Contract Project Manager

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🏈 North America – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Advertising Production Resources (aka APR Consulting)

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Marketing • Advertising

Advertising Production Resources (APR Consulting) is a global leader in creative production consulting, offering innovative solutions for optimizing creative production processes. With a focus on reducing costs and increasing ROI, APR provides strategic insights and industry-leading knowledge to support major brands in their marketing efforts. Offering services like production consulting, data and analytics, and sustainability assessments, APR helps brands streamline operations, manage external partnerships, and uphold creative integrity. Their proprietary tool, ACERO™️, provides detailed data analytics for production expenditures, helping clients achieve significant savings and improved performance measurement. With over 150 team members and expertise across multiple disciplines, APR boasts an unmatched global presence in the field of advertising production consulting.

📋 Description

• Support the Client Solutions team to contribute to the financial health and success of the account portfolio • Manage staffing and labor on project schedules • Develop pricing and scope and ensure internal planning and delivery of project deliverables • Partner with Group Directors, Managing Advisors, and other stakeholders • Guide development, management, and delivery of scoped deliverables • Assess resource allocation and profitability • Influence internal processes and operational standards • Oversee account performance, including labor tracking, billing accuracy, risk management, and scope adherence • Ensure scopes, deliverables, and services remain aligned with business objectives • Conduct impact analyses for scope changes and recommend next steps • Manage client scopes of work, cost outs, contracts, and billing requirements • Facilitate retrospectives, document lessons learned, and refine portfolio management processes • Balance core responsibilities with supplemental client and internal engagements • Provide peer coverage and support overflow workloads • Track company capacity, personnel assignments, resource gaps, and future workloads • Resolve resource conflicts and optimize utilization across accounts • Support resource allocation, tracking, and prioritization • Track project or retainer actuals against SOW hours, deliverables, or project counts • Lead efforts to achieve project objectives and accurately scope task and project duration and difficulty • Ensure project tasks are completed within scope, time, budget, and quality constraints • Support end-to-end account workflow, time management, scope delivery, and risk prioritization • Anticipate problems and roadblocks, plan contingencies, and recommend solutions • Maintain process documentation, operational policies, production calendars, timelines, and reports • Schedule internal and client meetings and maintain documentation, file structures, and naming conventions • Manage team schedules, deadlines, reporting workflows, and client reporting calendars • Identify procedural improvements and engage others in implementing them • Build client relationships and attend client meetings • Measure performance against goals • Partner with Group Directors and Client Services on SOWs and staffing plans • Create and review project or retainer cost-outs and track actuals against budget • Review burn reports, monitor contribution margins, and recommend adjustments • Maintain detailed records of scope changes • Manage financial milestones and coordinate payment reconciliation with finance • Participate in monthly finance and billing reviews • Collaborate across teams, including global teams, and support operational excellence • Support company collaboration, archival, and financial tools and systems

🎯 Requirements

• 6-8 years experience as a Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, or similar in advertising/marketing industry • PMP Certification (Project Management Professional) or actively working to obtain certification desired • Proficiency in Google Workspace • Experience with Deltek Workbook or Deltek products is a plus • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) • Highly organized, detail-oriented, and adaptable • Calm and focused under pressure; assertive conflict-resolution and problem-solving skills • Effective decision-maker, even under tight deadlines • Demonstrates confidence, professionalism, and diplomacy • Capable of establishing strong relationships and gaining trust from peers • Positive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented • Embraces technology advancements and process changes • Future-focused and technologically adept • Good listener, takes feedback well, and addresses problems • Lead, motivate and inspire with compassion and vision • Must be willing to work on a project basis as an Independent Contractor