Project Manager

A Project Manager leads the day-to-day workflow of integrated projects and teams – but for business processes, not client projects. They provide a point of integration between Client Leads, and Finance, Resource Management and Operations, they manage business priorities, team structures and resourcing, billings and scheduling across the business unit. They collaborate with Account and Specialty peers to ensure that project deliverables connect with business basics as well as creative intent, while meeting time specifications and budget parameters. 

This role sits at the center of our business, collaborating with business leads and best-in-class teams to ensure Edelman ideas make an impact in our clients 'worlds while also delivering on our own business goals – we are fanatics about integrated project management and collaboration across departments, providing a specialist support to our business leads so that they can focus on delivering creative impact, strategic counsel and excellence of delivery 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 – someone who enjoys talking business planning and using data and insights to help drive decision-making. We want passion and excitement, but also structure and conviction of thought. We want someone who is unafraid to ask questions, is willing to challenge the norm and is eager to be the best in the business. And we also want an analytical mindset. 

Our Project Managers are fluent in budget management, scoping of work, resourcing of teams and setting clients up for success. They have the experience to lead the day-to-day work on integrated areas of the business, the 

drive to ensure flawless execution, and the ability to influence teams to achieve great work within the boundaries of 

scope, time and budget. They are comfortable being the interface between different departments such as Finance, Resource Management, Operations and Client Service. 

About Your Day-to-Day:

• Demonstrate business acumen by producing top-down and bottom-up estimates, and leading definition of scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams, utilizing appropriate tools. 
• Execute the development and approval workflow of Scopes of Work and contracts with the business leads.
• Through the use of established project management tools, author and maintain project schedules, project briefs, cost estimates and project financial management (OOP & fee) and other relevant project documentation with input from cross-discipline teams. 
• Own the management of integration between key business functions with minimal supervision. 
• Provide analysis of business data and convert that to useful insights for business leads to apply in real-time. 
• Work with the business leads to resolve project-related issues, escalating project blockers and risks.
• Partner with Finance and Account teams to manage and communicate project burn, raise scope creep, share budget reporting, and participate in the monthly forecasting process. 
• Partner with Resource Management to establish staff plans, providing clarity that aligns specialty team needs with project future staffing requirements in order to identify the best talent for the work. 
• Assist with coordination of new business briefs as requested by the business lead. 
• Ensure the consistency across all projects is consistent with business processes. 

About Your Background:

• A relevant degree or diploma in PR, communications or project management 
• 5-10 Years’ experience in the PR/communications industry 
• 1-3 years’ project management or relevant experience in a PR/communications agency 
• Mastery of PM fundamentals and best practices 
• Fluency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is required 
• Experienced working with data and analytics for a business 

About You:

• An experienced individual in the PR/communications industry who is keen to shift focus to business process and efficiencies 
• A process-orientated individual with a respect for business structure and organization 
• A self-reliant multi-tasker, with the ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment 
• A strategic mindset, with a knack for creative and head-on problem solving 
• An ability to stay focused on the brief for the role, and not get distracted by the requests of others 
• A bias for action and the ability to confidently manage projects through ambiguity 
• A “get things done” and positive mentality 
• An analytical mindset – someone who can turn data into useful insights and recommendations 
• A strong and fearless communicator, both verbally and in writing 

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

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