Hybrid Senior Project Manager

at Fast Horse

• Job title: Senior Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Minneapolis, United States

About the role

• Seasoned Project Manager overseeing integrated projects including design, digital content, and experiential activations at Fast Horse. Responsibilities include project management, client communication, and fostering team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Project work-flow management from project inception through final deliverables, including managing creative work flow and execution.
• Schedule and facilitate team meetings, including kick-offs, status meetings, and creative reviews, and determining and directing resulting action items.
• Timeline development and management.
• Ability to directly handle day-to-day client requests and communications.
• Immerse yourself in the workings of our disciplines, our process and become an expert on how integration can produce amazing work, and bring value to our clients and people.
• Working directly with our Integrated Teams Leads, coordinating and leveraging the support and expertise of a fully integrated team and all agency disciplines to ensure teams work efficiently.
• Partner with Integrated Team Leads on campaign SOWs, create and manage budgets, and ensure accurate expense tracking and client billing.
• Vendor sourcing, relationships and invoice management.
• Agency resource awareness and management.
• Work closely with all disciplines to ensure projects are completed on time and on budget.

Requirements

• Agency experience required.
• 5-12 years of day-to-day project management experience
• A service-focused approach, a bias toward action, and a proactive working style.
• Creative and flexible problem-solving ability that can be applied to almost any situation.
• Detail-oriented, extremely organized, and capable of managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to drive and work in an established but flexible process to achieve maximum efficiency and results.
• Possess excellent communication skills and understand the need for constant updates throughout the life of a project.
• An understanding of the need for both precision and flexibility and the ability to pivot quickly.
• Budgeting, negotiating, understanding the business of the business, and having established emotional intelligence to deal with people and issues of all varieties.
• A love for big ideas based on smart strategic insights and proven experience turning them into successful executions.
• Ability to keep teams both on task and highly motivated throughout the life of a project.
• An optimistic nature and “we can if…” attitude.
• Desire to be an active contributor to a culture and environment that fosters professional and personal growth for all employees.
• Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment where initiative is expected and rewarded.