Senior Project Manager

Position Title: Senior Project Manager – Marketing Operations & Digital Asset Management Location: Vienna, VA (Onsite)
Clearance Requirements: None Position Status: Contract Pay Rate: $55 - $60 per hour

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex, cross‑functional initiatives spanning Enterprise Digital Asset Management (EDAM/EDA), Claravine, taxonomy modernization, metadata governance, and Marketing Operations.

This role will bring structure, accountability, and execution discipline to initiatives involving Marketing, Creative, Digital, Product, Analytics, Technology, and external vendors. The ideal candidate is a highly organized program/project leader who excels at stakeholder management, governance, risk mitigation, and driving decisions in complex or evolving environments.

You will play a key role in establishing effective operating models, coordinating work streams, improving digital asset management processes, and supporting organizational readiness for major releases and migrations.

• Lead day‑to‑day execution of EDAM, Claravine, taxonomy, metadata governance, and related Marketing Operations initiatives.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, timelines, and critical‑path activities.
• Coordinate cross‑functional work across Marketing, Creative, Digital, Product, Analytics, Technology, and vendor teams.
• Facilitate working sessions, steering committees, decision reviews, and stakeholder workshops.
• Proactively identify risks, remove blockers, resolve issues, and drive timely decision-making.

• Establish and maintain centralized repositories for decisions, assumptions, risks, issues, dependencies, action items, business definitions, and taxonomy standards.
• Maintain RAID logs, decision logs, escalation paths, and executive status reporting.
• Develop stakeholder maps and define roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and escalation processes.
• Drive alignment across teams and establish clear ownership for deliverables and decisions.
• Ensure impacted stakeholders understand program objectives, scope, responsibilities, and upcoming changes.

• Partner with Creative Services and business teams to prioritize requests, define deliverables, establish timelines, and drive accountability.
• Ensure creative work has clearly defined requirements, owners, milestones, and completion criteria.
• Track progress, identify dependencies, and proactively remove delivery obstacles.

• Support the development and adoption of metadata standards, taxonomy frameworks, asset naming conventions, and classification standards.
• Facilitate workshops to establish and document business terminology and taxonomy requirements.
• Coordinate stakeholder reviews, approvals, governance decisions, and implementation readiness.
• Support digital asset lifecycle management and consistent asset organization across enterprise repositories.

• Develop communication, training, adoption, and stakeholder readiness plans.
• Coordinate training materials, FAQs, stakeholder communications, and release‑readiness activities.
• Assess organizational impacts and develop mitigation strategies.
• Support business readiness for major platform releases, migrations, and process changes.

• Develop execution plans for post‑migration remediation and operational improvements.
• Coordinate cleanup and disposition of working files that should not reside within the enterprise digital asset management environment.
• Coordinate recovery activities related to Marketing Virtual Library access issues.
• Identify dependencies on legacy…