Associate Director, Project Management
Job Summary
The Associate Director, Project Management is energetic and committed to holistically managing multiple direct reports as well as multiple brands across multiple clients. This person is the problem-solving partner to the cross-functional leads for all things logistical, leading the agency team to meet its deliverables with both decisiveness and confidence. The Associate Director of Project Management plays an important proactive role in helping to identify and manage project risks and is accountable for ensuring that their team is successfully managing multichannel deliverables that are on time, on budget, and on strategy.
Key Job Responsibilities
Partners with cross-functional leads to continually evaluate agency processes and procedures to ensure efficiencies are being identified and implemented
Acts as the owner of Calcium+Company process, ensures the team adheres to the proper process
Develops, manages, and supports client relationships with key accounts as assigned; identifies value-added opportunities to strengthen client/agency partnerships
Helps manage new business efforts with internal leadership team
Ensures a profitable model on their books of business and can properly diagnose budget concerns for a wide variety of projects
Manages costs and timelines across a portfolio of projects
Can navigate complex scoping and pricing discussions with clients
Partners with internal stakeholders on the development of yearly statements of work (SOWs)
Serves a key stakeholder and leader in assuring that weekly internal brand financial meetings are taking place
Works in tandem with Financial and Account Services counterparts to ensure tactics are being managed to approved estimates
Ensures that direct reports are managing and leading in the same way across the brands they service
Leads counterparts in reviewing and communicating actuals versus estimates to broader core team members to effectively manage profitability of specified tactics
Partners with the Director of Project Management to continually assess operational resources and ensure they are deployed and leveraged to meet brand needs (ie, balanced workloads, talent to task, etc)
Actively manages resource allocation with internal teams by identifying resource gaps and working to proactively fill them with internal resources and/or resources to be identified
Acts as a conduit for a productive culture and drives a positive team morale
Manages the work and performance of direct reports; serves as a mentor and coach
Authors and delivers reviews of direct reports, helping them set appropriate goals
Job Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required
Must have 7+ years of experience in the advertising industry (pharmaceutical preferred)
Must have supervisory experience
Possesses excellent leadership and communication skills
Expert in PM best practices, including methodologies, risk identification, and mitigation approaches
Product launch, med/legal, and FDA 2253/OPDP submission experience
Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint; Acrobat Professional; web-based routing and project management system administration
Can mindfully manage deadlines, multiple tasks, and challenges