[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @Horizontal Digital

Role Description

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager with a consulting mindset to join our growing team. In this role, you will be responsible for cultivating high-performing teams and acting as a trusted advisor to our clients. You will drive delivery excellence and value outcomes with speed and quality on your programs/projects. You will bring your expertise to partner with clients, identify their needs and challenges, and then leverage Agile (and hybrid) practices to deliver exceptional results.

• Project Delivery: Independently lead one large, complex project in a full-time capacity or multiple mid-size complex projects simultaneously comprised of cross-functional Horizontal team members.
• Delivery Consulting: Consult on delivery strategies to ensure success, including frameworks, tools, processes, etc. Drive agile and product delivery methods wherever possible. Solve complex delivery issues and modify processes as needed for each engagement to ensure success.
• Project Planning: Create and manage detailed project plans based on the delivery methodology/framework chosen, project scope, constraints, risks, and dependencies.
• Budget Management: Proactively manage your project budgets to ensure the work we’re planning to deliver can be accomplished within the approved budget. Monitor weekly burn and velocity to develop burndown reports against remaining scope. Understand and report on project margin performance and revenue forecasting. Develop plans to course-correct if project begins to trend over budget.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify project risks and build mitigation plans in an ongoing RAID log. Triage projects in the red to identify a path to green. Escalate as needed to obtain support and solve risks before they become issues.
• Client Partnership: Be the primary point of contact for clients in delivery to not only deliver consistent status, communicate risks, and manage deliverables – but also to build strong client relationships and be seen as a delivery leader and consultant.
• Scope Management: Fully understand the scope of work being delivered and consult with the team and client to manage to it consistently. Proactively prioritize scope where needed. Estimate, create, and deliver change orders as needed when scope deviates.
• Tools Knowledge: Hold expert-level knowledge of standard PM tools, including Smartsheet and Atlassian suite (Jira; Confluence).
• Team Leadership: Lead a team of globally distributed cross-functional Horizontal designers, strategists, technologists, etc. to understand client objectives and successfully deliver solutions that achieve them. Manage resourcing process within assigned projects.
• Practice Involvement: Actively participate in initiatives that uplevel and mature the Horizontal Delivery team. Proactively identify ways we can improve our processes/methods and work with practice leadership to fill gaps as appropriate.
• Mentorship and Coaching: Mentor junior program managers and team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading and executing large-scale digital transformation initiatives that deliver significant business value and competitive advantage.
• Deep expertise in leveraging key technologies like CMS, CRM, CDP, Sitecore, and Salesforce products to drive transformational digital initiatives.
• Experience in advising key client stakeholders on digital program best practices to optimize their program operations and enhance their digital presence.
• Ability to identify and capitalize on new opportunities to drive growth and innovation.

Requirements

• Minimum 7+ years of experience leading digital projects/programs.
• A minimum of 2 years agency/consultancy experience. 5+ years preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Certifications in Agile methodologies (e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP) preferred.
• Experience with standard project management tools including Smartsheet and Jira/Confluence (or similar).
• Some travel required based on client and business needs.

Benefits