Senior Project Manager

The Edelman Project Management team is passionate about finding smart ways to deliver great work. We sit at the center of our business, collaborating with best-in-class teams to ensure Edelman ideas make an impact in our clients’ real worlds. From cars to consumer goods, fashion and retail, financial service, food, and beverage, luxury, technology, or healthcare – we are fanatics about integrated project management that enables our creative, strategy, and account teams to deliver smart and brilliant programming for our clients.
This is an exciting opportunity for a process-oriented, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm, and is eager to be the best in the business. Our Senior Project Managers are fluent in PM fundamentals and best practices – they have the experience to lead the day-to-day work on integrated projects, the drive to ensure flawless execution, and the ability to influence teams to achieve great work within the boundaries of scope, time, and budget. 

About Your Day-to-Day:

• Edelman Senior Project Managers lead the day-to-day workflow of integrated projects and teams. Serving as the common thread on projects, they manage schedules, deliverables, priorities, and teams towards flawless execution. They collaborate with Account and Specialty peers to ensure that project deliverables connect with creative intent while meeting time specifications and budget parameters.
• Demonstrate business acumen by producing top-down and bottom-up estimates, and leading definition of scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, utilizing appropriate tools.
• Lead the development and approval workflow of Statements of Work with Finance, Contracts, and Account teams.
• Through the use of established project management tools, author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates project financial management (OOP & fee), and other relevant project documentation with input from cross-discipline teams.
• Own the delivery of a workstream within large, complex initiatives and/or own mid-size projects independently and with minimal oversight
• Work with the Account and Specialty leads to resolve project-related issues, escalating project blockers and risks to the Project Director.
• Partner with Finance and Account teams to manage and communicate project burn, raise scope creep, share budget reporting, and participate in the monthly forecasting process.
• Participate in client discussions related to project plans and set expectations on due dates needed in order to meet project goals.
• Partner with Resource Management to establish staff plans, providing clarity that aligns specialty team needs with project future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work.
• Oversee, manage, and communicate the status of integrated initiatives across multiple projects to ensure successful delivery against client assignments and scoped deliverables.
• Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines.
• Begin management, leadership, and effective communications training.
• Balance a sense of urgency with calm and confident leadership at all times.

About You:

• A self-reliant multi-tasker, with the ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• A strategic mindset, with a knack for creative and head-on problem-solving
• A bias for action and the ability to confidently lead projects and teams through ambiguity
• A “get things done” and positive mentality
• A passion for both the arts and the science of problem-solving
• A strong and fearless communicator, both verbally and in writing

Basic Qualifications:

• At least 4 years of project management, integrated marketing/PR agency, or related experience 
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Mastery of PM fundamentals and best practices; independently owned small to mid-level sized project delivery
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Smartsheet (or other similar project management tools) is required. 

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