Senior Project Manager

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

Job Description

The Senior Project Manager leads the production of multi-channel projects of large size or complexity, and manage the delivery of high quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet our requirements, and balance client and agency economics. Career manages at least one person.  

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Your Impact:

• PM Technical Skills: Proficient in project managing through a flexible approach. Well-versed in production needs; considered an expert in at least one channel (interactive/digital, print, or video) but understands other mediums well enough to be a strategic problem solver   
• SOWs: Prepares complex statements of work, with quick turnaround time and minimal revisions. Creates statement of work documentation; accountable for top-down and bottom-up budgets to ensure scopes reflect required work effort   
• Client finances: Calculates cost-to-complete estimates   
• Thought process: Expresses critical thinking skills   
• Technology: Learning technology and ability to quickly adapt to new technologies   
• Agency process: Advocate and champion of agency processes. Define team process, communication plan and rules of engagement and manage team adherence  

Strategy   

• Creativity: Finds creative alternative solutions to resource and time constraints   
• Project Plans: Creates and manages master project plans and timelines through a cross-capability collaborative approach   
• Quality Control: Ensures team adherence to QC plan   
• Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies. Identify opportunities to improve processes and to create efficiencies and suggests alternative solutions   
• Trouble shoot: Solution oriented. Brings problems with potential solutions to the attention of management.   
• Conflict resolution: Arbitrates team conflicts and facilitates cross-capability solutions   
• Resource allocation: Leads resource allocation discussions on the project-level with cross-capability team   
• Collaboration: Keeps team informed of changes. Communicates clearly and frequently. Lead team communication plan; monitor and adjust to ensure effective and efficient communication.   
• Project risk: Mitigates risk by identifying quality, budget, and timeline impacts   

Tactics and Execution   

• Finances: Responsible for cost management across portfolio of projects. Provide accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects   
• Conflict resolution: Contributes to conflict resolution across channels   
• Resources: Leads resource planning   
• Vendors: Manages 3rd party vendor engagement   
• Execution: Manages production of engagements from award to completion   
• Change process: Manages change request process, identifying and documenting changes in scope   
• Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Positive influence within department. Develop and positive working relationships with other departments/ stakeholders   
• Management: Mentors and directs the activity of one or more Associates or Senior Associates   
• Culture: Promotes and contributes to business unit’s culture and environment   
• Onboarding: On boards new team members to the brand/ agency process   

Client Relationship   

• Problem solving: Confident problem solver; willing to have difficult conversations   
• Relationship: Engages with client procurement staff. Build partnership and credibility with cli