Interim Project Manager

Position: Interim Project Manager (Contract)
Embed within the Red Ventures (RV) pilot to drive day-to-day technical and operational coordination across Strategy, Activation, Technology, and Testing & Experimentation work streams-tracking assets through test and release gates, aligning timelines and dependencies, ensuring crisp follow-ups and clear communication, and providing a single source of truth for status, risks, decisions, and next steps.

• Serve as the central point of contact across business units, campaign managers, agency partners, technology, and other stakeholders.

• Plan and run working sessions and checkpoints with clear agendas, owners, deadlines, and follow-ups.

• Maintain current trackers, notes, and status reports act as the single source of truth for testing status, asset pipeline, risks, and decisions.

• Apply a PMO mindset to documentation, including post-mortems and lessons learned.

• Monitor for process deviations, escalations, and resource conflicts drive timely resolution and escalate as needed.

• Partner with configuration/activation teams to triage capacity and unblock bottlenecks.

• Serve as the master of queues and statuses, always knowing the current state of work and next steps.

• Recommend improvements to PM tools, templates, and processes where appropriate.

Requirement:

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Skills:

Cross-functional project/program management, multi-workstream orchestration, technical & operational coordination, stakeholder management, vendor/agency partner coordination, timeline management, dependency management, critical path management, test & release gate management, QA/UAT coordination, production release coordination, asset pipeline tracking, status reporting, single-source-of-truth documentation, PMO documentation discipline, meeting facilitation, agenda setting, time boxing, action/owner/due-date tracking, follow-up management, risk/issue/decision management (RAID), escalation management, change control, scope management, capacity planning, resource conflict resolution, bottleneck triage/unblocking, process governance, process improvement/continuous improvement, metrics-driven decision making, analytical thinking, data literacy, negotiation, conflict resolution, systems thinking, structured problem solving, root-cause analysis, adaptability/learning agility, proficiency with PM tools (task boards, trackers, Gantt/roadmaps), Excel, PowerPoint Basic digital and website fluency (understands core web concepts such as URLs, links/redirects, landing pages, CMS updates, tagging/pixels, QA checks, and how site changes move through dev-stage-prod).