Senior Project Manager- Freelance

About the role

VML is seeking a Senior Project Manager-Freelance to lead omnichannel work across multiple workstreams with a focus on the customer at the center. This role requires agency experience in both digital and integrated marketing, building digital experiences and creating compelling content.

Responsibilities

• Deliver work that is excellent, on time, on budget AND goes beyond the brief.
• Motivate, direct and challenge teams to produce great work.
• Establish and manage cross-functional teams across different locations that are collaborative, efficient and high-functioning.
• Establish and manage program communication and process.
• Responsible for project estimation, planning and profitability.
• Build detailed project plans; manage resource allocations; and report on project status, burn rates, budgets and reconciliations to agency and client stakeholders.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on project leadership experience in advertising or marketing communications in a client-facing role, ideally at a creative agency or similar.
• Proven track record in driving creative solutions and digital content creation.
• Knowledge of social and mobile content creation and requirements for different channels.
• Customer experience and journey mapping, e-commerce, retail and consumer brand marketing experience are highly desired.
• Good understanding of emerging web standards, user-centered design (UX/UI), optimization and search practices.
• Experience working on large-scale integrated, omnichannel programs with multiple parallel work streams and diverse teams (UX, Tech, Strategy, Creative, Account, Research and Data) across remote offices.
• High EQ and the ability to read what a team needs to help motivate them.
• Self-motivated and driven to build and create great work.

Qualifications

• Ability and appetite to create and bring people together and inspire solutions.
• Optimistic, open and collaborative.
• Ego-less.

Skills

• Process-oriented and an innovator with a strong point of view and distinct voice.

Benefits

The compensation for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package. Click WPP Benefits for more details.

Pay

$65—$85 USD

Schedule

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we've adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week.