Freelance | Contract Senior Project Manager - Europe

Fueled is a leading digital strategy, design, and engineering agency, and they are seeking a Contract Senior Project Manager. The role involves strategic project management, client delivery, and ensuring high-quality deliverables while leading cross-discipline teams.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the day-to-day Project Manager for assigned active projects; exhibiting senior-level ownership over assigned project scopes/plans, client meetings, written status updates, demos, risk management and iterative scope / expectation management
• Consistently track and analyze project progress and budget burn, and work with group and project leadership to escalate concerns and/or risks, and mitigate appropriately
• Ensure superior quality deliverables by collaboratively engaging cross-discipline leadership, and enforcing rigorous QA processes and standards to provide end to end delivery and client satisfaction
• Lead discovery engagements (onsite and remotely) that expertly define cross-discipline project requirements and that demonstrate an expert understanding of underlying client business goals and objectives
• Proactively recognize and realize opportunities to deepen client partnerships and expand account value

Requirements:

• Experience delivering full scope CMS-based web projects for enterprise clients, ideally in an agency environment, and preferably with a practical understanding of the WordPress platform
• Ability to describe tangible examples of deescalating project risks by working with members of your team and leadership to develop collaborative solutions
• Primarily client-facing roles and responsibilities, often being the main point of contact for client requests, escalations, comprehensive updates, and senior-level consultation
• Proven track record of deescalating project risks by working with members of your team and leadership to develop collaborative solutions
• Effective leadership of cross-discipline project teams - across account strategy, experience design, engineering, QA and support - keeping the team motivated and on task to deliver the best project outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills, both internally and externally