Senior Project Manager (100% Remote)

Our Customer is a consumer financial services company headquartered in Connecticut. The company offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, installment lending to industries, and FDIC-insured consumer savings products through the consumer bank, its wholly owned online bank subsidiary.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager on a contract basis to support our customer’s ongoing business needs. This role is 100% remote.

This person will be responsible for managing projects for various retail clients.

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management leadership, oversight, and support across all project deliverables.
• Lead with a solution-focused approach to promote best practices and ensure project controls and processes are followed.
• Lead and manage large integrated digital creative projects from concept through delivery.
• Facilitate digital creative requirements gathering to ensure stakeholder needs are clearly understood.
• Participate in capacity planning across creative teams to provide visibility into utilization and bandwidth.
• Establish and maintain proactive risk management strategies throughout project execution.
• Encourage positive decision-making that considers partner and business needs.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with team members and key stakeholders.
• Partner with Account Directors and Account Managers to conduct portfolio business reviews with stakeholders.
• Collaborate on digital creative marketing recommendations, strategies, and action plans.
• Perform additional duties and special projects as assigned.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• In lieu of a degree, high school diploma/GED and 6 years of experience leading digital creative projects in an agency environment.
• 4+ years of project management experience.
• Experience with Workfront.
• Experience leading digital creative projects from conception through delivery.
• Experience managing and mentoring cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing resources within an advertising agency environment (external or in-house).
• Experience managing resume and/or email marketing projects.
• Experience gathering and documenting business and creative requirements.
• Experience with project planning, execution, capacity planning, and risk management.
• Strong leadership and team motivation skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to navigate complex organizations and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of digital creative workflows and processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience using project management software.
• Experience conducting portfolio reviews and stakeholder presentations.
• Experience developing digital creative marketing recommendations and strategies.
• Experience working with executive-level stakeholders.

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.