Sr. Project Manager

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 as needed.
• Facilitate internal status meetings, project kickoffs, and cross-functional check-ins to keep teams aligned and accountable.
• 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 to ensure financial health.
• Monitor scope changes and proactively flag out-of-scope requests, supporting the development of incremental estimates and change orders.
• Develop a strong understanding of our client's procurement systems and processes, managing scope submissions, change orders, and purchase orders (POs) in partnership with Account teams, PM leadership, and Finance.

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.

Preferred

• 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.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as Smartsheet, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience supporting large, complex client accounts or consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands is a plus.

Benefits

• DJEH offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.