Manage project execution and deliverables, assist senior project managers, track schedules and budgets, communicate with teams, and ensure quality across projects.
Edelman is a voice synonymous with trust, reimagining a future where the currency of communication is action. Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum.
At Edelman, we understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities. We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.
The Edelman Project Management team is passionate about finding smart ways to deliver great work. We sit at the center of our business, collaborating with best-in-class teams to ensure Edelman ideas make an impact in our clients’ real worlds. From cars to consumer goods, fashion and retail, financial services, food and beverage, luxury, technology, or healthcare, we are fanatics about integrated project management that enables our creative, strategy, and account teams to deliver smart and brilliant programming for our clients. This is an exciting opportunity for a process-oriented, go-getter who wants to become a key part of a forward-thinking, integrated team. We want passion and excitement. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm, and is eager to learn from the best in the business. Our Project Managers have tireless enthusiasm, the drive to ensure flawless execution, and the motivation to up-level their knowledge and skills within the Project Management craft.
About Your Day-to-Day:
- 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 of client business goals. They support senior Project Managers to track project deliverables that align with creative intent, meet 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 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 tools.
- 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 assignments and scoped deliverables.
- Balance a sense of urgency with calm and confidence at all times.
About Your Background:
- A 4-year degree or equivalent work experience
- 3-4 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.
- A multi-tasker, with the ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
- A detail-oriented mindset, with a knack for creative and head-on problem-solving
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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.
Top Skills
Microsoft Office Suite
Project Management Tools
Smartsheet
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