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?

Job Summary: 

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

The Senior Project Manager is ultimately responsible for excellent delivery on their assigned piece of business; the primary scope of work will be the delivery of publication plans, manuscripts, abstracts, and posters.This role will work closely with our Medical Affairs team and 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 as well as the publication development process and compliance guidelines including ICMJE and GPP. Whether it’s involving the correct resources from each department at the optimal time, ensuring priorities are managed in alignment with account, or 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 publication projects, both strategic and tactical, with minimal oversight 

• 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 up-to-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 

• Ensures that teams are staying within timelines and scoped hours  

• Ensures client objectives/guidelines are clearly defined, deliverables are also adequately informed by project brief and client feedback is clearly actionable and routed to the internal team in a timely manner 

• 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)