Project Manager

We manage several hundred million in annual media spend for national brands. Timesheets are due daily, broken out by client and task.

About the role

We use Smartsheet for schedules and Jira for the technical work. MS Project experience is fine too. Scott Marketing has a small PMO. You will own schedules, budgets, risks and status reporting for your projects. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll be doing

• Close projects with lessons learned and a clean handoff to operations.
• Coordinate work across IT, operations, finance and vendors.
• Manage project budgets and forecast spend to completion.
• Plan and support go-lives, including cutover and rollback steps.
• Track risks, issues and decisions in an RAID log.
• Build and maintain project plans in Smartsheet or MS Project.
• Keep project documentation organised in SharePoint or Confluence.
• Run weekly status meetings and send clear notes with owners and dates.

What you need

• Strong written status reporting.
• Experience managing budgets and multiple projects at once.
• Proficient in Smartsheet, MS Project or a similar tool.
• Working knowledge of waterfall and Agile methods.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Comfortable running meetings with senior stakeholders.
• Organised, with a habit of following up.

Preferred qualifications

• PMP or CAPM certification.
• Change management training such as Prosci.
• Jira and Confluence.

Rate: $2,600 - $3,500 per month

Why work with us

• Company laptop.
• Annual rate review.
• Paid in USD.
• Paid time off.

Include your expected salary and earliest start date with your application.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Scott Marketing.