Senior Project Manager leading complex strategic initiatives for iA Financial Group, a Canadian insurance and financial services company. Driving organizational performance, risk management, and cross - functional decision - making.
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Contract Project Manager
Posted 7 hours ago
About the role
- Contract Project Manager supporting APR’s advertising production consultancy with account governance, staffing, scopes, and financial delivery. Optimizing project workflows, resources, budgets, and client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Support the Client Solutions team to contribute to the financial health and success of the account portfolio
- Manage staffing and labor on project schedules
- Develop pricing and scope and ensure internal planning and delivery of project deliverables
- Partner with Group Directors, Managing Advisors, and other stakeholders
- Guide development, management, and delivery of scoped deliverables
- Assess resource allocation and profitability
- Influence internal processes and operational standards
- Oversee account performance, including labor tracking, billing accuracy, risk management, and scope adherence
- Ensure scopes, deliverables, and services remain aligned with business objectives
- Conduct impact analyses for scope changes and recommend next steps
- Manage client scopes of work, cost outs, contracts, and billing requirements
- Facilitate retrospectives, document lessons learned, and refine portfolio management processes
- Balance core responsibilities with supplemental client and internal engagements
- Provide peer coverage and support overflow workloads
- Track company capacity, personnel assignments, resource gaps, and future workloads
- Resolve resource conflicts and optimize utilization across accounts
- Support resource allocation, tracking, and prioritization
- Track project or retainer actuals against SOW hours, deliverables, or project counts
- Lead efforts to achieve project objectives and accurately scope task and project duration and difficulty
- Ensure project tasks are completed within scope, time, budget, and quality constraints
- Support end-to-end account workflow, time management, scope delivery, and risk prioritization
- Anticipate problems and roadblocks, plan contingencies, and recommend solutions
- Maintain process documentation, operational policies, production calendars, timelines, and reports
- Schedule internal and client meetings and maintain documentation, file structures, and naming conventions
- Manage team schedules, deadlines, reporting workflows, and client reporting calendars
- Identify procedural improvements and engage others in implementing them
- Build client relationships and attend client meetings
- Measure performance against goals
- Partner with Group Directors and Client Services on SOWs and staffing plans
- Create and review project or retainer cost-outs and track actuals against budget
- Review burn reports, monitor contribution margins, and recommend adjustments
- Maintain detailed records of scope changes
- Manage financial milestones and coordinate payment reconciliation with finance
- Participate in monthly finance and billing reviews
- Collaborate across teams, including global teams, and support operational excellence
- Support company collaboration, archival, and financial tools and systems
Requirements
- 6-8 years experience as a Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, or similar in advertising/marketing industry
- PMP Certification (Project Management Professional) or actively working to obtain certification desired
- Proficiency in Google Workspace
- Experience with Deltek Workbook or Deltek products is a plus
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and adaptable
- Calm and focused under pressure; assertive conflict-resolution and problem-solving skills
- Effective decision-maker, even under tight deadlines
- Demonstrates confidence, professionalism, and diplomacy
- Capable of establishing strong relationships and gaining trust from peers
- Positive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented
- Embraces technology advancements and process changes
- Future-focused and technologically adept
- Good listener, takes feedback well, and addresses problems
- Lead, motivate and inspire with compassion and vision
- Must be willing to work on a project basis as an Independent Contractor
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