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Project Manager - Medical Communications

Closer Look$85K — $100K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of project management experience in a Medical Communications agency
  • Experience with global med affairs accounts preferred
  • Solid project management knowledge
  • Financial reporting proficiency
  • Strong time management and prioritization skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage smaller accounts and standard projects independently
  • Familiarize with key business objectives and therapy areas
  • Support project finances and address out-of-scope issues
  • Maintain communication with clients and stakeholders
  • Drive project timelines and ensure milestones are met
  • Coordinate resource allocation and project support
  • Identify new opportunities within existing accounts

Benefits

  • 401K plan with employer match up to 4%
  • Flexible working arrangements, including remote options
  • 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies
  • Continuous professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
About The Role

The Medical Project Manager (PM) plays a crucial role in managing accounts of varying size and complexity, and projects independently, ensuring they are completed on budget, on schedule, and to the required specifications. This role is critical in meeting and consistently exceeding client expectations. PMs will be working with an extended team and under the guidance of senior team members.

As key client projects contact, PMs are responsible for coordinating with support agencies, driving project timelines, and addressing any concerns that arise. They must possess solid project management knowledge, including financial reporting skills, proficiency with project management software, and time management & project prioritisation skills. PMs are also expected to be client facing and develop good relationships with their clients, as well as building effective relationships with internal teams and mentoring junior team members and fostering their development. This involves supporting workload prioritisation, actively participating in meetings, providing valuable project feedback to ensure the seamless progression of all projects, and establishing themselves as a trusted member of the team as well as a reliable client partner.

What You'll Do

  • Project Oversight: Manage smaller accounts and standard projects independently, and assist in managing larger, more complex accounts.
  • Account Understanding: Be familiar with key business and brand objectives, as well as a working knowledge of the therapy area.
  • Financial Management: Support project finances, addressing out-of-scope issues and recommending corrective actions.
  • Stakeholder Communication: Maintain regular communication with client and other external and internal stakeholders, providing updates and flagging concerns.
  • Timeline Management: Drive project timelines, serving as the internal information hub, and ensuring milestones are met.
  • Resource Allocation and Management: Coordinate resource allocation and project resource management to ensure projects are adequately staffed and supported, balancing workload and capacity across teams.
  • Opportunity Identification: Where possible, identify and generate new opportunities within existing and new accounts.


The range of tasks which a PM may be asked to do includes but is not limited to:
  • Develop budgets, manage out-of-scope tasks, and perform financial reconciliation on standard budgets; assist with complex budgets.
  • Refine project management processes to resolve inefficiencies.
  • Manage project timeline/schedule development and updates.
  • Support account budget development and financial reporting.
  • Assist in client invoicing and financial tracking.
  • Drive internal and client status calls.
  • Ensure status sheets are updated, and client responses are actioned in a timely manner.
  • Mentor Associate Project Managers and Project Coordinators.
  • Participate in debrief meetings and implement feedback.


About You

  • Demonstrating a minimum of 3+ years of experience in project management within a Medical Communications agency.
  • Experience working on a global med affairs account (preferred)


$85,000 - $100,000 a year

Salary is DOE

What we can offer

You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.

Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.

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