Sr. Project Manager serves as the project management and operations lead on large client accounts, partnering with Business Leadership to nurture client relationships, deliver accurate financial management of the account/brand. The Sr. Project Manager may also be called on to develop staffing and pricing proposals for new business/annual scope negotiation

• Works with the internal/IAT Project Managers to monitor cost, schedules, while working to ensure the ultimate success of the program.
• Partnership with the SVP in scope negotiation
• Leadership and management of the monthly client forecast and reconciliation as well as oversees the billing process
• Responsible for leading and developing the internal workflows/process
• Interfaces with all areas affected by projects including end users, distributors, and vendors
• Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables
• Proposes enhancements to organization’s Program Management Methodology / Framework
• Responsible for project set-up and implementation internally and with the client according to agreed upon process

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supervises from 1 to 5 employees within the Project Management Group
• Demonstrates expert knowledge of internal process flow
• Ensures adherence to internal process standards
• Mentors other PMs in process training via internal workshops, and one on one coaching /mentoring.
• Demonstrates mastery of all common interactive project types

TRAITS

Core

• Proactive attitude – constantly planning with an eye toward the future
• Works until the work of the moment is done. Many times, that is after 5pm
• Demonstrates diplomacy and patience when it comes to challenging situations w/ internal and external teams and stakeholders
• Demonstrates superior prioritization skills and ability to change focus on a dime for a given day. There will usually be too much work to get done at any given time, but it all eventually needs to get done
• Has ability to see things from all points of view, not just the PM point of view. This includes billing, finance, account management, creative, tech, executive management

Project Management

• Eye towards continual process improvement in relation to project management processes (e.g. project execution, estimating, forecasting, planning, reporting)

Operations

• In-depth understanding of the financial operations of running an account at the portfolio level
• Ability to lead/defend the financial status of account with Account SVP
• Eye towards continual process improvement in relation to account level operational processes (time tracking, job management, work intake, resource management, financial operations, SOW operations, billing, portfolio planning, reporting)

Leadership

• Recognized as the “on the ground” financial and project management process and policy expert, steward
• Ability to drive the team toward common goals as it relates to the internal and client process
• Intuition to stave off issues and drive results
  • Stay in front of issues
  • Results driven with discipline

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a Sr. Project Manager role
• BA Degree
• Supervisory Experience

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