Senior Program Manager (Freelance)

undefined ago • 5-7 Years • Program Management • $73,902.4 PA - $116,376 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

PH CoLab is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join a robust team leading clients to new innovations. The ideal candidate is a project management expert, mentor, and advocate, trusted to align internal teams and drive deliverables to execution. This role involves overseeing a significant client book of business, partnering with departments to resolve project-level issues, and advocating for process improvements. This position is a 4-6 week contract.
Must have:
  • Lead projects, ensuring high-quality deliverables, client satisfaction, business requirements, and balanced economics.
  • Define project scope, draft SOWs, create staff plans, estimate budgets, and produce timelines aligned with client needs.
  • Interface with marketing, technical, and creative leads to ensure solutions meet customer business requirements.
  • Manage work execution, tracking progress, routing deliverables, monitoring scope, and analyzing financial performance.
  • Monitor project risks/issues, escalate promptly, and drive teams towards effective solutions.
  • Responsible for accurate financial management of assigned project portfolio.
  • Managing and mentoring junior staff.
Good to have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, MIS, Business Administration, or related field.
Perks:
  • Robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies.
  • Medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K.
  • Parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
  • Freelancer/temporary employee medical plan eligibility.
  • 401(k) plan eligibility for temporary roles.

Job Details

Job Description

Company description

CoLab is a fully integrated, cross-discipline team that provides best-in-class services in a fluid and modular way. With our clients at the center, we create brand movement at the speed of people’s lives by connecting real-time data with world-class creative, content, and media in service of growth and Return on investment.

CoLab is a “power of one” solution, encompassing data, media, and production. By drawing from across the vast Publicis Groupe network, we are uniquely positioned to deliver innovation and specialized skills to our clients, as well as enriching opportunities and inclusive benefits to our employees. We pride ourselves on combining the atmosphere of a startup company with the stability and experience of a global leader.

Overview

PH CoLab is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join a robust team who are leading our clients to new innovations. The ideal candidate is a project management expert, mentor, and advocate. They are a trusted partner able to align internal teams with a mutual understanding of all deliverables and drive them to execution. The Senior Project Manager will understand agency work products to oversee a team delivering work for at least one significant client book of business. They will partner with other departments to resolve project-level issues and advocate for process improvements.

This position will be a 4-6 week contract.

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Manager’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Act as the project lead across projects and be ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics
  • Define project scope, draft statements of work (SOWs), create staff plans, estimate budgets, and produce timelines that align to client and business needs
  • Interface heavily with marketing, technical, and creative senior leads to assure that the solution is understood and addresses the customer's business requirements
  • Manage the execution of work, which includes tracking team progress, routing deliverables for approval, monitoring scope, and analyzing financial performance
  • Actively monitor project risks/issues, escalate in a timely manner, and drive teams to effective solutions
  • Be responsible for the accurate financial management of the portfolio of projects to which they are assigned
  • In addition to the project responsibilities, may support pre-sales planning and scoping activities
  • Managing and mentoring junior staff

Qualifications

  • 5-7+ years applicable experience as a Project Manager in an agency setting
  • Fully integrated (marketing, technical, digital, etc) delivery experience is required
  • Healthcare or pharma experience is required
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, MIS, Business Administration, or related field is preferred but not required
  • Solid understanding of project management methodology, including the ability to identify and resolve issues,
  • manage risk, and develop detailed work plans and specifications
  • Comfort managing multidisciplinary teams, which may consist of creatives, technologists, media experts, etc
  • Experience interfacing with clients and partner vendors on technical delivery projects

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: $35.53 - $55.95 hourly. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/03/2025.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com

. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, today Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world and a leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, led by Arthur Sadoun, the third CEO in its history.


Publicis Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients’ transformation to enhance personalisation at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organisation, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 98,000 professionals.


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