Senior Project Manager - Freelancer
Who We Are
VML is a global creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth. Guided by a Human First philosophy, VML is known for its innovative work for brands and consistently ranks among the world’s leading creative companies, including the WARC Creative 100. VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore.
VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.
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VML Luxembourg
VML Luxembourg is one of the leading Amazon consulting agencies in Europe. Offering 360° services for Amazon, we have a diverse range of products and services in various sectors to ensure long-term sales growth, ranging from creating multilingual content and listings to all aspects of advertising, including sales promotion, PPC and programmatic campaigns. We are part of WPP, the world’s largest digital media agency, and manage WPP’s European Center of Excellence for Amazon (ACE) dedicated to maximising performance, driving sales and building brands on the Amazon platform.
The opportunity
A Senior Project Manager is required to join our Luxembourg Content Team on a freelance basis. We are looking for an experienced professional who can independently lead complex, high-value and multi-market projects or client portfolios from initiation through delivery.
The role combines strong operational leadership, client-facing project management and commercial ownership. The successful candidate will manage broad scopes for large clients, coordinate multiple workstreams across markets and capabilities, and collaborate effectively with internal teams, partner agencies and distributed client stakeholders. They will ensure that risks are anticipated and that work is delivered to the agreed quality, timing, scope, budget and profitability standards.
What you’ll be doing
- Work & delivery | Lead complex, high-value and high-volume client projects and portfolios involving multiple brands, retailers, workstreams and markets. Own delivery end to end, maintaining clear plans and visibility of scope, priorities, timelines, resources, dependencies and deliverables.
- Commercial ownership | Independently prepare estimates, commercial offers, client proposals, Statements of Work and change requests, coordinating the required inputs and securing the necessary internal approvals. Monitor scope, budgets, forecasts and profitability, ensuring that changes are assessed and agreed before additional work begins.
- Delivery model | Translate approved scopes and contractual commitments into clear delivery plans, governance, workflows and project responsibilities.
- Integrated delivery & collaboration | Coordinate execution across internal teams, partner agencies, client stakeholders and external suppliers, ensuring clear ownership, effective collaboration and consistent delivery standards.
- Client partnership | Act as the senior operational point of contact for assigned projects. Lead client meetings and operational governance, ensuring clear decisions, actions, ownership and follow-through.
- Governance & risk | Anticipate and manage delivery, resource, quality and commercial risks, recommending corrective actions and escalating when necessary.
What we want from you
- A university degree in business, marketing, communications or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Significant experience independently managing complex, high-volume projects or client portfolios in an agency, consultancy or similarly fast-paced environment.
- Experience leading multiple workstreams across markets, cross-functional teams and partner agencies.