Project Manager (Health)

Who We Are

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.

 

About VML Health:  

VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between. It operates fluidly within the VML agency, as a core group of health specialists (a ‘vertical’) that has the benefit of autonomy in management, but with support of non-health expertise.  

At the heart of health is the story of life – all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities. But facing a health challenge can suddenly pull people away from these stories, knocking them off course. 

Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning. We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals’ and patients’ needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call ‘radical empathy’. 

VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live.  Get to the heart. Connect for life. 

What We're Looking For:

Project Managers work closely with the senior team members to understand the client business model, articulate project objectives to team members and assist with ground-level project execution. The Project Manager acts as liaison between the Client Engagement team and internal VML Health stakeholders to ensure project delivery. The Project Manager works with various members of the project team, including clients, to become the master of requirements, remain constantly aware of project status, and escalate risk to senior Delivery and Client Engagement team members.

What You'll Do:

• Responsible for ground-level project execution
• Understand client business model
• Articulate project objectives to team members
• Deliver marketing tactics that exceed expectations
• Schedule and run meetings with internal team members
• Identify resourcing needs and work with Resource Management to secure team members
• Act as an internal liaison that reinforces client/project priorities, clarifies requirements, and solves for identified cross-discipline gaps
• Support the team in driving internal and external communications (scheduling meetings, compiling/distributing notes, tracking action items, ensure follow-through on intermediate and milestone deliverables, etc.)
• Maintain project momentum and keeps project and team on track
• Catalog and maintain all project documentation and deliverables
• Become well-versed in and clearly explain necessary project processes/workflows, including becoming experts in any client-specific processes, related to the legal/medical/regulatory reviews or similar
• Coordinate and/or author points of view as required by a project

Who You Are and What You Bring:

• 2+ years of agency and/or client-side experience managing large-scale marketing projects
• Excellent communication skills; creates clarity where there is ambiguity/confusion
• Strong organization skills
• Attention to detail, willingness to ask questions and ability to follow up
• Embraces change
• Passion for learning
• Proactive, adaptable, and flexible
• Ability to follow direction
• Understanding of waterfall methodologies