21GRAMS- Senior Project Manager

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

21GRAMS, part of Real Chemistry, takes an innovative approach to advertising, focusing on making healthcare more human—not just in our work, but in the way we conduct business, approach client relationships, and treat each other. It’s a place where people subscribe to the adage, “Be good to each other, but hard on the work.”

About the role

The Senior Project Manager leads complex, integrated initiatives across channels and provides day-to-day leadership for the project team. This role balances hands-on delivery with mentoring and process stewardship. This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, Lambertville, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of integrated campaigns that span digital, print, events, and video.
• Develop detailed Gantts and critical paths across multiple deliverables and vendors.
• Anticipate risks, propose solutions, and manage change control to protect scope, timing, and margin.
• Mentor and coach Project Managers and Coordinators. Model best practices and documentation hygiene.
• Partner with Account to align execution to strategy and client expectations.
• Own forecasting inputs and invoice readiness in collaboration with Finance.
• Portfolio Management: Oversight of approximately 5 million dollars in revenue. Administrative involvement in new business and shadowing scoping.
• Resource Management: Own staff plan rollup inputs and updates. Plan and communicate resourcing needs. Develop brand Gantts and coordinate sequencing across workstreams.
• Client And Vendor Relationship Management: Active in client communications for delivery topics. Own vendor relationships for assigned brands.
• Training, Growth, Reporting: Manage team best practices, process reference documents, and onboarding tools. Shadow leadership to gain foundational management skills.
• Admin Operations: Own day-to-day task management within Workfront and Teams. Ensure program compliance across all teams on the brand.
• Execution: Think strategically at the brand level. Identify overlaps and staggering opportunities. Drive process improvements and QA across deliverables.
• Finance: Create scopes and change orders. Review estimates. Analyze brand-level finances, forecast, and support invoicing. Speak to finances with clients.
• Culture, Comms And Collaboration: Build morale. Investigate and analyze issues. Gather the right collaborators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Expert knowledge of digital and print production workflows.
• Strong skills in scoping, budgeting, resource planning, and risk management.
• Excellent client-facing communication and presentation skills.
• 5 or more years of project management experience in healthcare communications.
• Prior mentoring or supervisory experience.
• Adaptable, resilient, and comfortable adjusting scope, responsibilities, and focus as the company grows.
• Proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into data.
• Highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.
• Alignment with company values: Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always, and Accountability with an “I”.

Pay

The anticipated salary range for this position is $100,000–$120,000. Compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal parity.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including private medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous holiday and paid time off.
• Support for saving for the future (e.g., retirement plans).
• Mental wellness coaching and support.
• Access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.
• Free snacks in key office markets.
• Great Place to Work® certified culture with a focus on employee well-being, growth, and success.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role. For employees located within a one-hour commute of a Real Chemistry office, in-person attendance is required two days per week, either from a Real Chemistry office or when working onsite with clients. Employees in regions without a nearby office may work remotely and come together throughout the year for collaboration, culture-building, learning, and team connection opportunities.