Freelance Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Driver of internal agency process; ensuring team adheres to process guidelines, and problem solving issues.
• Keeping teams committed, motivated, and productive through the duration of the project
• Partners with Project Planners to fully understand, and execute to established estimates and work plans
• Responsible for partnering with the resource managers and studio teams in assigning Creative team members to projects
• Working within the Wrike system, writes tasks providing clear direction on deliverables
• Partners with the Creative Director and Project Planners to flag any concerns on directive and to resolve logistics
• Accurately captures next steps, client deliverables, etc. through conference reports or meeting recaps and distributes to appropriate team members
• Leading discussions on issue resolutions and reporting these potential issues to leadership, when necessary
• Ensures that Client Management is communicating with Creative during client conversations and in preliminary discussions involving project ideas & direction and vice versa
• Acts as the “glue” in project development
• Ensures that project directive and documentation have taken place to appropriate team members
• This includes proactively communicating to other team members who are affected by the directive
• Has a thorough understanding and knowledge of what it takes creatively to develop projects (project steps, creative responsibilities and skills)
• Utilizes this knowledge in helping staff for projects, tracking projects, problem solving, etc.
• Creates/distributes team daily status/updates, and pulls together key project groups as necessary
• Runs weekly team status meetings
• Ensures that all pieces are properly routed and reviewed by team members with the help of Project Coordinators
• Helping to train new PMs as they are onboarded into the organization
• Other duties as needed to meet the needs of the team.

Requirements

• Educational background: BS or BA (or relevant experience)
• Experience: 4+ years previous in advertising/marketing project management

Skills

• Project Management: Good at establishing clear directions; effective communicator; problem-solver; adaptable communication style; organized; understands job responsibilities of others and functions appropriately
• Technical Expertise: MS Office Suite