Senior Project Manager

Working at Real Chemistry and in the healthcare industry isn’t just a job for us. We got into this field for different reasons, but we all stay for the same reason – to uncover insights, make meaningful connections, infuse creativity, and improve the patient experience by transforming healthcare through AI and ideas.

Real Chemistry creates the world around modern therapies with over 2,000 talented professionals, and for the last 20+ years has, carved out its space at the intersection between healthcare, marketing and communications, data & AI, and the people at the heart of it all. We work with the top 30 pharma and biotech companies and are built for uncommon collaboration—we believe we are best together, bring together experts from a wide range of disciplines collaborate without barriers under a single, unified mission: to transform what healthcare is to what it should be. This one-of-a-kind model allows us to work in a way that better reflects how people experience healthcare—all with the intent to transform healthcare from what it is to what it should be. But we can’t do it alone – you in?

Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our growing team!  

Senior Project Managers are great communicators and motivators with an innate ability to “get things done.” As a result, they wear many hats. The Senior Project Manager manages all aspects of the project life cycle from concept to delivery and must be intimately familiar with the roles played by Design, Copywriting, Studio, Print Production, Editorial, User Experience, Technology, and Quality Assurance. They have experience moving projects through all internal agency departments and roles, ensuring the proper reviews and approvals at appropriate stages. They have experience with MLR Consult and Formal submission platforms, MLR requirements, and timing. Whether it’s guiding the team to being able to execute creative concepts, partnering with resource management to ensure the correct resources are optimally used, forecasted and managed, identifying bottlenecks and proposing solutions ahead of time, the only thing that is certain is that no one day is ever the same.

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

What you’ll do: 
•    Manages day-to-day workflow for multiple projects with minimal oversight
•    Manages larger-scale project(s) inclusive of more complex digital deliverables and/or integrated initiatives
•    Understands project interdependencies and can identify, address and carry through inputs and information from one project across all other projects within the program
•    Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of internal processes such as maintaining upto-date hot sheets and status reports, project burn, lifecycle of a job
•    Effectively communicates expectations to internal teams and vendors to facilitate the efficient flow of associated work throughout the agency
•    Recognizes project risks, manages & mediates projects issues, and can develop solutions with confidence
•    Ability to create project estimates and validate them with internal team
•    Reviews burn reports on a weekly basis and can analyze the information and report it back to account and team 
•    Identify when scope change is needed, initiate scope change and facilitate the process through to completion with account
•    Partner closely with the Account team during the project planning, execution and production phases. 
•    Interface with key agency teams to ensure they’re on track to meet the agreed upon milestones (Account, Creative, Studio, Editorial, Print Production, Strategic Planning, Information UX, Technology, Programmers)
•    Provide necessary direction and support to the team on the tasks and deliverables required
•    Responsible for leading the following meetings: hotsheet, weekly internal status, project briefings, internal creative reviews, and meetings with external vendors
•    Route deliverables to the appropriate core team members for review/sign off via electronic project routing system. Ensure signoff prior to key junctures, (brand team review, MLR review, disk release, asset handoff to vendor, etc.)
•    Enforce agency process and manage the quality assurance (QA) phase for all projects

This position is a perfect fit for you if: 
•    Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you. 
•    You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving. 
•    You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data. <