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Joy Anderson

Omaha,NE

Summary

I'm an adaptable, strategic Project Manager with 5+ years of leading cross-functional teams successfully through all phases of the project life cycle. I welcome any opportunity to be collaborative and to motivate a team to achieve the project goal.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Project Manager

Sojern
01.2022 - 12.2023


  • Developed comprehensive project plans with clear milestones, timelines, issue tracking, and progress status to ensure timely delivery of high-quality results.
  • Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
  • Prepared weekly updates for Stakeholders to provide transparency into milestone statuses, roadblocks, and action plans for clear visibility into the overall progress of the project.
  • Scheduled, curated, and conducted monthly meetings to provide updates to the Leadership team to give in-depth details into the work and progress done by the workstreams within each project
  • Strategized cross-functionally with other teams as-needed to perform risk assessments and implement mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues during project execution.
  • Negotiated contracts with product vendors to secure competitive prices for efficient use of resources.
  • Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
  • Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
  • Collaborated closely with Leadership to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
  • Outlined Alpha to Beta milestones, scheduling, and associated resources needs alongside our Product and New Initiatives teams.

Senior Project Manager

Sojern
01.2020 - 12.2021
  • Recruited technical, data engineer, operational, and commercial stakeholders to form a cross-functional, strategic project working group focused on setup automation across multiple vendor platforms in use.
  • Served as technical liaison between engineering, technical operations, advertising operations, and commercial teams to establish an automated processes
  • Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, and planning sessions to validate requirements.
  • Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes, and operational specifications.
  • Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
  • Coordinated with external vendors to deliver IT project components.
  • Generated reports for IT project progress and performance.

Project Manager

Sojern
11.2018 - 12.2019

Projects & Descriptions:

  • Deal Desk: internal review process of non-standard agreements rolled out and used company-wide to ensure mutually beneficial contracts were being executed upon between the company and the client.
  • Dynamic Creative Product Lead: Dynamic Creative or "DCO" is a personalized ad type offering requiring technical setup, QA, and execution, with a substantial amount of cross-functional work needed for each campaign setup.
  • Cost of Goods Sold and Invoicing Support: Collaboration with the Finance department to identify and assign monthly vendor invoicing appropriately
  • Created and standardized a review process called "Deal Desk" to be used by the entire company when non-standard agreement terms needed to be considered by Leadership and/or Senior-level Management
  • Developed training and documentation of the Deal Desk process, held company-wide training sessions, and provided ongoing support of the submissions and review process
  • Conducted monthly meetings with the Deal Desk Committee of Approvers to review submissions and create action items and timelines for next steps
  • Regularly evaluated the review process and made enhancements where needed to improve efficiencies
  • Work directly with product, ad operations and other internal departments to enable smooth product and feature rollouts
  • Provide input to the product development organization that would help to optimize operations, sales workflows and productivity
  • Document all aspects of projects through a detailed project plan and follow-up with resources and stakeholders to keep projects on time and under budget
  • Ensure resource availability and allocation across the ad operations department. Escalate resourcing constraints
  • Provide high-quality communication and visibility into progress, obstacles and needs to the Operations, Sales, and Product leadership team
  • Ability to manage the challenges of juggling multiple projects whilst driving implementations against each one in a seamless fashion
  • Strong abilities to organize, plan and prioritize projects based on impact to the company
  • Great time management, attention to details and attitude
  • Willing to wear multiple hats and roll up your sleeves to get the job done
  • Great with people – ability to work with internal and external teams

Enterprise Account Manager

Sojern
06.2015 - 10.2018
  • Provide account support for large hotel and brand clients including Broadway Shows, Clothing and other retail brands, travel insurance providers, travel agencies, restaurant reservation sites, funeral homes, and airport concessions
  • Coordinate with sales, ad operations and external clients to ensure campaigns are successfully launched and meet client goals
  • Meet frequently with Analysts and Campaign Specialists to idea share and analyze current campaigns to improve and maintain success
  • Provide campaign strategies and brainstorm new ideas and concepts existing and potential clients
  • Analyze and interpret performance data to provide optimization recommendations and client facing reporting
  • Innovate and investigate when necessary to resolve several backend issues including LiveRamp integration and file transfers, attribution discrepancies, pixel implementation issues, CRM integrations with hashed email
  • Examples include LiveRamp integration and file transfers, pixel attribution discrepancies, conversion counting errors, pixel implementation issues, creative tag and tracking errors
  • Serve as a dynamic creative (DCO) product SME for the entire organization
  • Member of the App-Install Beta test team, helping to launch multiple app-install campaigns using AppNexus as a serving platform
  • Work cross-functionally with several internal teams to problem solve technical issues and execute successful campaign and product rollouts
  • Oversaw 30 campaigns valued at $1.9M in GR
  • Assisted in obtaining 103% of team goal in 1H 2018
  • Achieved NR growth of 74% in 2017
  • Lead the account management team in production adoption in 1H 2017
  • Grew net revenue 36% in 2016 by strategizing with current clients to secure incremental budgets
  • Analyze and interpret performance data to provide optimization recommendations, client facing reporting, and ensure client satisfaction and renewal
  • Develop and present business reviews and campaign overviews to strategic clients
  • Provide high-quality service and drive the bar higher for client satisfaction
  • Partner closely with internal teams on day-to-day operational processes and larger, high-impact strategic improvements.

