Freelance Senior Project Manager

Job Title: Freelance Senior Project Manager

About this role: MRM Health is seeking a Freelance Senior Project Manager. We are looking for a candidate who demonstrates strong verbal and written communication skills, who strives to excel professionally in the field of Project Management.

Our ideal candidate will contribute to a positive and collaborative working environment to build and enhance working relationships with clients, external partners and within the agency. This role requires the candidate to have a strong ability to work independently while identifying, analyzing, and resolving problems. This role also requires strong decision-making skills and the ability to communicate confidently and efficiently with managers and team members across all areas of the agency.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the successful development and implementation of multiple, complex solutions
• Effectively planning, problem solving and delivering quality with little supervision
• Manage multiple large-scale projects (launches, programs) simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment
• Facilitate project kickoff meetings
• Create and manage project scope documents and schedules/project plans
• Lead projects with cross-functional teams including creative, technology, QA, User Experience/Information Architecture, production, performance/analytics
• Interact and collaborate knowledgably with clients and partners
• Identify project resource requirements and facilitate staffing
• Coordinate asset deliveries with partners and perform asset quality reviews
• Manage workflow tickets and online collaboration
• Function as a client liaison
• May mentor APMs and PMs

Qualifications:

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, including those with clients
• Able to consistently demonstrate key leadership skills in leading the immediate and broader team and an immediate report to meet project and agency goals
• Able to work expertly under pressure and very comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments
• Able to shift readily between the "big picture" and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each
• Able to work effectively with clients, partners and vendors to deliver an overall solution
• Understands and provides input for the project requirements and ensures alignment of the solutions
• Able to expertly lead and motivate multi-disciplinary project teams
• Able to expertly lead meetings with clients and agency team, and create/deliver persuasive presentations
• Able to manage multiple, concurrent projects
• Able to sell and negotiate solutions
• Strong ability to apply concepts in strategy, marketing and brand management

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 5-8 years’ experience in project management or service management within a professional services company
• Pharmaceutical experience a must; launch experience a plus
• Strong skill level with MS Office experience, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook preferred
• Strong skill level with MS Project or other project plan software (Smartsheet) preferred
• Strong skill level with production tools and proprietary software (Egnyte, JIRA, Content Management Systems, online routing, etc.) preferred
• Strong knowledge of the web and related technologies including (user experience, web development, web services, integration, application management and hosting) preferred
• Strong experience with digital campaigns, including web site builds, digital experiences, email and OLA projects preferred
• Experience with Print, Photo, and/or Video Production a plus (may be required for specific roles.)
• Strong experience with project methodologies, including agile, hybrid, or waterfall
• Excellent project management skills and experience including:
• Schedule development, management, monitoring and oversight
• Resource management and forecasting
• Task and delivery management
• Risk identification and management
• Issue identification and management
• Estimate development, tracking and forecasting project fees and costs without supervision
• Contribute to Project Scope of Work documents and audit to identify risks
• Reconciling project fees and costs for client review
• Delegation to support teams

About MRM

MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency that delivers transformative creative solutions at the intersection of business, culture, and technology. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way, to allow for greater collaboration and velocity—all to the service of helping businesses grow meaningful relationships with people. MRM is part of McCann Worldgroup and the Interpublic Group of companies (NYSE: IPG), and spans 35 offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com.

We love our diverse workplace! MRM is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria.