Senior Project Specialist

IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. IDC helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community make fact-based decisions on technology purchases and business strategy. More than 1,100 IDC analysts provide global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries worldwide. For 50 years IDC has provided strategic insights to help our clients achieve their key business objectives. IDC’s Insights businesses provide industry-focused advice for IT buyers in the Financial, Government, Health, Retail, Manufacturing and Energy verticals. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research, and events company. You can learn more about IDC by visiting .

This position will be responsible for managing all the research schedules, tracking milestones, and creating efficiencies within the process relating to a complex research document.

• Create a dashboard to manage 200+ projects.
• Scoping out and managing a dashboard and escalation process.
• Mapping out milestones to help with escalation management.
• Build a relationship with all of the Project Coordinators (all levels) and be in constant communication around where escalations need to be identified.
  • Create and implement new escalation processes as needed.
• Ability to communicate with leadership around sensitive issues that arise.
• Ability to manage stakeholders expectations around new escalation implementations.

• Applicants should have at least 5 years working experience as project specialist/project manager.
• Experience building out dashboards.
• Willing to work 7pm to 4am shift local time in Manila to maximize overlap with U.S time zones
• Ability to communicate and interact with many different personalities and roles within and outside the organization
• Extremely organized, good with time management and communicates succinctly and often.
• Willingness to identify areas of need and to be able to assist by taking on many different types of project activities
• Reliable
• Excellent English language skill – spoken and written
• Strong writing skills with the ability to synthesize various inputs into a written format
• Anticipates and heads off problems that can jeopardize deadlines
• Personal time management with the ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities
• Basic research skills and knowledge

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