Pace Co
Integrated Communications, Senior Manager
Pace is a leading integrated marketing agency & digital storytelling powerhouse. We specialize in brand storytelling and deliver results by continually creating better customer experiences for our clients. We connect the dots across an integrated marketing ecosystem using our six key service areas: strategy, creative, media, social, technology, and analytics. Our telecommunications client is looking for Pace to provide augmented staff for a temporary 6-month long project. This role will be an embedded staff member to the client, employed by Pace. This role will required to be
in the office
of our client in Basking Ridge, NJ
OR
in the NYC office next to the One World Trade Center 3 days per week. Therefore, remote candidates will not be considered. POSITION SUMMARY: Our client is seeking a dynamic and experienced Integrated Communications (Project Manager) to lead strategic Peso (Paid, Earned, Shared, Owned) initiatives and oversee program management across the entire Communications organization and Business Unit. This role is pivotal in driving cross-functional collaboration, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering integrated Peso campaigns that align with enterprise-wide business and marketing priorities. Reporting to the Senior Director within the Corporate Communications Peso team, the Senior Manager will serve as a centralized strategic advisor and executional lead—connecting dots across all Communications and Marketing teams, championing best practices, and ensuring the efficient and timely execution of high-impact initiatives. Unlike strategy or messaging roles, this position focuses on orchestrating and managing the execution of holistic Peso plans developed by various teams rather than creating the core strategy or content itself. Serve as the primary internal point of contact to lead and project manage external agency partners to deliver the strategic planning, development, and hands-on tactical execution of consumer-facing, paid, earned, shared and owned strategic initiatives and social and influencer media activations for all Communications and Marketing teams across the Verizon organization, ensuring alignment with corporate business and marketing objectives and timelines. Ensure translation of strategic goals provided by various Communications and Marketing teams into actionable project plans with clear deliverables, milestones, and success metrics while prioritizing across competing concurrent projects, with a strong emphasis on executional detail and campaign delivery. Deliver and represent these strategies and tactics back to cross-functional internal stakeholders, including leadership, as necessary to secure revisions and approvals while ensuring a deep understanding of the strategy and tactics in each plan while anticipating reasonable related questions from stakeholders. Partner with Communications and Marketing leads across the organization to integrate consumer-facing, paid, earned, shared and owned media execution strategies; including social media influencer activations into broader marketing and communications priorities. Governance, Reporting and Optimization: Establish standardized operational processes to include measurement, governance frameworks, and checkpoints for all applicable assigned agency projects across the organization’s Communications and Marketing functions. Support leadership in performance monitoring through effective use of reporting tools, dashboards, and KPI analysis for all paid PR activities conducted for various teams, including social and influencer programs. Provide, with agency support, holistic insight and recommendations based on data, helping to optimize campaign effectiveness and resource allocation across all Communications and Marketing teams. Stakeholder Leadership and Thought Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor and liaison to all cross-functional Communications and Marketing teams, ensuring consistent communication, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle. Influence decision-making and elevate visibility for consumer-facing paid, earned, shared and owned initiatives; including social media and influencer activations through strategic counsel and stakeholder management across the enterprise's Communications and Marketing efforts. Operational Readiness and Efficiency: Drive operational readiness for major consumer-facing, paid, earned, shared and owned initiatives; including social media and influencer activations for any Communications or Marketing team, ensuring resource alignment, presentation preparation, and meeting facilitation to maintain project momentum. Anticipate project roadblocks and proactively develop solutions to meet delivery expectations for various projects across the organization's Communications and Marketing functions. Brand Consistency and Content Coordination: Ensure social and influencer campaign messaging, along with paid, earned, shared and owned media, aligns with overall brand standards and strategic narratives established by various Communications and Marketing teams. Collaborate with Comms and Marketing leads across all teams to ensure storytelling and tactical execution reflect the organization’s voice and positioning WORK ENVIRONMENT/LOCATION Candidates must be able to start ASAP This position requires the use of both Pace-issued and client-issued equipment. The role is based in New Jersey OR NYC and follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring three days per week onsite at the client’s location. Candidates must be able