# Freelance Project Manager/ Producer

**Company:** [We Are Social](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/5MxBxeFCSoqw7kjoeD8YJ7.md)
**Location:** Toronto, Canada
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** Client Services

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## Description

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Project Manager/Producer to join our team and work across key accounts – bringing with them extensive experience in delivering varied types of program deliverables and content for distribution across digital and social, with an enthusiasm to work in a fast-paced environment where no two days are the same.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

-   Taking ownership of projects and see them through to completion
-   Managing work across various channels, including social and editorial content, influencer work, events, video etc.
-   Creating timelines, booking and managing resources and ensuring that agency resources are used efficiently
-   Scoping jobs and writing statements of work
-   Managing budgets and reconciling each phase of the job
-   Ensuring all work is signed off at the right stages, by the right people; both internal sign-off, and client approvals
-   Ensure that all project team members also complete their timesheets in a timely fashion, ensuring accurate project actuals
-   Track account health. This includes monitoring project progress, burn rate, budget management, third party and freelance team management and developing plans to course correct the team as needed.

## Requirements

REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS ROLE

-   Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications, or a related field.
-   3+ years of experience in project management or a related field, with a focus on operations, team management and project planning.
-   Experience with a wide variety of marketing and content deliverable types
-   Familiar with agency turn-around times and ways of working, good understanding of the dynamics of agency processes, and enjoy the pace and challenges this brings
-   Proactive and good at foreseeing problems, with the ability to mitigate issues as soon as they are identified, propose creative solutions, and know when to escalate issues
-   Detail oriented and takes responsibility for fulfilling all components of the project/retainer deliverables
-   Confident and positive with a ‘can-do’ attitude
-   Extremely strong communication skills, both written and verbal
-   Organized with good attention to detail
-   Strong understanding and experience in managing project financials
-   Highly proficient with Google Suite (Gmail, Doc, Slides, Sheets, Drive, Meet, Chat, Gemini) and Slack. Baseline knowledge of Asana and other PM and A.I. tools and functions. Added plus: Knowledge of Workbook