Senior Project Manager

FITZCO

Hungry, curious, growing and never satisfied. That’s Fitzco, a fully-integrated agency with combined capabilities across advertising, strategic planning, media, digital, social, creative technology, performance marketing and design. It’s easy to say that we offer an integrated team. It’s another thing to watch that integration in action. At Fitzco, you’ll notice right away an intimacy in how our media, brand strategy, and creative departments work together in concert. 

Armed with an in-depth understanding of diverse audiences and the willingness to push against category norms to break through, we have successfully brought cultural relevance to brands in a diverse mix of categories, including Home Instead, Wellstar, EyeCare Partners, Optum, Southern Company, Synovus, and more.

This position is based in Atlanta. We're in the office Tuesday and Thursday each week.

POSITION SUMMARY 

The Media Project Manager serves as the operational backbone of the our media account, partnering closely with connections strategy, digital platforms, linear and terrestrial buying teams, analytics, account management, and client teams to drive planning, execution, and optimization across a highly dynamic media ecosystem. 

This role is responsible for managing workflows, timelines and service level agreements, budgets, and deliverables across a large portfolio of local media investments spanning radio, television, CTV/OTT and streaming audio, as well as any additional needs that come up. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment where priorities shift quickly and proactive problem-solving is essential. 

As a key operational leader, the Senior Media Project Manager ensures seamless collaboration across teams while maintaining visibility into campaign delivery, budget pacing, market-level activity, and client initiatives. This individual helps keep the agency and client teams aligned, informed, and moving efficiently toward business objectives. 

Success means media campaigns launch on time, teams stay aligned, and budget or market changes are executed quickly and accurately. Stakeholders have clear visibility into timelines, responsibilities, and status, while stronger processes help the team work more efficiently and deliver effectively for clients.

• Lead Media Workflow & Project Operations 

  • Bring structure, organization, and accountability to all media projects and workflows across the client business. 

  • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, workback schedules, status trackers, and asset calendars. 

  • Facilitate communication across media strategy, activation, analytics, digital platforms, buying team, and client stakeholders. 

  • Identify and flag risks, bottlenecks, resource challenges, and timeline conflicts before they impact deliverables. 

  • Help Connections Strategy leads lead weekly status meetings and ensure clear next steps, ownership, and accountability across teams. 

• Manage Multi-Market Media Initiatives 

  • Coordinate media planning and activation efforts across numerous local markets and business units. 

  • Support implementation of large-scale campaigns, promotions, testing initiatives, and optimization programs. 

  • Maintain visibility into market-level launches, budget shifts, media changes, and performance initiatives. 

  • Ensure all campaign components are launched accurately and on schedule. 

  • Track change requests, scope adjustments, and shifting business priorities. 

• Business Operations 

  • Act as a central point of coordination during periods of rapid business change, budget reallocations, seasonal demand fluctuations, and high-volume campaign activity. 

  • Support operational processes related to weekly optimizations, monthly planning cycles, and market expansions. 

  • Ensure stakeholders have timely visibility into critical milestones, launches, and performance reviews. 

  • Help maintain consistency and operational excellence across a complex, performance-driven account. 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 5+ years of project management, or media operations, with a working knowledge of both traditional and digital media. 

• Experience managing complex integrated marketing campaigns across multiple media channels. 

• Strong understanding of media planning and activation processes, including broadcast, digital, audio, video, and paid social. 

• Experience supporting multi-market or franchise-style businesses with numerous regional campaigns a plus. 

• Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. 

• Strong attention to detail while maintaining visibility across large, complex projects. 

• Proven ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct authority. 

• Ability to thrive in environments with changing priorities, shifting budgets, and aggressive timelines. 

• Advanced proficiency with project management platforms such as Asana, or similar systems.  

• Strong communication skills. 

• Nice to haves: 

  • Local media, or brand marketing experience. 

  • Agency media experience.

  • Experience supporting large-scale multi-location businesses. 

  • Familiarity with project management tools.  

  • Experience coordinating projects involving multi-media channels, both traditional and digital.

Interested? We'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application through the link provided so we can make sure it gets to the right place. We're actively reviewing applications and will be in touch if there is a match. We're unable to accept resumes or applications via email, and we're not partnering with external recruiting agencies on this role at this time.

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of responsibility. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.

Fitzco is an Equal Opportunity Employer EEO/AA and is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.