to reliably commute to the New Jersey OR NYC office as part of their work routine JOB QUALIFICATIONS : Education: Experience: Consumer-focused integrated marketing experience (paid, earned, shared, owned) and proven social media or influencer campaign experience. Agency-side experience, doing hands on project management and campaign execution Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training. Experience in strategic communications and integrated marketing, preferably within large organizations or agencies. Strong understanding of (Paid, Earned, Shared, Owned) strategy and its role in reputation management and customer engagement. Experience leading cross-functional Communications and Business unit teams across a large organization and ability manage multiple high-stakes projects simultaneously. Knowledge of performance metrics and KPIs to support effective tracking and reporting across various Communications and Marketing teams and campaigns. Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Air table, Smartsheet, etc.), Google Suite and executive-level presentation development. Even better if you have one or more of the following: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field. Excellent interpersonal, client communication, and influencing skills. WHAT WE OFFER: The salary for this position will range from
$115,000-$145,000
depending on experience, education, geographical location, and other factors. A full suite of benefits is available following one full month of employment including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with profit sharing, and other ancillary benefits. We even have a Life Balanced Account where you can get reimbursed for things like groceries or a haircut (yes, really!) PTO: Vacation, Recharge, Safe & Sick Time, Flexible Holidays + 10 standard paid holidays and a paid Day of Service Free financial wellness and planning and a robust EAP Don’t meet every single requirement? At Pace we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace, so if you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we urge you to apply regardless. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have available. Pace is an equal employment opportunity employer is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Pace does not discriminate against employees or job applicants based on age, ancestry, color, religious creed, race, sex, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, national origin, marital status, disability status, military or veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal or state statutes. Qualifications Skills Behaviors : Motivations Education Experience Licenses & Certifications Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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Pace is a leading integrated marketing agency & digital storytelling powerhouse. We specialize in brand storytelling and deliver results by continually creating better customer experiences for our clients. We connect the dots across an integrated marketing ecosystem using our six key service areas: strategy, creative, media, social, technology, and analytics. Our telecommunications client is looking for Pace to provide augmented staff for a temporary 6-month long project. This role will be an embedded staff member to the client, employed by Pace. This role will required to be
in the office
of our client in Basking Ridge, NJ
OR
in the NYC office next to the One World Trade Center 3 days per week. Therefore, remote candidates will not be considered. POSITION SUMMARY: Our client is seeking a dynamic and experienced Integrated Communications (Project Manager) to lead strategic Peso (Paid, Earned, Shared, Owned) initiatives and oversee program management across the entire Communications organization and Business Unit. This role is pivotal in driving cross-functional collaboration, ensuring operational excellence, and delivering integrated Peso campaigns that align with enterprise-wide business and marketing priorities. Reporting to the Senior Director within the Corporate Communications Peso team, the Senior Manager will serve as a centralized strategic advisor and executional lead—connecting dots across all Communications and Marketing teams, championing best practices, and ensuring the efficient and timely execution of high-impact initiatives. Unlike strategy or messaging roles, this position focuses on orchestrating and managing the execution of holistic Peso plans developed by various teams rather than creating the core strategy or content itself. Serve as the primary internal point of contact to lead and project manage external agency partners to deliver the strategic planning, development, and hands-on tactical execution of consumer-facing, paid, earned, shared and owned strategic initiatives and social and influencer media activations for all Communications and Marketing teams across the Verizon organization, ensuring alignment with corporate business and marketing objectives and timelines. Ensure translation of strategic goals provided by various Communications and Marketing teams into actionable project plans with clear deliverables, milestones, and success metrics while prioritizing across competing concurrent projects, with a strong emphasis on executional detail and campaign delivery. Deliver and represent these strategies and tactics back to cross-functional internal stakeholders, including leadership, as necessary to secure revisions and approvals while ensuring a deep understanding of the strategy and tactics in each plan while anticipating reasonable