Project Manager Business Development

Salt Digital Recruitment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt Digital Recruitment is seeking a highly organized Project Manager based in New York, NY. This role focuses on managing pitches and proposals, ensuring seamless project delivery with attention to detail.

The ideal candidate will have over six years of project management or agency experience with excellent organizational skills, comfortable in a collaborative environment. Responsibilities include developing strategic documents and managing internal stakeholders to support growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in project management, business development, or agency operations.
• Experience with pitches, proposals, and RFPs.
• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management of proposals and pitches.
• Develop timelines and manage stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate strategic documents and client-facing proposals.

Skills

Project management

Business development

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Job description

Overview

Our client is seeking a highly organized and proactive Project Manager to support and drive the agency's growth and new business initiatives. This individual will play a critical role in managing pitches, proposals, presentations, and RFP responses from kickoff through submission, ensuring projects are delivered seamlessly, on time, and with exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end project management of pitches, proposals, presentations, RFPs, and new business opportunities from kickoff through final submission.
• Develop and manage timelines, workbacks, deliverables, approvals, and stakeholder communications to ensure all opportunities progress efficiently.
• Coordinate the development of strategic documents, presentations, pitch materials, and client-facing proposals, ensuring a high standard of quality, consistency, and professionalism.
• Partner closely with agency leadership to support and advance broader growth and business development initiatives.
• Align and manage internal stakeholders across strategy, creative, account management, production, marketing, and leadership teams (Cross-Functional Coordination).
• Facilitate communication, follow-ups, and decision-making processes to keep projects moving forward and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and dependencies while driving solutions to maintain momentum.
• Support agency brand-building efforts through the coordination of industry events, speaking engagements, awards submissions, partnerships, and marketing initiatives (Agency Marketing & Visibility).
• Help strengthen the agency's market presence by ensuring visibility opportunities are effectively planned and executed.
• Conduct and maintain prospect, market, and competitive intelligence to support strategic positioning and business development efforts (Research & Growth Operations).
• Improve operational processes, documentation, and workflows within the growth function to enhance scalability, efficiency, and consistency.
• Organize and maintain critical business development information and resources to support ongoing growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in project management, business development, growth, account management, marketing, or agency operations within a creative, digital, branding, communications, PR, or marketing agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting agency new business efforts, including pitches, proposals, presentations, and RFP responses.
• Exceptional project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and competing deadlines.
• Strong written communication skills and experience developing or coordinating client-facing materials, presentations, proposals, and strategic documents.
• Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
• Highly proactive, detail-oriented, and solutions-focused with excellent follow-through and judgment.
• Comfortable working independently while partnering closely with senior leadership on high-visibility initiatives.
• Strong interest in agency growth, marketing, branding, industry trends, and business development.
• Experience supporting awards programs, speaking engagements, events, partnerships, or agency marketing initiatives is considered an asset.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.