VSA Partners · 1 hour ago
Freelance Senior, Project Manager
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
5+ years expVSA Partners is a strategy and design agency that focuses on enhancing human experiences through consumer insights and human-centered design. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple projects, ensuring they meet client expectations, and overseeing project communications, financial management, and risk mitigation.
AdvertisingDigital MarketingMarketing
Responsibilities
Oversee and direct multiple projects at a time or support senior-level project managers on a given client/program, or across multiple clients/programs
Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations, including being on time and on budget
Interface heavily with senior marketing, technical, and executive management at the client to ensure the solution is understood and addresses the customer’s business requirements
Contribute content and presentation of key client deliverables as needed to ensure relevancy, strategy, quality, timeliness, and adherence to SOWs
Manage and control project scope and the change control process to ensure that projects are executed according to agreed-upon scope, schedule, and budget
Supervise and raise awareness of all project issues and risks, working with appropriate team members to develop solutions
Communicate relevant project information to the client, such as status, risk, issues, or deliverables
Contribute to, review, and manage creation of client SOWs, ensuring accuracy and legal and financial compliance
Collaborate with the project team to drive the approach, deliverables, schedule, and tools to deliver the project within established constraints; ensure accurate financial management of projects
Coordinate activities of the project team and ensure project tasks, including scheduling and facilitating project-related team meetings (i.e., kickoffs, status, internal/client reviews), conveying action steps to the team, and delivering weekly status reports to project team, the client, and management
Work with Accounting to manage project billing schedules, including reviewing invoices and tracking fees and expenses
Develop, maintain, review, and/or disseminate project documentation, including status reports, invoices, change orders, project timelines, budgets, and sunset reviews
Ensure project documentation is produced in the standard format, follows internal documentation processes, and is reviewed and approved
Work with Resource Management to ensure projects are appropriately staffed, including both employee and contract resources
Partner with, manage communications, and execute project scope requirements with sister agencies within contract parameters
Additional responsibilities as assigned
Qualification
Required
5-7 years of demonstrated ability coordinating brand, marketing, campaign and digital projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment
Bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in project management, advertising/marketing, or related field
Experience using project management methodology, including the ability to develop and track scopes of work, identify and resolve issues, mitigate risk, develop detailed task-based project plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and lead team meetings
Experience with project life cycles, print and digital production processes, and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components, advertising projects, brand strategy, and research projects
Ability to develop and demonstrate an understanding of the client's business, needs, expectations, and requirements
Strong knowledge of one or more of the following: web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and technology components, advertising, digital marketing, print, strategy, and research
Strong digital literacy in MS Office/Google Suite (particularly Excel/Sheets), email, project, and team communication software (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, Slack, DoneDone)
Strong organizational and time management skills
Strong team player; ability to assist with facilitating teams and clients
Ability to interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner, maintaining effective communication—both written and spoken
Ability to be highly organized, accurate, and timely; able to prioritize
Adaptability, flexibility, persistence, versatility, and ability to handle multiple projects and changing priorities
Ability to organize information, pay attention to detail, accurately follow procedures, maintain confidential information, and remember important pieces of information
Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in collaborative environments
Preferred
Experience managing deliverables against a media plan is a plus
Company
VSA Partners
VSA Partners offers interconnected branding and communications solutions for today's increasingly cross-channel.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-01-27Acquired
Leadership Team
Dana Arnett
CEO
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