Senior Creative Project Manager Jobs in Colorado

Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$60-70 Hourly
Start Date:
Jul 27, 2026
Join a leading financial services organization, partnering with Aquent, that is dedicated to innovation and client success. This dynamic company is at the forefront of shaping the future of financial services, delivering cutting-edge solutions and fostering a culture of excellence.
Are you a seasoned project management expert ready to make a significant impact on critical enterprise-wide initiatives? We're seeking a highly skilled individual to drive the seamless integration of external portfolios into our robust enterprise management, risk, and procurement frameworks. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape strategic processes, mitigate risks, and ensure operational excellence during a pivotal period of growth and transformation. You will play a pivotal role in coordinating complex, cross-functional workstreams, conducting crucial gap analyses, and designing interim processes that will lay the groundwork for long-term success. Your contributions will directly influence strategic alignment and operational efficiency across the organization.
**What You'll Do:**
* **Lead Integration Project Management:** Drive the execution of enterprise third-party integration programs across multiple concurrent workstreams, coordinating activities with diverse teams including Vendor Management, Third Party Risk Management, Legal, Procurement, Information Security, Finance, and other risk and control partners.
* **Develop Strategic Roadmaps:** Create and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues, ensuring precise alignment with the overall integration roadmap and leadership directives.
* **Navigate Complexity & Interdependencies:** Proactively track and manage interdependencies across workstreams, escalating risks and decisions to ensure smooth progress and timely resolution.
* **Conduct Gap & Variance Analysis:** Coordinate in-depth risk and process-based gap/variance analysis between current state practices and enterprise requirements.
* **Design Interim Solutions:** Support the design and documentation of interim processes and oversight approaches to effectively mitigate identified gaps ahead of full integration.
* **Track Portfolio Synergies:** Coordinate comprehensive analysis of third-party portfolios to identify overlapping or duplicate suppliers, align risk tiering and segmentation, and uncover opportunities for rationalization or consolidation.
* **Drive Synergy Tracking:** Establish and maintain critical synergy tracking artifacts (e.g., supplier overlaps, cost opportunities, risk reduction indicators), diligently tracking progress against targets set by leadership.
* **Facilitate Stakeholder Communication:** Prepare senior management-ready integration reporting, including status updates, key risks and mitigations, dependency and decision tracking, and portfolio and synergy summaries.
* **Support Executive Reporting:** Assist in the preparation of materials for integration governance forums and senior leadership reviews, ensuring clear and concise communication.
* **Orchestrate Alignment:** Facilitate working sessions and integration checkpoints to maintain consistent alignment and collaboration across all stakeholders.
* **Coordinate Data Integration:** Coordinate activities related to vendor and risk data integration, including inventory alignment and data readiness.
* **Manage Procurement Data:** Support coordination of activities involving enterprise procurement systems and related vendor data.
* **Maintain Structured Documentation:** Ensure transparency and continuity by maintaining structured documentation using standard project management and documentation tools.
**Must-Have Qualifications:**
* 8+ years of experience as a Project Manager, including supporting complex, cross-functional integration initiatives.
* Strong experience managing multiple parallel workstreams as a senior individual contributor.
* Proven ability to conduct and coordinate gap/variance analysis and support interim operating model design.
* Experience working with or adjacent to vendor management, procurement, supplier or third-party portfolios, or risk/compliance-related programs.
* Demonstrated ability to produce clear, executive-level integration reporting.
* Advanced proficiency in standard project management and documentation tools.
**Nice-to-Have Qualifications:**
* Post-acquisition or large-scale business integration experience.
* Exposure to third-party risk management concepts.
* Familiarity with enterprise procurement/vendor platforms.
* Experience tracking integration synergies (cost, efficiency, risk reduction).
* Regulated industry experience.
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**About Aquent Talent:**
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.