Project Manager - Medical Communications

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and faculty members
• Maintain and manage timely and professional written and verbal communications with clients and faculty members
• Ensure client expectations are met on all levels of program activity
• Establish and maintain a strong knowledge of client organizations, products, disease states, and medical education
• Contribute to new business development activities within the account team
• Manage budgeting, financial monitoring, and reconciliation of individual projects
• Schedule and conduct start-up, interim, and final team meetings for each project, establish and maintain time and events schedules, and provide ongoing updates to client and team as required by account team on each initiative to ensure successful management and completion
• Facilitate progress of multidisciplinary project teams to ensure within-budget, on-time, on-strategy performance
• Own the detail of daily account work on each project
• Oversee and facilitate development of all project activities, including faculty recruitment and ongoing communication, audience generation, content development, logistics management, registration/participant communication, production of materials, supplier performance, central file management
• Assist in training new account team members as required
• Maintain company policies as they pertain to all activities
• Adhere to all Lockwood Group policies and standard operating procedures

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree is required.
• Three to five years of relevant project management experience in a healthcare communications environment is required.
• Previous experience working in medical affairs tactics is required.
• Candidates must have the ability to grasp and retain scientific information.
• Strong technical aptitude and working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator with experience successfully leading multidisciplinary teams. We are seeking individuals with strong financial management skills who are highly organized, adept at multitasking/prioritizing, and have the ability and willingness to motivate others.