Freelance Project Manager

Main Responsibilities:

Project Validation and Scope Development:

• Validate the production brief by thoroughly understanding project requirements, objectives, and deadlines.
• Develop a detailed scope of work based on the user journey, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies.
• Create comprehensive production plans outlining activities per resource, deliverable, and milestones.

Resource Management and Ownership:

• Establish clear ownership for project tasks by understanding resource requirements and deliverables.
• Assess the implications of changes to the project scope in terms of costs, resourcing, and deadlines.
• Prepare cost estimates based on the project scope and resource requirements when necessary.

Client Communication:

• Maintain open and consistent communication with Client Service and resources throughout the project life cycle.
• Collaborate with Client Service to ensure clients have a clear understanding of expectations, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and project progress.

Issue Resolution and Risk Management:

• Proactively identify and raise red flags, proposing production solutions when problems arise.
• Work with Client Service and resources to secure necessary sign-off of deliverables at scheduled client and internal project reviews.
• Reporting and Documentation:

Create customized reporting for the team and clients, as needed.

• Manage scope creep to ensure projects are delivered on time, according to scope, budget, and strategy expectations.
• Evaluate all project deliverables to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality, and client approval.

Quality Assurance and Budget Management:

• Obtain formal sign-off on all project deliverables, involving feedback and input from the account management team, creative department, and the client.
• Develop contingency plans when project control is in jeopardy, with input from key team members, and implement revised plans, scopes, and budgets when necessary and in a timely manner.

Financial Management:

• Track and report team hours on a weekly basis.
• Manage all project budgets.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in project management, business, or a related field.
• Proven experience in project management, preferably in a creative or production environment.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in project management software and tools.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize effectively.
• Strong financial acumen and budget management skills.

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