, and follow-up skills
- Leads an effective and efficient discussion, ensuring discussions stay on track and lead to a solution and/or clear next steps
- Exhibits strong listening skills and the ability to tactfully communicate a position on relevant issues to reach team consensus
- Effective problem-solving and negotiation skills to mitigate conflict or risk
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask across multiple projects
Senior Brand StrategistDuluth, GA or Birmingham, AL
Luckie is looking for a strong, seasoned brand strategist who is familiar with working in a fast-paced, agency environment, writing stellar briefs, and collaborating with a dynamic team to do great work that gets Luckie and our clients talked about.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Monitor & report cultural, social, attitudinal, and behavioral trends and perceptions
- Facilitate business challenge sessions with senior team and client partners
- Own concept development for message claims and upstream opportunities
- Develop and participate in qualitative and quantitative insight and target understanding
- Develop a strong working relationship with creative teams before and during the creative process
- Identify and articulate compelling insights that inform briefs & proposals
- Write strong creative briefs for mid to large size campaigns
- Collaborate with creative, media, content and experience strategy to expand a creative idea across relevant touchpoints and for different segments
- Provide ongoing inspiration for creative communications and business problem-solving ideas
- Develop trusted partnership with brand manager level clients
- Have a broad overview of all your client’s data sources and know where/how to get the specifics quickly
- Lead discussions with the client and manage those owning the data–– ensuring they’re feeding the team with meaningful data that informs the work
- Contribute to the strategic debate on your brands and are able to articulate and support a point of view on how it should be moved forward
- Develop perspectives on the different ways to achieve short-term and long-term brand objectives
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience at an agency in strategic brand planning
- Expertise in brand building, marketing, and brand management
- A consumer and trend expert who transforms strategic targets into actionable briefs
- An eye for detail as well as a vision for high-concept initiatives
- Experience helping teams give life to a strategic idea by expanding it across robust campaign ecosystem
- Proficiency in planner skills & knowledge that has been demonstrated in varied assignments including oversight of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
- Some combination of fast-moving CPG, finance, and/or franchise brand marketing communications experience
- Strong communication skills, a charismatic personality, and powerful presentation skills
- You have learned ‘higher’ desk research skills that might be necessary, useful, or impressive, such as TGI correspondence, statistical significance, or cluster analysis
- You have developed a ‘diet’ of wide and eclectic reading around and beyond the subjects of brands, marketing, and communications to familiarize yourself with new thinking about and new opportunities offered by non-conventional media
- You are accustomed to structuring and drafting presentations that do not require subsequent editorial involvement from a senior planner
- You understand the commercial issues for your brand, monitor for competitor movement, and offer proactive suggestions to the client on ways to react
What we offer
- Comprehensive healthcare
- 401 (k)
- Generous PTO
- Ongoing career training
- Baby leave for moms and dads
- Hybrid Work Environment
- Thirsty Thursdays Happy Hour
- Leave early on Summer Fridays
- Volunteer Day
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