Senior Project Manager (Contract)

BlastX Consulting•New York, NY

8h•$55 - $65•Remote

About The Position

Ready to Make your Mark? This is a 3-6 month contract role. Candidates must be available to work the full duration of the contract. You may be responsible for some or all of the assigned duties during the contract duration. The role is full-time, Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM EST, with targeted start date April 1. As a Senior Project Manager, you are the hub of successful project execution, ensuring the seamless delivery of our digital solutions. In this contract role, you will drive success by mastering resource coordination, defining and managing efficient workflows and forecasting project needs to ensure the team you support is positioned to exceed its goals. The Senior Project Manager serves as the operational leader for our highly motivated, multidisciplinary consulting teams. This teammate has a clear understanding of and experience with all phases of digital experience and analytics projects, focusing on resource planning, task management, on-time delivery, risk mitigation, and clear communication on project status and impact. Senior Project Managers partner with other consultants to enable exceptional delivery that meets our clients’ needs. You bring a strong operational mindset, a passion for creating efficiency, and experience leading the execution of complex initiatives. As a Project Manager, you have an opportunity to Make Your Mark every day by solving operational challenges and contributing to the positive impact our work has on clients and teams.

Requirements

5+ years of project management experience within professional services or technology.
4+ years experience working in a client-facing role or agency environment
Proven success delivering projects in Agile/Scrum environments.
Experience in resource planning, forecasting, and multi-team coordination.
Strong critical thinking, organization, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to translate complex or technical information into clear plans.
Deep experience with Confluence/JIRA (or similar tools like Asana, Monday, ClickUp).
Experience with Microsoft Project or similar PM tools.
Familiarity with digital experience disciplines such as Analytics, MarTech, CX Strategy, Experimentation, or Tag Management.
Ability to work effectively in a remote consulting environment.
BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
May require additional background checks for work with government clients.
This is a contract remote opportunity supporting clients on the East Coast. Eastern or Midwest time zone preferred. Due to the nature of our consulting agency, digital nomads will not be considered.

Nice To Haves

PMP certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Build strong relationships with clients to support measurable and impactful working relationships.
Serve as a key point of contact for project stakeholders, supporting the consulting team in communications with the client.
Ensure on-time, on-budget, and in-scope delivery of defined projects that deliver a high degree of client value and satisfaction.
Understand each client's business, goals and priorities, translating strategic plans into actionable project plans, tasks and timelines for the delivery team.
Work with consulting teams to ensure successful deliverables and outcomes are attained and that project value and impact are effectively tracked. Examples include Account Plans, scoped deliverables and client stories.
Assist in the coordination of high-impact meetings, developing detailed agendas and tracking action items and next steps.
Facilitate effective meetings focused on outcomes. Participate in discussions and ensure action items are identified, tracked and completed.
Partner with consultant teams to identify and present new client growth opportunities through the sales cycle.
Responsible for risk mitigation on all assigned projects: Identified risks and mitigation strategies and escalate as appropriate.
Act as the central traffic and resource coordinator for assigned clients, managing workflows, project plans and team assignments to ensure all commitments are delivered by their assigned dates.
Develop and maintain accurate resource projections and capacity plans, proactively identifying the need for an increase of decrease in assigned resources to maintain delivery excellence.
Effectively lead project ceremonies, including resource planning, prioritization, stand-ups and retrospectives and deliverable reviews to ensure quality and timeliness.
Manage and prioritize any project backlog in collaboration with consulting leads to ensure work aligns with client objectives and team capacity.
Identify, track, communicate and mitigate project risks, particularly those related to resource constraints, dependencies, timelines and cost overruns.
Help ensure the highest level of quality for all project deliverables by coordinating and managing quality assurance checks and review cycles.
Responsible for creating and maintaining clear project documentation, including project plans, resource forecasts, issue and task logs and status reports.