Senior Project Manager - Contract

Walker Sands is an integrated B2B marketing agency that partners with technology and services companies to drive meaningful business results. The Senior Project Manager will manage a portfolio of accounts and cross-functional projects on a six-month contract, overseeing planning, execution, budgets, communication, and process improvement while supporting client outcomes and mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities:

• Develop timelines, collaboratively staff resources with service team leads and lead kickoff meetings
• Lead internal project kickoff meetings to ensure internal alignment to scope and client outcomes
• Anticipate risks during project planning and proactively propose ways to mitigate those risks
• Oversee project execution with cross-functional teams while ensuring alignment to scope, timeline, and budget
• Conduct QC/QA checks and alignment of deliverables to client outcomes and program scope
• Lead internal status meetings and provide clear project updates to the team
• Monitor budgets and team utilization to ensure profitability and resource availability
• Lead effort to resolve complex challenges related to scope, resource constraints, or timeline risks
• Act as a primary point of contact for internal team, providing guidance and removing internal roadblocks
• Promote seamless communication between internal team, account management, and client to ensure alignment on outcomes and deliverables
• Serve as a secondary point of contact for clients and participate in client meetings to speak to project status
• Activate action items to keep projects on track
• Provide feedback on project workflows and identify processes to improve
• Ensure all project assets are organized on Google Drive and accessible to project teams
• Contribute to department and agency process improvement

Requirements:

• Experience: 4+ years of project management experience in a marketing or agency environment with exposure to creative, strategy, and digital marketing projects types and deliverables
• Tools: Experience with Project Management tools like Trello, and familiarity with digital marketing platforms that support marketing automation and paid media like Hubspot, Pardot, Google Analytics, etc
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies, and project reporting metrics like hours tracking, budget management, and timeline management
• Scope: Experience with managing up to 15 projects or clients at a time, with the ability to shift priorities based on client and internal feedback