FREELANCE Senior Program Manager

Job Description

CoLab Publicis Health is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join a robust team who are leading our clients to new innovations. The ideal candidate is a project management expert, mentor, and advocate. They are a trusted partner able to align internal teams with a mutual understanding of all deliverables and drive them to execution. The Senior Project Manager will understand agency work products to oversee a team delivering work for at least one significant client book of business. They will partner with other departments to resolve project-level issues and advocate for process improvements. The Senior Project Manager’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Act as the project lead across projects and be ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics

Define project scope, draft statements of work (SOWs), create staff plans, estimate budgets, and produce timelines that align to client and business needs

Interface heavily with marketing, technical, and creative senior leads to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the customer's business requirements

Manage the execution of work, which includes tracking team progress, routing deliverables for approval, monitoring scope, and analyzing financial performance

Actively monitor project risks/issues, escalate in a timely manner, and drive teams to effective solutions

Be responsible for the accurate financial management of the portfolio of projects to which they are assigned

In addition to the project responsibilities, may support pre-sales planning and scoping activities