Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Precision AQ's Project Management team as a Senior Project Manager, where you will be a strategic partner and problem solver, planning, executing, and completing projects on schedule and within budget. You will manage multiple accounts, projects, and campaigns of varying complexity, overseeing cross-functional team members throughout the project lifecycle. This role involves mentoring junior project managers and project coordinators, leading team meetings, and ensuring projects adhere to workflows and processes. You will be responsible for communication with clients and stakeholders, monitoring budgets, and identifying opportunities for growth and improvement. The position requires a Bachelor's degree and 4 years of relevant experience in project management. This role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 4 years’ direct work experience in a project management capacity, including all aspects of process and budget development and project planning and execution
• May require travel domestically and/or internationally including overnight stays
• Expertise in project management principles, methods and techniques

Responsibilities

• Project Planning
• Partner with Group Project Managers and Account to develop and manage high-level client plans for the year while aligning to the statement of work (SOW)
• Develop, manage and disseminate complex program/campaign timelines
• Provide timely and actionable input to all account-developed project briefs
• Team Management
• Manage and mentor/coach project manager(s), associate project manager(s) and project coordinator (s)
• Lead the team during weekly internal scrum, status and planning meetings
• Partner with the creative resource manager for resource needs, timing and allocation expectations
• Onboard and train new PM team members
• Workflow/Process
• Understand and advocate for the workflow process, and each team member’s role and responsibility within the workflow
• Review action orders (AOs) to ensure clear and executable direction is provided
• Lead the online routing of projects, while ensuring quality assurance at each step
• Ensure WF data is accurate and up to date
• Communications
• Provide constant communication via teams, Workfront, email, phone, etc. to meet client expectations and deliverables, collaborate/advise around talent assignments on projects
• Advocate for the team while monitoring delivery dates and budget burn
• Provide alternative solutions to ensure project stays on track Lead teams in constructive, solutions oriented communications
• Growth/Advancement Opportunities
• Participation in statement of work (SOW) development and large-scale/annual planning
• Research process and industry practices
• Identify and share best practices
• Liaise with clients and vendor partners manage multi-member team
• Financial
• Scope input and review, scope creep monitoring, recommendations to cover overages, forecasting review, change order ownership, staffing plan ownership, OOP tracking

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient with an online project management workflow tool, experience in Workfront a bonus
• Pharmaceutical experience
• Experienced in managing complex digital, print, and broadcast production projects
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills along with robust attention to detail
• Effectively and efficiently prioritize and manage the execution of tasks in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment
• Assertive and tenacious in conflict resolution

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Health insurance
• Retirement savings benefits
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Parental leave
• Paid time off for sick leave and vacation