Senior Project Manager

TBWA\\Worldwide; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

TBWA in Chicago is seeking a Sr. Project Manager to serve as flight control for delivering work on time, within budget, and within scope for the US Army client, coordinating across multi‑discipline teams.

You will lead multi‑disciplinary teams, drive project integration, scope management, scheduling, cost control, quality, and risk mitigation, and report progress to stakeholders while upholding agency processes and best practices.

Qualifications

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to break down complex information for diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams and projects.

Responsibilities

• Project Integration Management: coordinate multi‑agency and multi‑discipline work and ensure process adherence.
• Project Scope Management: prevent scope creep and assess impacts of changes.
• Project Schedule Management: develop and manage timelines and deliverables.
• Project Cost Management: track budgets, hours, and client billing.
• Project Quality Management: enable documentation, reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Project Risk Management: identify, assess, and mitigate risks with proactive plans.
• Project Communication Management: ensure involvement of appropriate teams and open communication.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Resilience

Job description

Agency

TBWA

Job Function

Projects and Performance Improvement

Job Subfunction

Project and Program Management

Job Description

Title: Sr. Project Manager

Reports to: Director of Project Management

Client: US Army

THE ROLE

At TBWA, our Sr. Project Managers are the lead of flight control for getting our work completed on time, on budget, and within scope. Our Sr. Project Managers are the hub that drives all work through our processes. The Project Management team sets the bar for problem solving and decisiveness across the agency team and functional groups to effectively lead the team to the best outcome for our clients.

What You’ll Do

Project Integration Management

• Keen understanding of integrating multi-agency and -discipline team across a project.
• Responsible for project communications and process adherence across multi-agency and -discipline teams.

Project Scope Management

• Responsible for understanding project scope and preventing scope creep.
• Identify shifts in timing, deliverables, budgets, and resources while communicating potential impacts.
• Provides support to Project Management Director and PMO on scope development, proposal structure, and staffing recommendations.

Project Schedule Management

• Develop and manage project timelines based on hour needed to complete the deliverables required.
• Able to break project down into small pieces (stages) and understand the deliverables at each stage.

Project Cost Management

• Determine and manage project burn reporting with finance team including tracking, mitigating, and reporting on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Partner with finance, account, creative, and production teams to ensure weekly and monthly tracking of budget and hours is accurate and within scope.
• Ensure client billing is accurate by tracking, reporting, evaluating, and controlling projects.
• Strong understanding of agency finance processes encouraged.

Project Quality Management

• Working with Account Management lead, ensure process, documentation, reporting, and other enhancements are enacted as needed to ensure client satisfaction and optimal product delivery.
• Capture lessons learned throughout a project and apply to future projects, as well as develop and implement plans for best practice enhancements and improvements.
• Develop metrics and operational process to ensure quality control.
• Project Resource Management
• Engage and manage appropriate talent and resource allocation at all project stages.
• Demonstrate strategic thinking for resourcing all projects.

Project Risk Management

• Manage and communicate with risk management tools daily. Manage moderate to high risk/complexity projects.
• Ability to perform qualitative and quantitative risk management with skill and confidence. Ability to accurately articulate risk management/mitigation plans and escalating high risk issues with management.
• Define, manage, and mitigate risks, including taking a proactive, approach to solve issues before they arise or manage as they come up.

Project Communication Management

• Ensure involvement of the appropriate teams during each project phase.
• Drive open and honest communications across all teams to ensure no roadblocks in projects.

What We’re Looking For

• High self-confidence and not afraid to be a project management leader in the room.
• Ability to maintain focus under pressure, be thorough, and keep a positive attitude. Ability to think outside the box and understand the outcome, not just the process.
• Extremely high standards for work and behavior; accountable, reliable, and dependable. Acute attention to detail and accuracy.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to break down complex information.

$95,000 - $111,000k

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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$95,000 - $111,000k