Senior Project Manager

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dna is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager for the Project Management team to work on one of our largest and fastest growing accounts. This role will work closely with our client experience (account), creative, finance, and strategy teams, partnering closely with the account leads to manage account and project-level deliverables and budgets.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with creative, strategy, account management and other internal teams to help drive best-in-class solutions for medium to large programs and accounts
• Manage project deliverables across multiple medium to large scale campaigns and help coordinate various functions including creative, strategy, insights, paid media, and analytics
• Professionally manage medium to large scale engagements with account team partners focusing on balancing quality, cost and schedule, while exceeding client expectations
• Set expectations at the beginning of a project: as any issues arise, find solutions without compromising quality, team morale, or budget
• Be the conductor of a project/team and a proactive, solution-oriented, and strategic advisor
• Ability to prioritize work for the team and self with the ability to be pivot based on new information.
• Manage account budgets, scopes, and time while providing frequent updates to key stakeholders
• Partner with account leadership and finance to facilitate accurate and realistic staffing and budget forecasts; actively manage any forecast mitigation as needed
• Partner with account leadership to manage team onboarding processes, including educating team members on roles and responsibilities, processes, and templates
• Serve as contact for our Client Finance team, managing monthly billing, budget reconciliations, and scoping
• Demonstrate strong, professional work ethic and financial acumen

Requirements:

• 6+ years of Project Management experience, preferably in an agency setting
• Current or previous experience supporting healthcare/pharma clients
• Strong financial management skills, including scoping, burn report tracking, resource allocation across project tasks; prior experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets and scopes
• Experience with different types of programs and deliverables, such as strategic planning, creative ideation, video, social and editorial content, digital, and partner management
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal team members across multiple disciplines and levels, instilling confidence, and trust in your abilities
• Be comfortable digging into account finances: developing staffing models, writing SOWs, tracking burn rates, etc.
• Experience working closely with the implementation of an integrated media mix of paid, owned and earned programs
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with team members across multiple levels, building trust in your abilities to get the job done effectively
• Have excellent organization and time management skills

Bonus: any project management certifications or courses taken.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

NYC Salary range: $90,000 - $110,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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