Senior Project Manager

Syneos Health; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GSW is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee multidisciplinary teams and drive campaigns from concept to completion. You will manage timelines, budgets, and client expectations while coordinating creative and planning staff across multiple channels.

Ideal candidates have strong project management skills, experience in advertising/marketing, and a proven ability to lead teams through complex workflows and tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• BS or BA (or relevant experience)
• 4+ years previous in advertising/marketing project management

Responsibilities

• Understand project scope and creative needs; track projects and problem solve
• Lead weekly status meetings and distribute updates
• Route deliverables through teams with coordinators
• Maintain process guidelines and motivate the team through timelines
• Collaborate with planners and resource managers to assign staff
• Use Wrike to write tasks with clear deliverables and resolve directives
• Capture next steps and deliverables in reports and recaps
• Identify risks related to budgets, resources, and timelines and escalate as needed
• Ensure client management stays aligned with creative teams during discussions

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Problem-solving

Organization

Education

BS/BA

Tools

MS Office

PM software

Job description

You know that the outcome of a project hinges on two things: the plan and the people.

You are the glue that holds these two together. You easily maneuver the precarious path of maintaining the strategy and pace of a project, while keeping your team engaged and enthusiastic. You know what needs to be done, and your penchant for strategic delegation and problem-solving makes you a natural fit for this Senior Project Manager position with GSW.

The Senior Project Manager manages multidisciplinary teams to task and oversees agency work across multichannel tactics. Sr Project managers are the glue that helps keep projects — and people — together. They are responsible for planning, organizing, managing and executing projects from beginning to end, ensuring they are completed effectively on time and on budget.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

(Duties may include, but not limited to all or some of the following)

• Has a thorough understanding and knowledge of what it takes creatively to develop projects (project steps, creative responsibilities and skills). Utilizes this knowledge in helping staff for projects, tracking projects, problem solving, etc.
• Creates/distributes team daily status/updates and pulls together key project groups as necessary. Runs weekly team status meetings
• Ensure that all pieces are properly routed and reviewed by team members with the help of Project Coordinators.
• Driver of internal agency process; ensuring team adheres to process guidelines, and problem-solving issues. Keeping teams committed, motivated, and productive through the duration of the project
• Partners with Project Planners to fully understand, and execute to established estimates and work plans
• Responsible for partnering with the resource managers and studio teams in assigning Creative team members to projects
• Working within the Wrike system, writes tasks providing clear direction on deliverables. Partners with the Creative Director and Project Planners to flag any concerns on directive and to resolve logistics.
• Accurately captures next steps, client deliverables, etc. through conference reports or meeting recaps and distributes to appropriate team members
• Play a central role in risk analysis. The Sr PM must be adept at identifying potential roadblocks related to budgets, resources and timelines. Leading discussions on issue resolutions and reporting these potential issues to leadership, when necessary
• Ensures that Client Management is communicating with Creative during client conversations and in preliminary discussions involving project ideas & direction and vice versa. Acts as the “glue” in project development
• Ensures that project directive and documentation have taken place to appropriate team members. This includes proactively communicating to other team members who are affected by the directive
• Helping to train new PMs as they are onboarded into the organization
• Other duties as needed to meet the needs of the team.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Education

• BS or BA (or relevant experience)
• 4+ years previous in advertising/marketing project management

Skills

• Project Management: Good at establishing clear directions; effective communicator; problem-solver; adaptable communication style; organized; understands job responsibilities of others and functions appropriately
• Technical Expertise: MS Office Suite; Experience with Project Management software (nice to have)

At GSW, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

GSW is a full-service healthcare communications agency that goes beyond advertising to create personalized brand experiences that involve, inspire, educate and activate people through ongoing brand journeys. As one of the world's ten most-awarded healthcare advertising agencies, GSW is hell-bent not to replace the same old with the same old. This is achieved through a provocative premise — if other brands communicated the way healthcare brands do, how many customers would they have? GSW turns against this premise through discovery of beneath-the-surface customer insights that we impact with stories, simplicity and authenticity.

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