Sr. Video Project Manager

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Location:
Rahway, NJ

Job Type: Contract

Compensation Range: $45 - 52 per hour

We're looking for a passionate and talented Sr. Video Project Manager to join our company's creative agency. We are a best-in-class, integrated team dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge science to create innovative, engaging, and effective content that improves lives around the world. If you're a creative professional who is committed to making a difference and wants to work with a team that values innovation and impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Manage schedules, resourcing, budgets, assets, and overall project organization to ensure the team meets project requirements and client expectations.
• Ensure project requirements, deliverables and key milestones are clearly communicated and understood by clients, talent, and key stakeholders.
• Manage clear, and detailed timelines including internal and client routing.
• Ensure that creative staff and production teams understand their specific tasks, responsibilities and accountabilities and are properly executing their assignments.
• Manage project status report, reporting on all tasks due and action items around all deadlines for client and agency team.
• Document individual functional team's work on large accounts/projects.
• Organize efforts of multiple functional teams working on large and SMALL Executive Leadership projects and campaigns and ensure proper communication flow occurs between all teams and deliverables.
• Work collaboratively with Account Managers (and/or designate appropriate resources to provide support) in development of proposals, presentations, statements of work, contracts, etc. to ensure projects are accurately scoped, estimated, priced, resourced, communicated, and aligned with services offered by Merck Creative Studios.
• Strong client communication to provide updates on financials, production timing and other critical production elements (social media cut downs)
• May often work without an account or creative team working directly with senior producers and clients.
• Leads internal team related to estimates, timelines, and deliverables.
• Works with 3rd party vendors and communicates vendor activities, action items and deliverables back to the team - and records on team status report.
• Prepare bills, estimates, invoices, budgets, and progress reports.
• Communicates regularly and leads weekly status meetings with Account Director and project teams on the overall status of projects including timelines, estimates, questions and approvals needed from client and internal teams.
• Provide ongoing monitoring and oversight on projects to ensure projects are being executed effectively according to approved timelines and budgets and in accordance with best practices including the management of project scope, risk, and changes.
• Work collaboratively with Agency teams to identify, document, and communicate contract staff resource needs as appropriate.
• Drive project management of creative operational processes and procedures related to the execution of deliverables and services offerings to ensure internal team and client are aware of every step of a project lifecycle.

• BA/BS preferred.
• 8+ years field experience in project management.
• 8+ years experience in creative production.
• 5+ years managing Video projects
  -from small projects under $30k to large projects for social media.
• Pharmaceutical experience preferred.
• Talent should have some understanding of the PRT process.
• Talent can have omni channel experience but not websites or digital rather than Video as their primary role.

• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Must be able to develop budgets, full timelines, track department billable time and expenses and submit invoices for services in a timely manner.
• Ability to apply strategic thinking to project challenges and opportunities.
• Knowledge of the video production process and the roles needed for successful production.
• Fluent in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook and Adobe Acrobat.
• Possess excellent project management, organizational, administrative, reporting, and time management skills - effectively manage and prioritize numerous projects with tight deadlines with little or no supervision, while maintaining a professional and appropriate demeanor.
• Possess excellent interpersonal and client and team management skills.
• Ability to create and maintain a positive work environment for the team.
• Commitment to adhere to all Cella/Randstad and Merck policies and procedures and the team objectives of customer service, operational excellence, teamwork, continuous process improvement, ONE TEAM approach, communication to internal stakeholders, managing approvals prior to client communication, leading by example and…