Amaze, Inspire, Unite
Job Summary:
The Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives supports the Executive Business Partner, Strategic Initiatives in translating executive priorities into organized project plans, coordinated action, and measurable progress. This role helps manage the day-to-day planning, tracking, communication, and follow-through required to advance cross-functional initiatives across Ilitch Sports + Entertainment.
The Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives provides structure, organization, and execution support for projects that involve senior leaders, business units, and functional teams. This individual is responsible for building and maintaining project plans, tracking milestones and action items, preparing status updates, identifying risks and dependencies, and ensuring stakeholders have the information needed to move work forward. The role requires strong project management discipline, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, project management, communications, operations, or a related field.
- Five or more years of experience in project management, business operations, strategy execution, executive support, or a comparable role coordinating cross-functional work.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, organize complex information, track details, and drive follow-through in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear project updates, meeting summaries, reports, and stakeholder communications.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills with a high level of accuracy, attention to detail, and follow-through.
- Ability to influence outcomes, gain alignment, and drive accountability across teams without direct reporting authority
- Sound judgment and the proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Agile, Lean, or similar certification.
- Experience in sports, entertainment, media, hospitality, or a similarly dynamic, multi-brand enterprise.
- Experience using project management or collaboration tools such as Microsoft Planner, Smartsheet, Wrike, Asana, Monday.com, or similar platforms.
- Experience supporting executive-level initiatives, leadership meetings, strategic planning processes, or enterprise-wide operational projects.
- Familiarity with basic data analysis, reporting, and visualization to support project tracking and decision-making.
- Familiarity in making executive presentations.
Core Competencies:
- Adaptability: Thrives amid ambiguity and shifting priorities, remaining organized, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
- Project Management: Builds structure around complex work, manages timelines and deliverables, tracks progress, and keeps stakeholders aligned.
- Execution & Accountability: Follows through on commitments, clarifies ownership, documents decisions, and helps ensure next steps are completed.
- Communication: Shares information clearly and professionally through project updates, meeting materials, summaries, and stakeholder communications.
- Organization & Attention to Detail: Maintains accurate records, trackers, schedules, and documentation while balancing multiple priorities.
- Collaboration: Builds effective relationships across teams, coordinates input from multiple stakeholders, and supports a productive team environment.
- Adaptability: Remains flexible, proactive, and solutions-oriented amid shifting priorities, ambiguity, and time-sensitive needs.
- Discretion & Judgment: Handles confidential information appropriately and demonstrates professionalism in executive-level work.
Working Conditions:
- Works primarily in a professional office environment.
- May require extended hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, to support the operating calendars of the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Tigers.
- Occasional travel may be required.
- This role requires frequent visual and auditory attention in an environment with regular interruptions, shifting priorities, and time-sensitive project needs.
The above is intended to describe the essential job functions, the general supplemental functions and the essential requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of all supplemental duties, responsibilities, or nonessential requirements. The Company has the right to change, modify, suspend, interrupt or cancel in whole or in part any job functions outlined in a job description at any time and without advance notice to the colleague.
All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive. They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Olympia Entertainment.
Olympia Entertainment is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.
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