Vice President Director, Project Managment

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

Position Summary 

The Vice President, Director is a big picture, strategic thinker who is an account team’s production lead (or multiple accounts depending on the scope and size of the accounts and agency).  The VP Director is ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. The VP, Director leads a multi-skill (ie online and offline) team of project managers that may include people at the Associate Director level. This person is experienced, works independently, and is considered an “expert” in project management by peers in other capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities 

Knowledge  

• Problem solving: Skillfully identifies and removes barriers to project success 

• Corporate leader: Visible leader of high-profile corporate initiatives  

• Strategic: Has a firm grasp on the big picture  

• PM Approach: Ensures that the project management team utilizes a flexible project management approach 

• PM Technical Skills: Solid knowledge and experience in digital and traditional production processes. Leads large teams to drive complex programs/campaigns to completion based on scope and budget. Well-versed in production needs; considered an expert in multiple channels and understands other mediums well enough to be a strategic problem solver 

• Talent Selection: Demonstrates the ability to hire and retain highly capable people while fostering diversity and career development 

• SOWs: Reviews key team SOWs to ensure accuracy  

• Growing talent: Demonstrated ability to grow and develop mid to senior level producer talent  

• Client finances: Expert-level portfolio budget management skills 

• Technology: Continuously learning technology.  Strong understanding of today’s digital technologies 

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Strategy 

• Intellectual capital: Able to turn standard project materials into high-value intellectual capital 

• Resource allocation: Reviews all projects across account to determine resource and skill requirements; drives resource allocation management; ensures the right resources are cast to the need  

• Project Plans: Accountable for account-level master project plan creation and management.  

• Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies 

• Quality Control: Structures and leads project status reviews; leads cross-team post-mortem sessions 

• Informing: Partners with account/ marketing team to provide appropriate and consistent communication directly to client(s) in an effort to clearly manage expectations 

• Risk Management: Leads large teams to develop and manage risk mitigation plans 

Tactics and Execution 

• Resources: Able to roll up resource data on large multi-lane relationships and manage increasing and decreasing resource needs 

• Agency Cost management: Vigilantly wants to increase both agency services and other departments  

• Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Collaborative partner to team capability leads 

• Management: Responsible for the career development of others 

• Execution: Prioritizes work in progress (WIP) with production and account teams to pull work forward and break bottlenecks 

• Vendors: Point of escalation for vendor management concerns 

• Scope Definition: Scopes and estimates complex, multi-channel engagements