Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Movers+Shakers is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale campaigns in collaboration with various departments. The role involves overseeing project execution, managing resources, and ensuring timely delivery while optimizing processes for efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for success of project execution, delivering on time, on budget and as scoped
- Track hours and budgets against those set in SOW & internal tracking systems
- Map out project planning, including overall phases, key deliverables or goals, important milestones, and what resources are needed when
- Provide operational support to ensure team members are on track with delivery dates by scheduling meetings, hosting internal check-ins, drafting and posting meeting notes, developing lists of action items, and communicating assignments, deadlines and needs
- Provide project-level input that furthers the efficiency and quality of the work and advocate for the agency/client relationship
- Understand staffing and scope requirements, with ability to inform scopes of work
- Facilitate business objectives and expectations and communicate changes/directions to internal team members
- Facilitate communication between all departments (Account, Creative, Strategy, Media, Production, and Executive Leadership)
- Assess projects to proactively identify blind spots and roadblocks, then move quickly to resolve issues as soon as possible
- Pre-project - work with cross-functional teams to estimate hours from each team for each phase to inform budget, then monitor hours burned against the estimate
- Schedule resources for each phase, including estimated dates and resources that will be needed
- Work with team leads to assign best team members based on expertise and background
- Escalate to team leads if deadlines, hours burned or scope are in jeopardy
- Actively drive projects forward by keeping cross-functional teams on target with an eye on the horizon for potential pitfalls
- Work with the account team to secure client input, feedback, and approvals on our work
- Work with production team to manage deadlines, timelines and budgetary needs
- Audit, support and recommend/build processes, systems, and documents to improve strategy and operational efficiency
- Work simultaneously on multiple clients’ programs within tight deadlines and moving parts, seeing projects through from start to finish
- Potential client integration on key projects as needed
- Spread joy!
Skills
- 5-7 years of project management in a marketing/creative agency setting, preferably in innovative social media campaigns, video content production, and influencer campaigns
- Expert at managing large-scale, complex projects with multiple phases and moving parts, ideally having worked on campaigns $2M+
- Solid background working with cross-functional teams across client service, strategy, creative and production
- Proficient with Google Suite
- Experience with project management software, such as Asana/Salesforce & Harvest, etc
- Extensive experience and fluency in social media, supporting campaign management across omni-channels w/in social media
- Stellar communication skills and ability to 'speak the language' of each department
- Passion for delighting clients and going above & beyond
- Keen eye for detail with the foresight to think about the bigger picture
- Super organized, able to manage a ton of things simultaneously and follow tight deadlines
- Proactive
- Adaptive
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