Freelance- Senior, Project Manager

The role

The Senior Project Manager manages multiple projects or supports senior-level managers on specific clients. They oversee project health, including communications, financial management, resources, and risk mitigation.

What you will do

• Oversee and direct multiple projects or support senior-level project managers.
• Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations regarding time and budget.
• Interface with senior marketing, technical, and executive management at the client.
• Contribute content and presentation of key client deliverables.
• Manage and control project scope and the change control process.
• Supervise and raise awareness of all project issues and risks.
• Communicate relevant project information to the client.
• Contribute to, review, and manage creation of client SOWs.
• Collaborate with the project team to drive approach, deliverables, schedule, and tools.
• Coordinate activities of the project team and facilitate meetings.

Required qualifications

• 5-7 years of demonstrated ability coordinating brand, marketing, campaign and digital projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in project management, advertising/marketing, or related field.
• Experience using project management methodology.
• 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
• Strong knowledge of 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 interact at all levels of the company and with external parties in a professional manner.
• Ability to be highly organized, accurate, and timely.
• Ability to prioritize.
• Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in collaborative environments.

Nice to have

• Experience in a consulting or agency environment.
• Experience managing deliverables against a media plan.

About the company

VSA is a strategy and design agency that blends consumer insights and data with human-centered design. They offer integrated capabilities including branding, advertising, data science and technology.