Freelance Senior, Project Manager
$135,200–$208,000 year
On-site · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Senior Freelance Project Manager accountable for overseeing multiple projects within an agency/consulting context, managing day-to-day communications, budgets, scope changes, risks, and client relationships across potentially multiple clients. Responsibilities include directing project plans and timelines, creating and reviewing client SOWs, coordinating with cross-functional teams (creative, engineering, analytics), maintaining financials and billing schedules, delivering status reports, and ensuring project deliverables align with client requirements and internal processes. The role requires strong collaboration with senior marketing, technical, and executive stakeholders, proficiency with project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, Slack, DoneDone, MS Office/Google Suite), and the ability to organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects and changing priorities. Some evenings and weekend work may be required.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in project management, advertising/marketing, or related field
- 5-7 years of demonstrated ability coordinating brand, marketing, campaign and digital projects, preferably in a consulting or agency environment
- Experience using project management methodology, including the ability to develop and track scopes of work, identify and resolve issues, mitigate risk, develop detailed task-based project plans and specifications, perform resource allocations, and lead team meetings
- 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 projects
- Experience managing deliverables against a media plan is a plus
- 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, email, project, and team communication software (e.g., Smartsheet, Jira, Slack, DoneDone)
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Strong team player; ability to assist with facilitating teams and clients
- 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; able to prioritize
- Adaptability, flexibility, persistence, versatility, and ability to handle multiple projects and changing priorities
- Ability to organize information, pay attention to detail, accurately follow procedures, maintain confidential information
- Ability to maintain self-motivation and to work independently and in collaborative environments
- Some evenings and weekend work may occasionally be required to meet deadlines
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