Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Start: ASAP
Duration: 3 month contract with potential to extend- 40 hours/weekly
Location: Remote, United States
Pay Rate: $45.00-$50.00/hourly
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager I to join our client's dynamic team. You will play a major role in helping them reach their goals as you:
Responsibilities in these four main areas include:
Process
- Oversee and manage end-to-end development of projects per the business process, verify that project deliverables are within project scope and are delivered above expected quality standards, ensuring quality from the beginning to end
- Internal check/balance to verify acceptable quality levels before delivered internally to the Account Team
- Create project status documents to provide updates across all chains of command, both internally and externally
- Leads daily and weekly production meetings
- Maintains PM systems of record
Timelines
- Craft initial and ongoing project milestones for clients and vendor/agency partners
- Create, update, and maintain detailed project schedules and ensure all deliverables are met per the schedule
Budgets
- Create, update, and maintain detailed staffing plans and ensure all deliverables are met and stay within the budget
- Monitors project & campaign budgets weekly
- Creates and maintains client budget report with finance assistance as needed
Resources
- Identify and avert possible risks that impact projects
- Strong spokesperson and an advocate for the entire team
- Owns vendor/agency partner relationship in terms of execution and deliverables
- First point of contact in identifying the need for internal and external resources for existing projects & working with resourcing manager to secure project resources and with other PMs to prioritize resources' work
- Balance project schedules, deliverables, and resource needs across existing and new client/internal projects
Additional responsibilities
- Participate in account planning, providing the execution strategy (pricing, deliverables and timing) for all projects
- Support training of assistant project managers
- Mentoring assistant PM, including bi-weekly 1:1 meetings
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience
- Agency experience
- Bachelor’s degree (BA)
- Experience managing a team of 10-15 including, but not limited to, account services, creative, strategist, database, interactive, and print production
- Experience working with multiple vendors, managing their timelines and needs
- Experience training team members
- Experience using MS Project or SmartSheets
- Advanced experience using a Project Management financial platform
- Experience using a content re