About Your Day-to-Day:

• • Lead Project Management on a high-profile client portfolio globally, which will consist or either one top client of large scale or up to 4 smaller top clients (to be decided by PM leadership).
  • Partner with account and specialty leads in the annual planning and forecasting process. This means drawing upon knowledge of Edelmans full official offering list and all of Edelmans specialty pools to ensure that all plans are grounded in the work and the specialists best place to deliver it.
  • Own the intake of new work and the evaluation of new briefs within assigned portfolios, facilitating onE Team integrated triage to identify the offerings being sold, and with them the specialties required to collaborate on scoping and budgeting.
  • Partner with global PM leadership and regional operational leadership to implement the approved global vision for project management and contribute to the future evolution of the discipline within Edelman.
  • Own and manage project definition in scopes and staff plans with account leads and specialty teams within their portfolios, producing/overseeing indicative pricing and detailed budgets that match a description of deliverables and actual work effort.
  • Use approved Project Management tools in SmartSheet to establish portfolio dashboards and reports to report on financial health, live work and performance against KPIs. Also use SmartSheet to facilitate project and respirce requests.
  • Independently own the delivery of multiple large, complex programs independently and with support from PM leaders and more junior project managers.
  • Serve as an escalation point to manage risks and provide solutions-oriented consultation to integrated team leads, proactively looking around corners, controlling project scope and the change control process, and collaborating with leads to strategically identify and implement win-win solutions.
  • Partner with Finance and Account teams to ensure clients are profitable, fees are appropriate, forecasts are accurate, and SOWs are approved.
  • Ensure ongoing portfolio and project health reporting where financial and non-financial KPIs are reported on to client, specialty, and geo leadership.
  • Drive client discussions related to delivery strategy, scope, Edelman capabilities and budget.
  • Partner with Resource Management to forecast current and future staffing requirements on assigned portfolios in based both on annual planning and individual project SOWs.
  • Establish workflow and best practices on integrated businesses that enable teams to efficiently deliver against program goals.
  • Ensure quality checks and consistency of all outputs across all project deliverables
  • Ensure flexibility in approaches to fit client, creative and business needs, while managing change and the exploration of various budget/time scenarios to elevate work.
  • Contribute to project operations and the work behind the work - prioritizing of new project opportunities, establishing flexible frameworks and best practices with new teams, and providing input on PM team assignments.
  • Manage and mentor Project Management team members, including resolving project escalations, setting and managing performance goals, coaching individual career growth paths, and balancing workloads. This will include the delivery of at least one training to the full global PM community every year.
  • Balance a sense of urgency with a calm and confident leadership at all times.