Senior Project Manager

Our Purpose

We’re a full-service agency dedicated to patients and marketing health brands. Our purpose is to make patients better—better communicators with their doctors, better managers of their treatments, and better advocates for their health. Since we opened our doors in 2000 as CDMiConnect, we have always put patients first. Now, as Patients & Purpose, we’re proud to put them in our name.

Our People Make The Place
There’s a real sense of community and chemistry here. Our people are a little bit nicer, friendlier, and more collaborative. We genuinely enjoy what we do, and we come together to make a difference in patients’ lives. From new hire happy hours to seasonal events like our summer party, we’re a group that knows how to have work hard and have fun. 

What You’ll Accomplish

The Senior Project Manager (SPM) is responsible for managing comprehensive project scopes and project plans while overseeing the execution of multiple digital projects on behalf of the client(s). He/She may work on multiple brands and will provide supervision and guidance to junior team members.

How You’ll Do It

• Liaise with cross-functional team of Account Executives, Copywriters, Art Directors, Developers and Coordinators to fulfill client requests and expectations
• Communicate regularly with clients on all key issues and project deliverables
• Develop project estimates and project plans and oversee work produced by junior team
• Prepare comprehensive project scopes (deliverables, schedules, budgets, etc.)
• Develop critical issues documents; update and change as needed, communicate changes to the brand team
• Ensure project status meetings happen regularly
• Prepare billing and forecast income
• Prepare functional specifications with project developers
• Provide Client(s) with all production schedules and critical milestones
• Mentor, coach and develop direct report(s) by creating individual development plans, providing on the job learning and ensuring attendance at relevant SSCGU courses
• Lead complex projects (e.g. website redesigns) with minimal to no supervisions
• Act in Account’s place if needed for simpler tasks such as leading client status meetings
• Participate in all management courses offered by SSCGU, as assigned
• Support and/or lead team or agency initiatives as assigned

What You’ll Need to Do It

• Bachelor’s degree with 3 to 5 years of interactive project management experience in an advertising agency or similar environment
• Pharmaceutical advertising agency experience preferred, not required
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working on digital projects or digitally focused accounts
• Solid understanding of interactive mediums such as responsive websites, banners, social media etc.
• Strong understanding of development technologies and quality assurance processes
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong presentation skills; able to present ideas to brand teams
• Previous experience managing one or more direct reports
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including MS Project
• In person client travel is required

Where You’ll Go

The Senior Project Manager role provides an opportunity to develop deep technical knowledge and financial management skills. You begin to become interchangeable with your account partner and take on more client facing responsibilities. You will develop strong relationships with other brand department leads as well as mentoring the junior PM team members. You will flag issues proactively and understand when senior project management leadership needs to be brought in. Mastering SPM responsibilities prepares you to become a Group Project Supervisor.

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.