Project Manager

Casting Call

Project Manager with:

• A love for planning everything and anything
• A knack for turning ambiguity into clarity
• An instinct to orchestrate fast-moving pieces.

Mission

Deliver exceptional client experiences through operational excellence, bringing clarity, structure, and accountability to every project while enabling teams to do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of projects by coordinating people, resources, timelines, budgets, and deliverables while maintaining visibility across all moving parts.
• Develop a deep understanding of client goals, project requirements, and team dynamics to deliver exceptional outcomes.
• Partner with Account Directors and Creative Leads to define project scope, priorities, resource requirements, timelines, and delivery plans.
• Manage project schedules, workflows, budgets, forecasts, vendors, stakeholder expectations, and communications across multiple client engagements.
• Monitor project financial health, including estimates, burn, scope changes, profitability, and forecasting, taking proactive action when projects drift from plan.
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact, ensuring clear communication, alignment, and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate project kickoffs, status meetings, reviews, and retrospectives to keep teams aligned and projects moving forward.
• Identify risks early, resolve issues proactively, and make informed decisions that protect project success.
• Partner with Creative Operations and department leads to optimize resource utilization, balance workloads, and ensure the right people are assigned to the right work.
• Support conferences, trade shows, executive events, and experiential activations by coordinating logistics, vendors, timelines, and on-site execution as required.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, reporting, and operational processes to ensure visibility, consistency, and accountability.
• Foster collaboration across cross-functional teams while continuously improving workflows, communication, and operational excellence.
• Own your projects end-to-end, taking full accountability for successful delivery and exceptional client experiences.

Rewards

• Full-time hybrid, minimum of three days a week in office (Toronto)
• Starting salary range between $65-80K, depending on capability and competency
• Support system for personal and professional development
• Higher autonomy with greater role effectiveness.
• Benefits package (family, health, wellness, dental, vision, prescription, etc.).
• Paid time-off (holidays, vacation, sick and wellness days, etc.).
• Warm office environment with designated desks and a fully stocked kitchen.
• And more to support the whole you.

Suitability: How to qualify for this role.

Must-haves

• Minimum 3 years of project management experience within a creative, branding, marketing, advertising, or experiential agency. Agency experience is required.
• Proven success managing client-facing projects from scope through delivery in a fast-paced agency environment.
• Strong capability to plan, prioritize, schedule, and orchestrate multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Experience supporting or delivering conferences, trade shows, executive events, experiential activations, or similar live experiences.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and interpersonal).
• Proficiency in modern project management tools (Asana or equivalent).
• Proficiency with Google Workspace (Drive, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.).

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in B2B enterprise marketing and communications.
• Background in creative, marketing, business strategy, and/or B2B marketing.
• Experience as a Scrum Master or working within Agile environments.