Manager, Client Engagement - Toronto, Canada - BrandActive

BrandActive

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Our Company
BrandActive specializes in the financial analysis, strategy, and logistics of rebranding implementation and brand and marketing operations.

Whether our client is striving to optimize the implementation of a brand change, or identify opportunities to save money, time, and resources managing your brand and marketing dollars, BrandActive has what it takes to get the job done.

Since 1998, BrandActive has scoped, budgeted, planned, and executed brand change for many of the world's most valuable brands.

Our services combine industry-leading analytics with a unique and proven methodology that provides the information clients need to make sound financial decisions, save time and money and operate more efficiently.

Whether our clients are going through a one-time corporate rebrand or want to get the most out of the everyday management of their existing brand, we help them achieve more, spend less, and build a better brand.

For BrandActive team members, our goal is to be an inclusive place where you are supported in becoming the best you can be, where together we build a strong and agile organization that not only sets the standard for excellence in our industry globally, but also exemplifies how to be a compassionate commercial endeavor that is built on trusting relationships and empowering the growth of every one of us.

We are a team of great people, doing great work and having a great time doing it, and we challenge ourselves to bring smarter, faster and better solutions into everything we do

The Opportunity

Reporting to a Director, the Manager serves as the project lead and is accountable for strategic planning, project formulation/scoping, scenario planning, cost estimating and relationship management that supports the conversion of the client's branded assets to a new identity/logo.

The Manager then oversees the project as it moves into subsequent implementation and roll-out phases while ensuring that the client's needs are met.

To fulfill these responsibilities, the Manager typically works directly with clients at senior levels of the organization including the C-suite.

When conditions safely permit, travel between North America and internationally may be a requirement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, travel expectations will be by rare exception only.

We are all committed to working together to achieve our North Star of a team of great people, doing great work and having a great time doing it.

As part of this, there is an expectation that all of our team members will contribute to internal initiatives that advance our client and/or team member experience while challenging us to be smarter, faster, better in everything that we do We find that this allows us to be agile in our approach to the work and provide growth opportunities for our team members.

Responsibilities

Strategy/Analytics

Consult with clients about all elements for project scope and delivery, providing a highlevel of expertise and instilling confidence in the client
Work with the client and BrandActive's team to define the scope of brand transition across all branded asset categories (e.g. signage, ID badges, website, etc.)
Develop several highlevel scenarios to achieve brand launch and completion objectives using cost, time, quality and impact as the key variables
Provide senior leadership and their Board the information they need to make fiscally responsible brand decisions
Establish highlevel transition strategies by branded asset category with priority given to those categories which are required for brand launch and have longer lead times
Formulate and comprehend overall implementation financials and to evaluate the implications of alternative strategy approaches on these financials at a macro and micro level
Develop cost estimates based on developed transition strategies
Define the highlevel processes required to support an efficient implementation process
Create a highlevel project communications plan to ensure engagement of all project constituents
Define the project organization required to execute the brand transition in a way that ensures achievement of client goals and desired outcomes

Project Management

Lead the project team, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner and maintaining a cooperative, motivated and successful team
Communicate project status regularly (e.g. using dashboard reports) and escalate issues to stakeholders, sponsor(s), and senior leadership as required
Manage project deliverables in line with approved project plans
Manage or coordinate partners and work groups engaged in project delivery
Lead internal projects and clientfacing (or conference call) meetings
Develop and maintain detailed project plans (following PMI methodologies)
Record, track and manage project issues and risks, escalating concerns when necessary
Manage project scope and change control
Monitor project progress and performance
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