Freelance Senior Producer

Full Time
Calgary, AB, Canada
2 months ago

As an integrated Freelance Senior Producer you are a creative and strategic thinker with Agency experience who loves learning everything there is to know about a client’s brand, business, and customer. You have experience working with multidisciplinary teams, and you know what it takes to deliver a digital experience that can improve the lives of customers and surpasses the goals of clients. Both the client services and project delivery worlds are successfully navigated by your proactive communication of project statuses, issues, and opportunities to clients. You adeptly work with the project team tracking scope, schedule, staffing, and budget on medium to large sized projects. You have a passion for digital project delivery and want to work with globally admired brands.

You will:

  • Manage Client Relations by...
    • Acting as primary contact of communicating needs between the client, team, and vendors.
    • Understanding your client’s short and long-term goals, as well as their competition. 
    • Informing clients how to drive project success.
    • Delivering solutions to drive consensus for problems in a professional and timely manner.
  • Ensure Project Excellence by...
    • Supporting developing solutions to drive client business.
    • Maintaining a unique perspective of a common goal to increase knowledge, communication, and awareness between team members and the client.
    • Aligning the team to project goals by sharing client insights and objectives.
    • Creating solid project plans with top-down and bottom-up budgets to support clients’ interests.
    • Executing project plans according to established procedures, channels, and expectations.
    • Managing and maintaining project scopes and communicate status of scope to team.
    • Participating in both client and internal meetings.
    • Coordinating project deliverables and guide the team on potential risks.
    • Creating an articulate storyline of all client materials.
    • Defining, negotiating, communicating, implementing and monitoring quality standards on all project deliverables.
    • Managing project communication and document issues and changes that affect the project.
    • Developing status reports and work with capability project leaders to ensure all resources.
    • Creating a positive, team-oriented environment that promotes award-winning work.
    • Forecasting, tracking, and managing project budgets and revenue, POs, and invoices.-Identify, analyze, prioritize, mitigate, and communicate project risks.
    • Resourcing projects effectively and with agility to compensate for shifting client needs and team’s capacity constraints

You have:

  • 5-7 years Agency experience managing a variety of digital project types; site builds, e-commerce, marketing campaigns, microsites, and maintenance.
  • Experience with office productivity tools such as Slack, Excel, Word, MS Project, Visio, and PowerPoint.
  • Experience with collaboration and issue tracking tools such as Smartsheet, Box, JIRA, and Confluence.
  • Strong understanding of how to manage and control project scope, schedule, budget and resource management / reporting and change management, project roadmap development, and revenue forecasting.
  • Strong working knowledge of Project Management principles, methods, and techniques.
  • Experience managing teams and conversations with clients around scope, schedule, and budget as well as roadmaps, objectives, and strategies.
  • Familiarity with e-commerce and marketing automation is a plus

The Talent Team at Critical Mass is focused on ensuring we provide the best training, mentorship, and employee experience possible!  CM new hires & employees are the future of our organization, and we want to set you up for long-term success.  In an effort to do so, we expect our team to work from an office a minimum of 4 days a week.  The ask stems from our want to:

  • Strengthen opportunity for continuous learning
  • Improve collaboration and team relationships.
  • Increase employee engagement

We understand that not everyone may feel comfortable with this expectation, so we ask that you please let us know immediately if there are any concerns.

Critical Mass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you are an individual with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please reach out to accommodations@criticalmass.com.

We are committed to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within our pool of candidates, with a target of achieving at least 50% representation from underrepresented communities.

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