Senior Project Manager (Freelance) Job at Publicis Media, Philadelphia, PA

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  • Publicis Media
  • Philadelphia, PA

Job Description

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world's largest healthcare communications network,

Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world's third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

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Job Description

The Senior PM leads the production of multi-channel projects of large size or complexity, and is ultimately responsible for the delivery of high quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. Career manages at least one person.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
  • PM Technical Skills: Proficient in project managing via a flexible approach. Well-versed in production needs; considered an expert in at least one channel (interactive/digital, print, or video) but understands other mediums well enough to be a strategic problem solver
  • SOWs: Prepares complex statements of work, with quick turnaround time and minimal revisions. Creates or reviews statement of work documentation; accountable for top-down and bottom-up budgets to ensure scopes accurately reflect required work effort
  • Client finances: Accurately calculates cost-to-complete estimates
  • Thought process: Regularly demonstrates critical thinking skills
  • Technology: Continuously learning technology and ability to quickly adapt to new technologies
  • Agency process: Advocate and champion of agency processes. Able to define team process, communication plan and rules of engagement and manages team adherence
Strategy
  • Creativity: Finds creative alternative solutions to resource and time constraints
  • Project Plans: Creates and manages master project plans and timelines via a cross-capability collaborative approach
  • Quality Control: Ensures team adherence to QC plan
  • Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies. Identifies opportunities to streamline processes and to create efficiencies and suggests alternative solutions
  • Trouble shoot: Solution oriented. Brings problems with potential solutions to the attention of management.
  • Conflict resolution: Arbitrates team conflicts and facilitates cross-capability solutions
  • Resource allocation: Leads resource allocation discussions on the project-level with cross-capability team
  • Collaboration: Keeps team informed of changes. Communicates clearly and frequently. Leads team communication plan; monitors and adjusts as needed to ensure effective and efficient communication.
  • Project risk: Actively mitigates risk by identifying quality, budget, and timeline impacts
Tactics and Execution
  • Finances: Responsible for cost management across portfolio of projects. Provides accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects
  • Conflict resolution: Proactively contributes to conflict resolution across channels
  • Resources: Leads resource planning
  • Vendors: Manages 3rd party vendor engagement
  • Execution: Manages production of engagements from award to completion
  • Change process: Manages change request process, identifying and documenting changes in scope
  • Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Positive influence within department. Develops strong and positive working relationships with other departments/ stakeholders
  • Management: Mentors and directs the activity of one or more Associates or Senior Associates
  • Culture: Promotes and contributes to business unit's culture and environment
  • On-boarding: On boards new team members to the brand/ agency process
Client Relationship
  • Problem solving: Confident problem solver; willing and able to have difficult conversations
  • Relationship: Engages with client procurement staff. Builds rapport and credibility with client peer based on trust and expert counsel
  • Client process: Has intimate understanding of client processes and priorities
  • Managing expectations: Ensures that appropriate client and internal stakeholder expectations are managed
  • Communication and Writing: Lead role in ensuring timely, accurate client documentation and correspondence. Presents complex data or messages in a clear, succinct, compelling manner
  • Ensures production deliverables meet client requirements

Qualifications

Requirements
  • Professional presentation and client facing skills
  • Effective negotiation and conflict management skills
  • Advanced in Microsoft Office
  • Proficient in Microsoft Project
  • Knowledge of digital required
  • Knowledge of healthcare is a strong plus
  • Exhibits Integrity and Trust
  • Exhibits Self Development
Education and Experience
  • Bachelors degree required
  • Demonstrates progression in level of responsibility within a professional project management environment
  • Agency or digital project experience preferred
  • Experience in communications or marketing environment preferred

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

Compensation Range: $36.08 - $51.84 hourly. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 05/16/2026.

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Job Tags

Hourly pay, Contract work, Temporary work, Work at office, Flexible hours, Shift work

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