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About the Role
Edelman is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their New York team. This role will oversee the day-to-day execution of integrated communications and marketing campaigns, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and on budget. The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced agency environment, working closely with various teams to drive seamless execution and maintain operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day project management across multiple brands and integrated campaigns, from kickoff through final delivery.
- Develop and maintain project timelines, workback schedules, milestones, and deliverable trackers.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on project priorities, responsibilities, and deadlines.
- Proactively identify project risks, dependencies, and potential roadblocks, escalating issues and recommending solutions.
- Facilitate internal status meetings, project kickoffs, and cross-functional check-ins.
- Ensure project deliverables meet agreed-upon timelines, scope, and quality expectations.
- Partner with Account and discipline leads to develop project scopes of work, staffing plans, and estimates.
- Track project budgets, burn rates, and resource allocations.
- Monitor scope changes and flag out-of-scope requests, supporting the development of incremental estimates and change orders.
- Develop a strong understanding of client procurement systems and processes, managing scope submissions, change orders, and purchase orders.
- Support monthly financial forecasting, budget reconciliation, and project reporting.
- Maintain accurate project financials and documentation in agency systems.
- Partner with Resource Management and department leads to identify staffing needs and secure appropriate resources.
- Monitor team capacity, utilization, and competing priorities across multiple projects.
- Support the development and maintenance of efficient workflows, processes, and project management tools.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency and streamline ways of working.
- Serve as a central point of coordination across internal teams, ensuring clear communication and accountability.
- Partner closely with Account leadership to manage client expectations, timelines, and delivery commitments.
- Participate in client meetings as needed to communicate project status, milestones, and next steps.
- Build strong working relationships across disciplines and foster a collaborative, solutions-oriented team environment.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of project management experience, preferably within a PR, advertising, marketing, or integrated communications agency.
- A bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple complex, cross-functional projects simultaneously.
- Strong understanding of integrated campaign development and execution, including earned media, social, influencer, creative, and production.
- Experience developing scopes of work, project estimates, timelines, and staffing plans.
- Strong financial management skills, including budget tracking, forecasting, and scope management.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to navigate shifting priorities, tight deadlines, and multiple stakeholders.
- Experience supporting large, complex client accounts or consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands is a plus.
Skills
- Smartsheet
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- $72,000 - $100,000 a year
Benefits
- Medical and dental insurance
- Vision
- 401K
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Paid time off
- Travel assistance
- Wellness programming
About the Company
- We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging. Consistent with this approach, we hire the best qualified candidates for all positions.
Equal Opportunity
- DJEH is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and believes in diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability, military and veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation in any part of the employment process, please let us know.