MORGAN CALLAHAN
New York,USA
Summary
Results-driven Senior Project Manager with extensive experience managing multi-million dollar client portfolios and leading global teams in healthcare advertising. Delivers operational transformations by implementing systems that enhance margins and accelerate project delivery. Demonstrates strong organizational, multitasking, and problem-solving skills to achieve project goals.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director, Project Management
CoLab - Publicis Health
New York, NY
12.2025 - Current
- Co-leading $10.3M client portfolio funded by US and Global stakeholders.
- Directed execution of foundational projects, serving as primary liaison for 25-member internal team, external vendors, and cross-disciplinary stakeholders, ensuring tactical delivery aligned with business strategy and operational priorities.
- Developed and managed annual budgeting and forecasting for US and Global clients, tracking financials weekly and monitoring project spend; secured $1.5M in additional client funding through timely negotiations to protect margins.
- Client-facing lead, presenting key project updates, financial performance, and strategic insights to US and global stakeholders, translating project status into actionable recommendations to drive alignment and decision making while building strong client relationships.
- Led year-end reconciliation of portfolio funds, validating forecasts against actuals and recommending reallocation of $400K in unspent budget, executed by Business Management to preserve funding and avoid return of capital.
- Collaborated with team to improve operational efficiency. in operating and capacity planning, supporting portfolio road mapping and resource allocation to maximize utilization and support revenue objectives.
- Identified interdependencies and operational risks across initiatives, implementing mitigation strategies to ensure projects met financial, timeline, and organizational targets.
- Owns development and ongoing management of annual portfolio Gantt's, used to sequence work across the year, align internal and external stakeholders on strategic objectives, and provide a shared view of priorities, dependencies, and timelines; regular reviews minimize delivery risk and lost revenue.
Senior Project Manager
CoLab
New York, NY
03.2024 - 12.2025
- Led the launch of new global business, overseeing $7M in client funding and delivered a $4M project portfolio, resulting in $3M in retained profit.
- Managed daily operations from inception to completion of a multi project portfolio, serving as the central liaison between 15-member internal team, external vendors, and multiple cross-disciplinary client groups to ensure timely and successful tactic delivery.
- Owned Global budgeting and forecasting, tracking financials and assessing project spend weekly to equip client-facing leads with insights that protected and grew portfolio margins.
- Created and managed automated resource-tracking system used agency-wide to forecast employee hours by project, transforming data into actionable insights that flagged risks early and enabled teams to address overages, optimize staffing allocations, and ensure on-time project delivery.
- Translated business needs into practical system updates by developing timeline templates and standardizing processes, enhancing operational efficiency and increasing project delivery capacity.
- Contributed to client-facing presentations by supplying project status, and financial performance metrics, enabling client-facing leads to deliver actionable recommendations and strengthen stakeholder alignment.
- Managed work of direct reports, providing guidance and ensuring alignment with organizational goals and performance standards.
Project Manager
CoLab
New York, NY
12.2023 - 03.2024
- Co-led the launch of new business, overseeing $4.1M in client funding and delivered a $2.9M project portfolio, resulting in $1.2M in retained profit.
- Developed detailed project estimates for initiatives, analyzed budget constraints, and recommended actions to align project efforts with financial goals.
- Coordinated creative teams and tracked progress of multiple projects to ensure timely and accurate delivery of portfolio deliverables.
- Onboarded new associate from hire through project launch, overseeing timelines and providing guidance to ensure understanding of deliverables for on-time execution.
Project Manager
Saatchi & Saatchi - Publicis Health
New York, NY
12.2020 - 03.2024
- Co-led the rebrand and launch of new business, overseeing $3M in client funding and delivering $1.5M project portfolio, resulting in $1.5M in retained profit.
- Directed planning and execution of 50+ tactical handoffs to external vendors and agency partners, ensuring timeline adherence and smooth team transition to new business.
- Contributed to day-to-day execution across a broader portfolio by owning a subset of projects, tracking progress, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and supporting adherence to established processes.
- Developed project estimates for initiatives and monitored efforts against budget constraints, identifying variances and contributing to financial planning.
- Maintained rolling three-month capacity forecast by tracking project hours, facilitating resource allocation and balancing workloads across project portfolio.
Project Coordinator
Harrison and Star, a Omnicom - owned health care advertisement agency
New York, NY
07.2019 - 11.2020
- Co-led brand teams across organization, overseeing execution for diverse client portfolio to align strategic and operational objectives.
- Led cross-functional execution across multiple concurrent workstreams, monitoring progress and coordinating internal teams and external partners to ensure alignment for on-time delivery.
- Directed daily execution and status reporting to monitor progress and ensure consistent, on-time delivery across workstreams.
- Built and maintained timelines and effort estimates across multiple brands and workstreams, using Microsoft Project and Excel to support milestone adherence.
- Designed and implemented an agency-wide Excel-based workflow tool to standardize and automate project data management, improving productivity, data quality, and execution efficiency across the organization.
Education
Bachelor - Communications
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CTSkills
- Project & Portfolio management
- Budget forecasting & management
- Stakeholder communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Resource allocation
- Strategic leadership
- MS office - Excel, Word, MS Project
- JIRA
- Smartsheet, Hive
Interests
- Travel
- Photography
- Sports - New York Mets!!
- Family and Friends
- Plant Mom
Timeline
Associate Director, Project Management
CoLab - Publicis Health
12.2025 - Current
Senior Project Manager
CoLab
03.2024 - 12.2025
Project Manager
CoLab
12.2023 - 03.2024
Project Manager
Saatchi & Saatchi - Publicis Health
12.2020 - 03.2024
Project Coordinator
Harrison and Star, a Omnicom - owned health care advertisement agency
07.2019 - 11.2020
Bachelor - Communications
Fairfield University