Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GSW, powered by Syneos Health, is a full-service healthcare communications agency that creates personalized brand experiences. The Freelance Senior Project Manager leads multidisciplinary teams and manages agency projects across multichannel tactics, ensuring work is planned, coordinated, and delivered on time and within budget.
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
- Play a central role in risk analysis. The Sr PM must be adept at identifying potential roadblocks related to budgets, resources and timelines. 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
- Ensure 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
Skills
- 4+ years previous in advertising/marketing project management
- 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
- BS or BA (or relevant experience)
- Project Management software (nice to have)
Benefits
- As a Syneos Health freelance, temporary, or contract employee, you may be eligible to participate in the Company 401k match and benefits such as paid time off or benefits through provisions in the Affordable Care Act or State-specific requirements depending on the terms of your employment.
- Syneos Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements for temporary/freelance/contract employees.
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