Harrison and Star

Senior Project Manager

Harrison and Star$100K — $120K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience in project management or operations within an applicable environment.
  • Expert knowledge of traditional and non-traditional media including digital and social activations.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage integrated projects and lead strategic conversations with senior leadership.
  • Strong negotiation and conflict management skills essential for client interactions.
  • Proven leadership experience with a focus on team motivation and analytics in decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Business Leadership to manage comprehensive programs across multiple channels.
  • Act as the primary client engagement point, ensuring growth and profitability goals are met.
  • Manage internal communications and deliverables to ensure project alignment.
  • Develop resource needs assessments across accounts in collaboration with resource management teams.
  • Lead annual scope development and maintain ongoing oversight of client scope and progress.
  • Identify and propose scope opportunities to enhance client deliverables.
  • Mentor and lead mid to junior team members to foster growth within the agency.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid work environment with three days in-office per week.
  • Opportunity to contribute significantly to high-profile and large-scale client engagements.
  • Access to a supportive team culture that values diverse contributions beyond job descriptions.
Full Job Description
Agency:
McCann

Job Function:
Projects and Performance Improvement

Job Subfunction:
Project and Program Management

Job Description:

The 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 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 and Finance, ensure ongoing monitoring of 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
• Lead annual scope development process, in partnership with business leadership, finance, resourcing and department leadership
• 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
• Leader, 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 an 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, integratedprojects
• 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 $100,000 - $120,000. 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 wi

th the company(applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

100K-130K

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
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