Senior Creative Project Manager (100% remote)

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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.

Responsibilities:

• Provides project management thought-leadership, oversight and support on all project deliverables.
• Leads with a solution-focused approach to encourage and justify best practice, and ensure process and project controls are followed unless there is adequate justification for an exception.
• Leads and manages large integrated projects throughout all stages of digital creative deliverable execution, from conception to delivery.
• Facilitates digital creative requirements gathering to ensure stakeholder needs are clearly understood, in line with defined processes.
• Participates in capacity planning across creative teams to provide a clear view of utilization and bandwidth.
• Establishes a strategy of continuous risk management that enables proactive decisions and actions throughout a project’s execution.
• Encourages positive thinking and considers key partner and business needs in decision making.
• Builds and encourages strong relationships with team members and key partners.
• Partners with Account Directors and Account Managers to manage regular portfolio business reviews with key stakeholders.
• Collaborates on preparation of digital creative marketing recommendations, strategies and actions for partners.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree. In lieu of degree, HS Diploma/GED and 6 years of experience leading digital creative projects in an agency environment.
• 4+ years of project management experience.
• 4+ years working with cross functional team members experience.
• 2+ years of client experience, 2 years of paid media experience, would like to have some kind of Workfront experience.
• Experience managing and mentoring cross-functional team members with high integrity and ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team toward a common goal.
• Experience leading digital creative projects and managing resources for an advertising agency (either external or in-house agencies).

Desired Characteristics:

• Understanding of the digital creative process and how to balance with project management and workflow.
• Experience navigating large and complex organizations, including gaining access to key executives and stakeholders and successfully managing relationship building dynamics and processes.
• Conflict resolution and problem-solving skills.
• 3+ years experience using Project Management Software (Workfront preferred).

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.