Project Director (Mergers and Acquisitions)
Posted on: 7 Dec 2021
New York, New York
Job Description
Job Description:
Dow Jones is looking to hire a Project Director to manage a variety of projects related to the Project Management Office and play a key role in the successful inorganic growth of the company. The project manager is responsible for tracking and maintaining documentation for a variety of projects within the group. The candidate will work with the teams to drive project plans and communicate with various levels of management regarding project status.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
Partner with business stakeholders to drive execution of various initiatives, including the end-to-end delivery of M&A integration activities across the company
Provides strategic recommendations on processes and important milestones for M&A integration, business projects, and PMO activities
Monitors and tracks project progress against project deliverables; communicates project status, including roadblocks, milestones, successes with all project stakeholders.
Coordinate project logistics including: scheduling meetings, updating timelines, communicating deliverables, distributing materials, etc.
Ensures collaboration and information sharing among workstreams through transparency and effective communication
Proactively manage and escalate issues as required; continuously identifies dependencies and project risks.
Maintain reports and documentation
Knowledge/Experience:
Demonstrated success in managing high-volume technology staffing projects/ programs
Demonstrates ability to think strategically towards organizational and business future growth
Excellent project coordination, multi-tasking and cross-functional skills required
Possesses strong communication and organizational skills with the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources and provide strategic insight
Proven ability to work independently and with initiative to tight deadlines.
Excellent interpersonal, communication skills; ability to forge relationships across all levels of the organization
High-level of creativity, adaptability and persistence to find the best solutions.
The ability to plan, organize, schedule and coordinate multiple tasks to achieve objectives.
Works effectively in a fast-pace environment with multiple competing deadlines
Strong MS suite skills: Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Strong ability to collect and interpret information
Excellent analytical skills and a close attention to detail; including data analysis, ability to sort through vast quantities of data quickly
Strong familiarity with statistical techniques
Strong ability to coordinate and organize teams around aggressive deliverables
Energetic, passionate, driven, and can adapt quickly to changes
Knowledge and experience in the Information Services or Energy industries preferred
News Corp.
New York, New York
News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes content for consumers and businesses worldwide. It operates in five segments: News and Information Services, Book Publishing, Digital Real Estate Services, Subscription Video Services, and Other. The company distributes content and data products, including The Wall Street Journal, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and DJX through various media channels, such as newspapers, newswires, Websites, mobile device applications, tablets and e-book readers, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video, and podcasts. It also owns and operates daily, Sunday, weekly, and bi-weekly newspapers comprising The Australian, The Weekend Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, The Advertiser, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, and New York Post, as well as digital mastheads and other Websites.
In addition, the company offers home-delivered shopper media that include free-standing inserts and direct mail products; in-store marketing products and services primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers; in-store merchandising services; and digital marketing solutions. Further, it publishes general fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and religious books; and provides sports programming content to approximately 200 channels distributed through cable, satellite, and Internet protocol, as well as broadcast rights to live sporting events. Additionally, the company offers property and property-related services on its Websites and mobile applications, as well as residential and commercial property Websites; online real estate services; and professional software and services products, which comprise Top Producer, FiveStreet, and ListHub. News Corporation was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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IndustryMedia/Entertainment
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