Freelance Senior Project Manager

About the position

Edelman is looking for a freelance Senior Project Manager to support a pharma client for 40 hours per week. 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. This is an exciting opportunity for a process-oriented, go-getter who wants to support a forward-thinking, integrated team. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates and project financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation with input from cross-discipline teams.
• Own the delivery of a work stream 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 assignment and scoped deliverables.
• Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines.
• Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident leadership at all times.

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• 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 tool) is required.

Benefits

• medical and dental insurance
• vision
• 401K
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• paid time off
• travel assistance
• wellness programming