Senior Project Manager

Company Description

CoLab is a fully integrated, cross-discipline team that provides best-in-class services in a fluid and modular way. With our clients at the center, we create brand movement at the speed of people’s lives by connecting real-time data with world-class creative, content, and media in service of growth and ROI. 

CoLab is a “power of one” solution, encompassing data, media, and production. By drawing from across the vast Publicis Groupe network, we are uniquely positioned to deliver innovation and specialized skills to our clients, as well as enriching opportunities and inclusive benefits to our employees. We pride ourselves on combining the energetic atmosphere of a startup company with the stability and experience of a global leader.

Job Description

The Senior Project Manager leads the production of multi-channel projects of large size or complexity, and is ultimately responsible for the delivery of high quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. Career manages at least one person.   

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Key Responsibilities   

• PM Technical Skills: Proficient in project managing via a flexible approach. Well-versed in production needs; considered an expert in at least one channel (interactive/digital, print, or video) but understands other mediums well enough to be a strategic problem solver   
• SOWs: Prepares complex statements of work, with quick turnaround time and minimal revisions. Creates or reviews statement of work documentation; accountable for top-down and bottom-up budgets to ensure scopes accurately reflect required work effort   
• Client finances: Accurately calculates cost-to-complete estimates   
• Thought process: Regularly demonstrates critical thinking skills   
• Technology: Continuously learning technology and ability to quickly adapt to new technologies   
• Agency process: Advocate and champion of agency processes. Able to define team process, communication plan and rules of engagement and manages team adherence  

Strategy   

• Creativity: Finds creative alternative solutions to resource and time constraints   
• Project Plans: Creates and manages master project plans and timelines via a cross-capability collaborative approach   
• Quality Control: Ensures team adherence to QC plan   
• Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies. Identifies opportunities to streamline processes and to create efficiencies and suggests alternative solutions   
• Trouble shoot: Solution oriented. Brings problems with potential solutions to the attention of management.   
• Conflict resolution: Arbitrates team conflicts and facilitates cross-capability solutions   
• Resource allocation: Leads resource allocation discussions on the project-level with cross-capability team   
• Collaboration: Keeps team informed of changes. Communicates clearly and frequently. Leads team communication plan; monitors and adjusts as needed to ensure effective and efficient communication.   
• Project risk: Actively mitigates risk by identifying quality, budget, and timeline impacts   

Tactics and Execution   

• Finances: Responsible for cost management across portfolio of projects. Provides accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects   
• Conflict resolution: Proactively contributes to conflict resolution across channels   
• Resources: Leads resource planning   
• Vendors: Manages 3rd party vendor engagement   
• Execution: Manages production of engagements from award to completion   
• Change process: Manages change request process, identifying and documenting changes in scope   
• Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Positive influence within department. Develops strong and positive working relationships with other departments/ stakeholders   
• Management: Mentors and directs the activity of one or more Associates or Senior Associates   
• Culture: Promotes and contributes to business unit’s culture and environment   
• On-boarding: On boards new team members to the brand/ agency process   

Client Relationship   

• Problem solving: Confident problem solver; willing and able to have difficult conversations   
• Relationship: Engages with client procurement staff. Builds rapport and credibility with client peer based on trust and expert counsel   
• Client process: Has intim