Associate Project Manager, Project Management

Job Description:

You're an emerging client partner and delivery professional. In this role, you'll support the day-to-day execution of assigned projects while helping foster strong client relationships. You coordinate project details, track timelines, support team alignment, and help ensure clients have a seamless experience. You'll develop your ability to solve problems, manage priorities, and navigate project complexities while building your expertise in client service, project delivery, and financial management. With guidance from senior team members, you'll continue developing the skills and confidence needed to lead projects and drive successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily status reporting and maintain accurate meeting notes for all account activities

• Prepare timelines and develop project estimates in collaboration with Managers

• Manage day-to-day client interactions and serve as the go-to point of contact for client requests

• Support project workflows and ensure all administrative tasks are executed accurately and timely

• Track and manage team hours, project expenses, and generate weekly financial reports

• Coordinate schedules, initiate new projects, and support resource allocation across the team

• Support production activities across multiple mediums (digital, print, video, etc.)

• Identify and creatively solve problems that impact project delivery or client satisfaction

• Actively learn and adopt new project management technologies and AI-powered tools as they are introduced

• Apply agentic tools and emerging workflows to your day-to-day project delivery, identifying practical time savings and quality improvements

• Participate in tool pilots and share observations with senior PM staff to help inform team-wide adoption

• Bring curiosity and openness to new technologies-proactively exploring how tools can make your delivery practice sharper and more efficient

• Support preparation of client presentations, meeting materials, and follow-up communications.

• Coordinate action items and track deliverables across internal and client stakeholders.

• Identify and escalate project risks, timeline impacts, and resource challenges to Managers and senior team members.

• Support competitive audits, industry trend analysis, and market monitoring. Synthesize findings into concise reports and presentations that inform client strategies and recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Strong written and verbal communication abilities

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment

• Attention to detail and commitment to accuracy

• Proactive, collaborative approach to problem-solving

• Experience in a client-facing or agency environment preferred or volunteer or paid experience throughout college.

The annual salary range for this position is $54,000 - $56,000. 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 www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.

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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Location:

Chicago

Brand:

Dentsu Creative

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

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