Enterprise Account Manager

Infogroup
02.2010 - 06.2015
  • Serve as primary contact for all clients maintain and grow an assigned base of subscription sales using excellent customer service skills, relationship selling, problem solving, customer education, and revenue collection
  • Assist daily with client direct marketing campaigns and reaching their target markets via our website, Salesgenie.com
  • Develop good working relationships with over 1600 major client accounts with a strong emphasis in the financial and insurance industries
  • Provide ongoing training for clients of Fortune 100 companies
  • Provide usage reports using Excel to increase product usage among current clients
  • Host frequent webinars for current clients to increase usage as well as develop new marketing ideas and maintain meaningful client relations
  • Travel onsite for demos, trainings and successful product implementation
  • Prepare and design product implementation programs for Salesgenie.com (an Infogroup product) to end users and for sales meetings and train personnel to carry out these programs
  • Create training materials for best practices upon product rollout
  • Partner side by side with Outside Sales Representatives to introduce our product to potential clients
  • Work together with Sales Representative assigned to each account in order to grow the account to its full potential by helping to identify opportunities for growth within the account.

Inbound Customer Service Representative

Infogroup
10.2008 - 02.2010
  • Assist customers with pricing and technical product information
  • Dispute billing discrepancies on customer invoices
  • Expedite customer orders
  • Achieved revenue growth and high customer satisfaction through coordination with other departments (i.e
  • Engineering, billing) to solve any issues
  • Responsible for answering both sales calls as well as servicing current client accounts on a queue.

Client Solutions Specialist Trainee

TD Ameritrade
10.2007 - 01.2008
  • Inaugural training group focused on daily needs of mildly aggressive investors.

Government Marketing Representative

Data Security, Inc.
11.2005 - 10.2007
  • Achieved 144% of quota in first year
  • Made cold calls and qualified new leads among military and government agencies.

Education

Bachelor of Science - International Business

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
08.2005

Spanish Minor - Spanish Language And Literature

University of Deusto
Bilbao, Spain

Skills

  • Technical Support
  • Strategic Planning
  • Work Flow Planning
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Tracking
  • Procedure Development
  • Performance Improvements
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Project Scope Analysis
  • Project Planning and Development
  • Advanced Problem Solving
  • Data Review
  • Stakeholder Communications
  • Presentations
  • Client Rapport

Volunteer Experience

  • Pancreatic Cancer Society
  • Yoga Rocks the Park
  • Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
  • Project Purple

Certification

  • PMP - Project Management Professional (in progress)

Awards

Sojern Team Player of the Year - 2022

"Excel at collaborating with Colleagues, bringing many different people together to achieve a common goal. Promotes unity, respect, excellence, and accountability, all while having a great time."


Future Solutions Champion - 2023

"Dedication to Sojern's future by moving the needle for one of our most strategic projects, Cookieless Migration."


Collaboration Champion - 2023

"Team engagement driver who builds company culture, motivates others toward productivity, all while making Sojern a great place to work."



Timeline

Staff Project Manager

Sojern
01.2022 - 12.2023

Senior Project Manager

Sojern
01.2020 - 12.2021

Project Manager

Sojern
11.2018 - 12.2019

Enterprise Account Manager

Sojern
06.2015 - 10.2018

Enterprise Account Manager

Infogroup
02.2010 - 06.2015

Inbound Customer Service Representative

Infogroup
10.2008 - 02.2010

Client Solutions Specialist Trainee

TD Ameritrade
10.2007 - 01.2008

Government Marketing Representative

Data Security, Inc.
11.2005 - 10.2007

Bachelor of Science - International Business

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Spanish Minor - Spanish Language And Literature

University of Deusto
Joy Anderson