Hunt Adkins | Senior Project Manager
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Description
Hunt Adkins is seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to join our dynamic team. This leadership role is crucial in managing complex, multi-channel campaigns while guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality work on time and within budget. As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll play a key part in shaping the agency's processes, driving strategic initiatives, and ensuring seamless collaboration across teams. Your expertise in project management will help elevate the agency's performance and the success of our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the project management of high-profile, complex projects across various platforms (digital, print, video, experiential), ensuring seamless execution from concept to completion.
• Develop and implement project plans, aligning with both client business goals and the agency’s creative vision.
• Oversee project planning, including scoping, budgeting, resource allocation, and scheduling, while mitigating risks and ensuring alignment with timelines and objectives.
• Serve as a trusted client partner, anticipating needs and proactively addressing challenges, while managing expectations and delivering regular updates.
• Drive cross-departmental collaboration, fostering strong working relationships between account teams, creative teams, strategists, and external partners.
• Manage day-to-day project tasks, identifying and resolving issues that may arise during creative and production.
• Monitor the financial performance of projects, ensuring that deliverables stay within budget, while identifying areas for cost savings and process optimization.
• Maintain organized project documentation, including status reports, hot sheets, meeting notes, and post-project evaluations.
• Ensure that all project deliverables meet the agency’s quality standards, brand guidelines, and client expectations.
• Implement and improve processes to enhance project efficiency, resource utilization, and communication across departments.
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field.
• 6-10 years of project management experience in an advertising agency or similar creative-first agency environment.
• Deep understanding of advertising and marketing principles, including digital, social, print, and experiential mediums.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, large-scale projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, creative environment.
• Proven track record of building strong relationships and delivering exceptional client service.
• Exceptional organizational, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex ideas and contribute to discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency with project management tools such as Hive and Aqua Webvantage.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience managing budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, solve problems creatively, and make decisive, strategic decisions under pressure.
• Experience managing high-profile accounts in sectors such as retail, healthcare, consumer or lifestyle brands required.
Why Join Hunt Adkins?
At Hunt Adkins, we’re more than just an ad agency—we’re a creative partner for brands that dare to think differently. We’ve been rejecting the conveyor belts and injection molds of the corporate agency machine in favor of cultivating an innovative, independent garden where brands both big and small can put down roots and become the best versions of themselves. You’ll have the opportunity to work with bold clients and a team of passionate creatives in a collaborative and inspiring environment. We offer competitive benefits, hybrid work options, and a culture that supports professional growth.