Project Manager - Freelance

Burrell Communications; United States; On-site; USD 171,924,000 - 214,906,000; Full time

Job summary

Burrell Communications Group is seeking a Freelance Project Manager to serve as the strategic operational partner for planning, management, and execution of marketing campaigns. This remote, U.S.-based role runs from October 19, 2026 through December 31, 2026, with a 40-hour workweek and a weekly rate of $60-$75 depending on experience.

The role requires coordinating across cross-functional teams, managing timelines, budgets, and deliverables, and maintaining effective communication with clients

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, and/or related field(s).
• 5+ years of client-facing experience managing large-scale, complex projects with tight timelines, delivering results.
• Experience contributing to national marketing campaigns across channels (broadcast, print, digital, social, experiential).
• Ability to develop and communicate workflow charts aligned with marketing objectives, strategies, and tactics.
• Experience in fast-paced B2C environments, preferably retail, CPG, and digital sectors, to drive growth and efficiencies.
• Strong leadership and relationship-building skills at all levels of an organization.

Responsibilities

• Drives project scope and workflow momentum across teams.
• Coordinates resources, timelines, and budgets for campaigns and projects.
• Defines scope, goals, and performance metrics with account leads.
• Maintains project status, timelines, deliverables, and budgets for clarity and consistency.
• Assigns tasks and responsibilities across departments and tracks progress.
• Manages client and internal expectations, communicating changes promptly.
• Leads internal meetings to ensure structured, synchronized delivery.
• Monitors scope health through utilization, budgets, and efficiencies.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project scheduling

Stakeholder management

Budget tracking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Tools

MS Project / Asana

Job description

Brief Description

BURRELL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

Founded in 1971, Burrell Communications Group, or Burrell for short, is a collective of the creatively curious. Everything we do is centered around researching, amplifying, and celebrating culture, all over the world. We always embrace the responsibility of telling the stories that define communities. We are an engine for insatiable ambition, creative audacity, and cultural integrity - moving at light speed towards the future we've always dreamed of, powered by the people.

At Burrell, we know our work is stronger when it reflects the brilliance of different backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome candidates of all identities to bring their creativity and passion to the team.

Position Summary

Project Managers at Burrell function as the strategic operational partner for driving projects and workflow organization-wide. You'll work closely with cross-disciplinary teams on the planning, management, and execution of scopes and campaign projects. You'll serve as a liaison and contact for identifying and coordinating all resources necessary to complete all marketing activities and programs with efficiencies in timing, budget and workflows.

Burrell's Freelance Project Manager is a temporary, full-time contract role anticipated to run from October 19, 2026 through December 31, 2026. The position requires 40 hours per week and offers a weekly rate equivalent to $60-$75 per hour, based on experience. This is a fully remote, U.S.-based role. To support effective collaboration across teams, departments, and clients, Burrell employees are expected to maintain regular working hours of 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM CST, Monday through Friday.

Essential Functions

• Brings structure to workflow and drives forward momentum on scopes and projects
• Identifies ways to improve operational efficiency and connects the dots across teams, timelines and systems
• Partners with account leads to define and understand campaign/project scope, goals, and performance metrics
• Develops, manages, and updates project status, workflows, timelines, deliverables, and budgets to ensure clarity and consistency in entity deliverables and timelines
• Works with department leads to assign tasks, responsibilities, and deliverables for all campaigns and projects
• Manages client and internal teams' expectations and timelines while communicating changes/dependencies promptly to internal and external team members
• Drives teams to move in sync to final delivery and leads internal project meetings/touchpoints to ensure there's structure, clarity and continuity to workflow
• Balances health of a scope or project by evaluating utilization, budgets and operational efficiencies

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, and/or related field(s)
• 5+ years of related, client-facing industry experience managing and facilitating large-scale, complex projects to meet sometimes aggressive timelines
• Experience in contributing to and executing national marketing campaigns across various channels (broadcast, print, digital, social, experiential, etc)
• Must be able to effectively develop and communicate workflow charts that align with overarching marketing objectives, strategies, and tactics
• Experience in managing efficient and high-performance-driven project management processes in a fast-paced B2C environment, preferably in retail, CPG, and digital sectors, to drive business growth and improved efficiencies
• Strong leadership and client/internal relationship-building skills at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated capability to manage complex projects and achieve results promptly and within budget
• Proven ability to influence the efficiency and quality of work, delivering a stronger performance and contributing to a stronger client relationship
• Proven success in managing, collaborating, and working with both internal and external cross-functional teams to deliver continuous business performance improvement
• Demonstrate excellent writing and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate and present presentations