Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Reporting into: Associate Director of Project Management

Location: New York, NY

Your Role:

As a Senior Project Manager at McCann New York, you will manage key project/programs for significant businesses. A key partner to discipline leads with the ability to manage across multiple channels, ensuring each account and project is scoped, resourced, and managed from beginning to end.

This role will require hands-on experience across traditional and non-traditional media, as well as a flexible approach with the ability to adapt and change as needed. We are looking for a project leader that is passionate about creating world-class campaigns, programs, and experiences for large-scale client engagements while also bringing a fresh perspective to the agency to develop revolutionary creative work.

The Project Management Department strives to be a cornerstone of the agency’s operations. Through a cross-discipline, consistent, and rigorous approach from client input brief to scoping through delivery to billing, job closure, and asset storage, and the resulting project-driven P&L goals. As Senior Project Manager, you are responsible for ensuring that projects overcome obstacles by proposing solutions that always strive to improve the work, provide best-in-class client delivery, and maximize 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 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 project-by-project basis
• In partnership with the Business Leads, ensure ongoing monitoring of scope, tracking against agreed-upon client scope of work, projecting burn rates by client, and regular reviews of scope tracking and progress
• Identifying incremental scope opportunities, developing proposals in partnership with ADPM and tracking scope progress
• Work to define resource needs across account with the individual resource management teams in each department
• Oversee account workflow and establish client-specific processes to ensure efficiencies and highest quality of deliverables
• Identify best practices and develop new systems, processes and tools for complex integrated client work
• Ensuring 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
• Leader and mentor to mid- and junior-level team members

What You Bring:

• Project management, production, product management, or operations experience within an applicable environment; demonstrated experience directing a variety of integrated projects
• Possess 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
• Partner to Account Leadership team members with ability to solve strategic, account level opportunities
• Strong team leader with a motivating work ethic and analytical mindset
• Ability to work directly with clients and inform on business process and health
• Experience in negotiation and conflict management skills
• 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

At McCann New York, each team member plays a significant role in our success. We recognize that our team members' contributions may extend beyond this job description. The job description is designed to outline primary responsibilities, qualifications, and role scope. It does not restrict team members or the organization to only those specified duties.

Location:

McCann New York team members must reside in or be willing to relocate to the New York Tristate 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.

Salary Range:

The salary range for this position is $95,000 to $115,000 USD. 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.

How We Uphold McCann Values:

• Bravery: We embrace innovation and take thoughtful risks to drive bold ideas forward.
• We approach challenges with courage, resilience, and an openness to new ideas. We encourage respectfully pushing boundaries, thinking outside the box, and proposing bold, innovative solutions, even if they come with some risk. Being brave also means standing up for what we believe in, respectfully challenging the status quo when necessary, and speaking up for others.
• Integrity: We are honest, transparent, and hold ourselves accountable in all that we do.
• We consistently follow through on commitments, speak up when something feels off, and communicate openly, even when it’s challenging. We take responsibility for our actions and decisions, are willing to admit mistakes, and are always aiming to do the right thing. By exemplifying integrity, we build trust within our teams and with our Clients, laying a foundation of reliability and respect across all our interactions.
• Generosity: We create a collaborative, inclusive environment by supporting, celebrating, and uplifting each other with kindness, compassion, and empathy.
• We go above and beyond for others, showing kindness and giving time and resources to help our colleagues succeed. This includes sharing knowledge, mentoring, and being a resource for others, as well as celebrating others’ accomplishments and contributions. We believe in creating a collaborative and supportive environment where we lift each other up. Generosity also means being inclusive, welcoming diverse perspectives, and showing empathy for others’ experiences and challenges.

How We Care for McCanners:

• Competitive insurance coverage, inclusive of medical, dental, and vision
• Time Well Taken: paid time off to take personal/vacation time off away from work as you deem consistent with your duties, the Company’s needs and its obligations
• 80 hours of Paid Sick Time per calendar year
• 21 paid Company Holidays
• Access to Spark, a learning and skill platform for your growth and development
• 401k Retirement with 6% employer matching
• Maternity, Adoption and Parental Leave ranging from 12 to 16 weeks
• Wellness resources, including free access to Headspace

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

The strength of our creative capability and innovative thinking has led to some of the world's most celebrated, effective, game-changing work for top brands. Maximizing that strength means bringing together an extensive mix of socially, culturally, and cognitively diverse talent — and creating conditions where they feel empowered to boldly share the fullest expression of their unique worldview. We fiercely believe in the power of creativity and innovation to positively influence society and inspire greater equity and inclusion within the communities we serve. So, every day we deliberately and intentionally choose to embody our global philosophy of Conscious Inclusion and, in turn, fuel our mission to help brands earn a meaningful role in people's lives.