Anna Schmeeckle
Chicago,IL
Summary
Strategic Project Manager with over 5 years of experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, highly visible environments. Proven track record managing multi-million-dollar budgets, driving end-to-end project delivery, and partnering with senior stakeholders to ensure projects are executed on time, within scope, and with measurable outcomes. Adept at establishing project governance, managing risk and change, improving processes, and fostering strong collaboration across creative, technical, and business teams.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager
MSL Group
Chicago, IL
05.2023 - Current
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large, cross-functional initiatives, overseeing multi-million-dollar budgets and PO processes across 10+ U.S. and global workstreams, including forecasting, billing, and financial governance.
- Manage complex project lifecycles from scope definition through launch and closeout, aligning timelines, dependencies, resources, and stakeholder inputs to ensure projects meet strategic objectives and measurable outcomes.
- Drive day-to-day execution through structured status cadences, overseeing creative deliverables, resolving risks and blockers, and managing resourcing to balance workloads across concurrent programs.
- Led cross agency teams on high visibility Super Bowl campaigns, delivering TV, influencer, partnership, and digital activations within compressed timelines and heightened brand and performance expectations.
- Collaborate closely with executive leadership and key stakeholders, supporting organization-wide initiatives by improving coordination, reinforcing project standards, and ensuring consistent, disciplined execution.
Project Coordinator, Advertising
Eversana Intouch Group
Chicago, IL
09.2021 - 04.2023
- Owned primary responsibility for high-priority initiatives, managing timelines, scheduling, routing, and financial reporting while overseeing a $6M budget across multiple product portfolios.
- Drove planning and execution of tactical workstreams, translating project objectives into clear plans and deliverables to support successful outcomes across multiple client engagements.
- Served as a central point of coordination between clients and internal teams, aligning expectations, addressing needs, and ensuring projects were executed smoothly and to standard.
- Facilitated cross-functional collaboration across subject matter experts, account, reporting, and finance teams, supporting consistent execution, issue resolution, and operational follow-through.
Associate Consultant
Cerner Corporation
Kansas City, MO
03.2020 - 09.2021
- Planned and facilitated client meetings and events to ensure decisions were made, project milestones met, and client goals achieved.
- Coached clients on data collection and provided them with recommendations for system design requirements to determine optimal solution build and implementation.
Academy Consultant
Cerner Corporation
Kansas City, MO
07.2019 - 03.2020
- Completed Cerner consulting methodology training, gaining hands-on experience in client engagement and enterprise software implementation.
- Partnered with cross-functional teams to support end-to-end implementations, contributing to data intake, workflow design, testing, and issue resolution.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Marketing
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS01-2019
Skills
- End-to-end project management
- Cross-functional leadership
- Stakeholder & executive communication
- Financial reporting
- Timeline & scope management
- Risk management
- Asana
- Smartsheet
- Microsoft Suite
- Workday
Timeline
Project Manager
MSL Group
05.2023 - Current
Project Coordinator, Advertising
Eversana Intouch Group
09.2021 - 04.2023
Associate Consultant
Cerner Corporation
03.2020 - 09.2021
Academy Consultant
Cerner Corporation
07.2019 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science - Business Marketing
University of Kansas