Senior Project Manager

Welcome to the LePub network: São Paulo, Milan, Rome, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Singapore, Johannesburg. Where brands meet culture.
Our DNA? Data, creativity and tech.

As the Senior Project Manager at LePub, you are responsible for the health and quality of client projects, focusing on maintaining margin, delivery efficiency and creative excellence while managing risk mitigation and resolution.

The ideal candidate should have experience structuring and leading marketing and advertising projects comprised of multidisciplinary resources and parallel lines of business, with demonstrated success in collaborating with key agency stakeholders, including but not limited to Creative, Account Services, Finance, Strategy, Data and Culture, Media, and Technology. Experience with managing multi-channel engagements (video, TVC, social, digital, experiential, activation, print, etc.) is required.

The Senior Project Manager will represent the discipline with internal and client stakeholders, while building and maintaining strong relationships with agency, client, and third-party partners.

They will work with these entities to proactively solve challenges and contribute to the development of processes that adapt to evolving business challenges, best practices and industry standards.

• Work with account and client stakeholders to instill and enforce processes, workflows and tools that support the profitable delivery of client work.
• Contribute to a culture of creative excellence by driving projects through with efficiency and understanding of what key stakeholders need to be involved at which points in the process.
• Responsible for the scoping and management of multiple concurrent small to large scale- projects and client engagements totaling over $1-5MM annually.
• Partner with Client Service and Finance leads to actively manage business challenges, client relationships, developing annual scopes and contracts, estimates and staffing plans against scoped work, and maintaining profit margin.
• Partner with Creative to effectively shepherd and manage the evolution of creative work, ensuring quality at all points from concept through delivery. Active partnership with Resource Managers, Production, and Technology departments to ensure connections and collaborations happen where they should, in support of innovative and award-winning creative ideas.
• Maintain and enforce high standards of communications and documentation, including status, financial reports, timelines, scopes, change orders, burn reports and forecasting, best practices and asset management.
• Manage large projects independently from initiation through support production through completion
• Maintain departmental values, vision, direction and responsibilities with team stakeholders.
• Partner with internal team both locally and globally to continuously optimize existing operational processes and systems, ensuring buy-in and compliance with directs.
• Provide solutions-oriented management with a strong ability to creatively solve problems with a positive, professional demeanor and a high degree of emotional intelligence.
• Manage social media uploads and reporting for client assignments inclusive of uploading and managing through Brand Watch.
• Proactively manage, provide guidance, and develop clear communications around project and business-related risks, including mitigation planning and crisis management.
• Actively participate in agency new business opportunities/initiatives.

• organization working with cross-functional stakeholders including strategy, data and planning, creative, editorial, experience design, production, technology, operations and resourcing.
• Demonstrated understanding of project management methodologies, process and tools,
• including creating project timelines, staffing, scoping/estimating and burn management.
• Proficiency with MS Office, project management software (Smartsheet, Basecamp, Monday.com, Workfront, etc)

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.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

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

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