related questions from stakeholders. Partner with Communications and Marketing leads across the organization to integrate consumer-facing, paid, earned, shared and owned media execution strategies; including social media influencer activations into broader marketing and communications priorities. Governance, Reporting and Optimization: Establish standardized operational processes to include measurement, governance frameworks, and checkpoints for all applicable assigned agency projects across the organization’s Communications and Marketing functions. Support leadership in performance monitoring through effective use of reporting tools, dashboards, and KPI analysis for all paid PR activities conducted for various teams, including social and influencer programs. Provide, with agency support, holistic insight and recommendations based on data, helping to optimize campaign effectiveness and resource allocation across all Communications and Marketing teams. Stakeholder Leadership and Thought Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor and liaison to all cross-functional Communications and Marketing teams, ensuring consistent communication, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle. Influence decision-making and elevate visibility for consumer-facing paid, earned, shared and owned initiatives; including social media and influencer activations through strategic counsel and stakeholder management across the enterprise's Communications and Marketing efforts. Operational Readiness and Efficiency: Drive operational readiness for major consumer-facing, paid, earned, shared and owned initiatives; including social media and influencer activations for any Communications or Marketing team, ensuring resource alignment, presentation preparation, and meeting facilitation to maintain project momentum. Anticipate project roadblocks and proactively develop solutions to meet delivery expectations for various projects across the organization's Communications and Marketing functions. Brand Consistency and Content Coordination: Ensure social and influencer campaign messaging, along with paid, earned, shared and owned media, aligns with overall brand standards and strategic narratives established by various Communications and Marketing teams. Collaborate with Comms and Marketing leads across all teams to ensure storytelling and tactical execution reflect the organization’s voice and positioning WORK ENVIRONMENT/LOCATION Candidates must be able to start ASAP This position requires the use of both Pace-issued and client-issued equipment. The role is based in New Jersey OR NYC and follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring three days per week onsite at the client’s location. Candidates must be able to reliably commute to the New Jersey OR NYC office as part of their work routine JOB QUALIFICATIONS : Education: Experience: Consumer-focused integrated marketing experience (paid, earned, shared, owned) and proven social media or influencer campaign experience. Agency-side experience, doing hands on project management and campaign execution Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training. Experience in strategic communications and integrated marketing, preferably within large organizations or agencies. Strong understanding of (Paid, Earned, Shared, Owned) strategy and its role in reputation management and customer engagement. Experience leading cross-functional Communications and Business unit teams across a large organization and ability manage multiple high-stakes projects simultaneously. Knowledge of performance metrics and KPIs to support effective tracking and reporting across various Communications and Marketing teams and campaigns. Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Air table, Smartsheet, etc.), Google Suite and executive-level presentation development. Even better if you have one or more of the following: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or related field. Excellent interpersonal, client communication, and influencing skills. WHAT WE OFFER: The salary for this position will range from
$115,000-$145,000
depending on experience, education, geographical location, and other factors. A full suite of benefits is available following one full month of employment including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with profit sharing, and other ancillary benefits. We even have a Life Balanced Account where you can get reimbursed for things like groceries or a haircut (yes, really!) PTO: Vacation, Recharge, Safe & Sick Time, Flexible Holidays + 10 standard paid holidays and a paid Day of Service Free financial wellness and planning and a robust EAP Don’t meet every single requirement? At Pace we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and genuine workplace, so if you’re enthusiastic about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we urge you to apply regardless. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles we have available. Pace is an equal employment opportunity employer is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Pace does not discriminate against employees or job applicants based on age, ancestry, color, religious creed, race, sex, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, national origin, marital status, disability status, military or veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal or state statutes. Qualifications Skills Behaviors : Motivations Education Experience Licenses & Certifications Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
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