Hybrid Project Manager

at Edelman

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

About the role

• Project Manager focusing on integrated project management at Edelman, delivering exceptional work and collaborating across various teams.

Responsibilities

• Edelman Project Managers will apply day-to-day project management, financial management and team facilitation skills to the delivery of projects, while demonstrating an understanding client business goals. They support senior project Managers to track project deliverables that connect with creative intent, while meeting time specifications and achieve quality standards.
• Develop business acumen by assisting in defining scopes and building estimates in partnership with Senior Project Managers or Project Directors, account leads and specialty teams.
• Track the development and approvals of Statements of Work with Finance, Contracts and Account teams.
• Use project management tools to author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates, budgets and other relevant project documentation with input from team members and oversight from a Senior Project Manager or Project Director.
• Support the delivery of larger projects and/or own smaller projects with oversight.
• Anticipate the needs of your projects, resolving project issues and removing barriers to success for the team.
• With oversight from the Senior Project Manager or Project Director, pull and report on project burn, identify and flag scope creep, and participate in the monthly forecasting process.
• Proactively communicate and manage hours, tasks and timelines with integrated team members in order to successfully keep work moving forward within established time and budget constraints.
• Schedule and attend internal meetings, communicate next steps, and assign ownership of tasks; attend client meetings to understand client feedback, next steps and project implications.
• Partner with Resource Management to manage staff plans and project future staffing requirements in established resource management tool.
• Oversee, manage and communicate the status of deliverables across multiple integrated workstreams.
• Ensure the quality and consistency across all projects is consistent with brand guidelines.
• Collaborate with account and specialty teams to ensure successful delivery against client assignment and scoped deliverables.
• Balance a sense of urgency with calm and confidence at all times.

Requirements

• A 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
• 4-5 years of project management, integrated marketing/PR agency, or related experience
• Strong passion for and demonstrated knowledge in project management and integrated programming
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Smartsheet (or other similar project management tool) is required.

Benefits

• We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.