Freelance - Senior Project Manager - Health

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$65/hr – $80/hrSenior Level5+ years expContract

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Owns end-to-end program delivery by building plans, guiding cross-functional teams, and ensuring on-time, on-budget results with strong client satisfaction.

  • Drives project estimation, planning and profitability
  • Leads multi-disciplinary teams across locations

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Work | Deliver work that is excellent, on time, on budget AND goes beyond the brief. You will be responsible for setting up plans and processes that drive projects forward and ensure successful delivery with high client satisfaction.
  • People | Motivate, direct and challenge teams to produce great work. You will be responsible for establishing and managing cross-functional teams across different locations that are collaborative, efficient and high-functioning.
  • Process | Establish and manage program communication and process. You will be responsible for setting up appropriate structure and tools to ensure successful collaboration and engagement across agency and client teams.
  • Financials | Responsible for project estimation, planning and profitability. You will be responsible for building detailed project plans; managing resource allocations; and reporting on project status, burn rates, budgets and reconciliations to agency and client stakeholders. Track and manage Burn Rate, Resourcing Capacity and creating timelines for deliverables.
  • The ideal candidate will be an innovator who is excited to roll up their sleeves and get into the details to build processes that drive business.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on project management and program delivery experience in an advertising or marketing communications firm, ideally at for a large Health/Pharma client account.
  • Experience with HCP/DTC focused Health/Pharma Campaigns and Deliverables- this is a MUST
  • Experience with Ziflow, ProofHQ, and/or Workfront Proof
  • Have demonstrated experience with Smart sheet
  • Proven track record in driving deliverables in digital, social, print content channels.
  • Customer experience and journey mapping, do both HCP and DTC marketing experience are highly desired.
  • Good understanding of emerging web standards, user-centered design (UX/UI), optimization and search practices.
  • Experience working on large-scale integrated, omnichannel programs with multiple parallel work streams and diverse teams (UX, Tech, Strategy, Creative, Account, Research and Data) across remote offices.
  • High EQ and the ability to read what a team needs to help motivate them.
  • Self-motivated and driven to build and create great work.

Preferred

  • CRM experience helpful.
  • Customer experience and journey mapping experience for HCP and DTC marketing are highly desired.

Benefits

  • competitive benefits package.
  • WPP Benefits for more details.
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