Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our team and work across our key accounts – bringing with them extensive experience in delivering a varied selection of content for distribution in social channels, with an enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same.

The Senior Project Manager will be a full-time team member responsible for delivering projects on an ongoing basis, collaborating closely with the Client Service and Creative teams. You will draw on your existing knowledge and expertise of how to produce and deliver social content efficiently, including scoping and estimating projects, deliver timelines, book resources, and manage a fast-moving multi-disciplined team on a daily basis.

You need to be a natural and confident communicator, friendly and approachable with attention to detail and accuracy in all communication, whether internal or external. All We Are Social PMs are client facing, and the ability to build good client and third-party relationships will be integral. You also need to be a confident project team manager, rallying the troops and ensuring the internal team meets deadlines and that relevant check-ins/ reviews happen throughout the project lifecycle.

Another part of the role is focussed on content production. You will ideally have some previous Producer knowledge, i.e. how to prepare and attend/manage (social content) shoots, being able to support the internal creative/design teams and crew and help ensure shoots are properly planned and scoped.

Requirements:

What does the role involve?

• Taking ownership of projects and see them through to completion
• Managing work across various social platforms including social and editorial content, influencer work, events, video etc.
• Creating timelines, booking and managing resources and ensuring that agency resources are used efficiently
• Scoping jobs and writing statements of work
• Managing budgets and reconciling each phase of the job
• Ensuring all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people; both internal sign-off, and client approvals
• Ensure that all project team members also complete their timesheets in a timely fashion, ensuring accurate project actuals
• Track profitability of your account - Monitoring project costs and proactively communicate overruns/financial issues to your senior team member in a timely manner

What are we looking for?

• Knowledgeable on social platforms and understand what good social content is
• Familiar with agency turn-around times and ways of working, good understanding of the dynamics of agency processes, and enjoy the pace and challenges this brings
• Proactive and good at foreseeing problems, with the ability to mitigate issues as soon as they are identified, propose creative solutions, and know when to escalate issues
• Detail oriented and takes responsibility for fulfilling all components of the project/retainer deliverables
• Confident and positive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
• Organized with good attention to detail
• Strong understanding and experience in managing project financials
• Experience in Workbook or similar agency management tool a plus
• Must be a huge sport fan

Benefits

Why work for us?

We Are Social is a global, award-winning creative agency with a network of 15 offices worldwide staffed by 1000+ social experts.

We think you’d like it here!

• Hybrid Work (combination in-office and remote)
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• Full health benefits
• 401(k)