Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Associate Project Manager - Data Ecosystems and Platforms

Saatchi & Saatchi$110K — $150K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years experience in project management or program coordination within health, biomedical research, or data-driven initiatives.
  • Bachelor's degree required; master's degree in relevant fields preferred.
  • Skilled in tracking project milestones, deliverables, and reporting requirements across multi-stakeholder programs.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to structure and interpret portfolio data for leadership.
  • Proficient in preparing meeting notes, project summaries, and stakeholder communications.
  • Familiar with data governance and metadata practices applicable in research documentation and workflows.
  • Proficient in Microsoft tools and familiarity with project management software like Jira and data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain schedules, track milestones, and document dependencies for a large data ecosystem.
  • Coordinate working-group meetings and prepare agendas, notes, and follow-up communications.
  • Assist in the preparation and refinement of various data ecosystem artifacts and documentation.
  • Support data quality activities by organizing reviews and documenting issues and dependencies.
  • Plan stakeholder review cycles and compile feedback for governance and decision-making processes.
  • Prepare status updates, risk, issue logs, and meeting summaries for senior leadership review.
  • Maintain resources across collaboration platforms and ensure documentation is controlled and accessible.

Benefits

  • Inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
  • Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
  • Flexibility to support work-life balance.
  • Comprehensive health benefits for employees and their families.
  • Generous paid leave and holidays.
  • Wellness program and employee assistance services.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are seeking a Project Manager with approximately 3 to 5 years of experience supporting health, biomedical research, public health, federal research, or data-driven programs. This role will support day-to-day coordination of a large data ecosystem portfolio, help manage schedules and deliverables, coordinate scientific, technical, and government stakeholders, and contribute to the development of reusable data assets, metadata resources, governance workflows, platform documentation, and integration-ready data products from working-group activities through review, approval, and operational adoption.

Project Background:

The federal initiative is advancing a reusable data ecosystem that improves how biomedical and research data are defined, organized, governed, exchanged, and reused across programs, repositories, and stakeholder communities. The program applies recognized biomedical data standards, metadata practices, structured review methods, and governance processes to create durable data resources, documentation, and platform-ready artifacts for the broader research community.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support the integrated delivery plan for a large data ecosystem by maintaining schedules, tracking milestones, documenting dependencies, and helping monitor progress across workstreams against approved timelines.
  • Coordinate governance, leadership, technical, and stakeholder working-group meetings, including agenda preparation, participant scheduling, meeting notes, action-item tracking, and follow-up communications.
  • Assist with preparation and refinement of data ecosystem artifacts, including data inventories, metadata specifications, data models, governance materials, standards mappings, reference documentation, and platform-support materials under the direction of senior program and technical leads.
  • Support data quality, validation, and readiness activities by organizing review inputs, tracking open issues, documenting risks and dependencies, maintaining structured review logs, and coordinating with data, platform, repository, and technical teams.
  • Help plan stakeholder review cycles, compile feedback, maintain response trackers, and support preparation of materials for governance, decision-making, and approval processes.
  • Prepare weekly status inputs, dashboards, milestone updates, meeting summaries, and risk, issue, decision, and action logs for review by senior project leadership and client stakeholders.
  • Maintain project resources across approved collaboration platforms, including stakeholder rosters, templates, correspondence, meeting records, data-product documentation, delivery trackers, and controlled versions of project artifacts.
  • Support documentation of data lineage, provenance, version history, access considerations, integration requirements, and operational readiness so approved data products and platform artifacts can be maintained across repositories, catalogs, APIs, analytics tools, and stakeholder-facing channels.
  • Assist with orientations, demonstrations, office hours, workshops, and outreach materials for business, scientific, data, technical, and end-user stakeholder communities.
  • Serve as a dependable project coordination liaison among program leadership, product owners, data stewards, platform teams, solution architects, technical staff, business stakeholders, and client representatives, escalating complex scope, technical, governance, risk, or delivery decisions to senior leadership as appropriate.

Key Deliverables:
  • Updated milestone trackers, workstream schedules, action logs, issue logs, meeting follow-up trackers, and status-report inputs for the project.
  • Draft and reviewed program and data ecosystem support materials, including data inventory updates, metadata or data-quality review records, platform documentation inputs, validation-support notes, and repository-readiness artifacts under guidance from senior technical and program leads.
  • Meeting agendas, minutes, decision logs, stakeholder follow-up notes, and consolidated public-review feedback trackers.
  • Draft operating procedures, reusable templates, step-by-step process documentation, and program handbook inputs.
  • Assist with training materials, outreach content, dashboard inputs, and documentation packages supporting governance and repository readiness.

What the Candidate May Be Excited About:

This assignment offers the opportunity to support a nationally visible effort focused on improving how biomedical research data are organized, reviewed, shared, and reused. The candidate will work with government program leaders, scientific experts, data repositories, and standards contributors while building hands-on experience in biomedical data governance, stakeholder coordination, working-group operations, and structured program delivery.

Required Qualifications:
  • 3-5 years of experience supporting project management, program coordination, public health, biomedical research, Federal consulting, or data-driven initiatives.
  • Bachelor's degree required; master's degree in public health, health administration, data science, policy, research, or a related field preferred.
  • Experience tracking milestones, deliverables, risks, action items, meeting outcomes, and reporting requirements across multi-stakeholder programs.
  • Strong organizational and analytical skills, including the ability to clean, structure, interpret, and summarize program or portfolio data for leadership review.
  • Ability to prepare clear meeting notes, project summaries, presentations, trackers, status updates, and stakeholder communications.
  • Familiarity with data governance, metadata practices, data standards, data quality, research-data documentation, repository workflows, or comparable program documentation and review processes.
  • Proficiency with common project, data, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Planner, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Tableau, NIH portfolio or grants-management systems, or comparable platforms; experience with Power BI, Confluence, SQL, or related tools is helpful but not required.
  • Ability to engage in discussions with program, data, technical, repository, and analytics stakeholders; comfort learning technical concepts related to data review, mapping, validation, access, reporting, and operational readiness is expected.
  • Demonstrated professionalism, attention to detail, adaptability, and ability to work effectively with scientific, technical, operational, and government stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience supporting Federal biomedical research, public health, health data, or large multi-stakeholder program environments.
  • Experience supporting scientific meetings, working groups, awardee engagements, principal investigator meetings, or cross-functional stakeholder forums.
  • Working knowledge of research administration, portfolio analysis, grant lifecycle, repository, or comparable program-management systems and tools.
  • Interest in applying AI-enabled review support, data visualization, prompt engineering, or analytics techniques to improve program coordination and data-quality workflows.

Additional information

  • An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
  • Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package.
  • Flexibility to support work-life balance.
  • Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
  • Generous paid leave and holidays.
  • Wellness program and employee assistance.

Pay Range: $110,000-$150,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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