Senior Project Manager

McCANN New York; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading marketing agency in New York is seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage key projects for significant businesses. You will collaborate with discipline leads and ensure high-quality delivery while driving growth and profit goals. The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of project management experience and a strong ability to lead and motivate teams. This position offers a hybrid work model with three days in-office and a salary range of $100,000 to $115,000.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience managing large-scale, integrated projects.
• Expert knowledge of various mediums, including social and digital.
• Strong team-leading skills and the ability to motivate others.

Responsibilities

• Manage key projects/programs for significant businesses.
• Drive growth and profit goals as a client-facing partner.
• Lead the annual scope development process.
• Ensure high-quality delivery and efficiency.

Skills

Project management

Production experience

Team leadership

Analytical mindset

Negotiation skills

Conflict management

Job description

Reporting into: Project Management Director

Location: New York, NY

The Role:

As a Senior Project Manager at McCann New York, you will manage key project/programs for significant businesses and partner with discipline leads across multiple channels. You will scope, resource, and manage projects from beginning to end, ensuring high‑quality delivery and maximizing efficiency.

What You Do:

• Partner closely with Business Leadership and discipline leads to manage the overall program(s) for the year across multiple channels, managing multiple agency partners.
• Act as a client‑facing partner to Business Leadership and discipline leads, driving growth and profit goals and advocating the importance of healthy and measurable ways of working.
• Responsible for all internal communications and day‑to‑day deliverable management for account(s).
• Be a partner to the broader agency team, delivering growth and profit goals on a project‑by‑project basis.
• In partnership with the Business Leads and Finance, ensure ongoing monitoring of agreed‑upon client scope of work, projecting burn rates by client, and regular reviews of scope tracking and progress.
• Identify incremental scope opportunities, develop proposals in partnership with ADPM, and track scope progress.
• Lead the annual scope development process, in partnership with business leadership, finance, resourcing, and department leadership.
• Work to define resource needs across the account with the individual resource management teams in each department.
• Oversee account workflow and establish client‑specific processes to ensure efficiencies and the highest quality of deliverables.
• Identify best practices and develop new systems, processes, and tools for complex integrated client work.
• Ensure consistent use of tools across all clients and functional teams, supporting the deployment and adoption of enabling tools approved by McCann New York and McCann Worldgroup.
• Lead, mentor, and guide mid and junior‑level team members.

What You Bring:

• Project management, production, product management, or operations experience within an applicable environment, with demonstrated experience directing a variety of integrated projects.
• Expert knowledge of all mediums, including social activations and digital deliverables, capabilities, and processes.
• Advanced experience with scope management and staff plan creation; ability to spearhead and confidently lead strategic conversations with senior agency leadership pertaining to staffing and scoping recommendations.
• Ability to partner with Account Leadership team members and solve strategic, account‑level opportunities.
• Strong team‑leading skills, motivating work ethic, and analytical mindset.
• Ability to work directly with clients and inform them on business process and health.
• Experience in negotiation and conflict management.
• Ability to adapt in a fast‑paced environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively in high‑pressure situations.
• 3–5 years of experience managing large‑scale, integrated projects.
• A strong ability to mobilize teams to meet common goals.

McCann New York team members must reside in or be willing to relocate to the New York Tri‑State area unless otherwise agreed upon by their manager and McCann New York’s Human Resources team. McCann New York is a hybrid workplace with three days in‑office per week.

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $115,000. Salary ranges depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; the associated discipline market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.