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; they will own print projects and smaller digital initiatives. Senior Project Managers are both accountable to and responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects. This individual takes projects from the initiating phase through final closing, which includes the planning, coordination, creation, and launch of project deliverables. The Senior Project Manager serves as a main point of contact for those projects and will work with the Account Manager to communicate and facilitate a strategically aligned implementation plan across multiple internal and external cross-functional teams. He or she will also define project scope and objectives and develop detailed project budgets, work plans, schedules, and status reports. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for ongoing budget management, including revenue recognition and client invoicing activities. This role is also responsible for conducting project meetings and ensuring adherence to quality standards. He or she is fully accountable for the team’s commitment to delivering the highest quality work, on time and on budget, to meet and ultimately exceed our client’s expectations. Great communicators and motivators with an innate ability to “get things done.” As a result, they wear many hats. This role 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 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: 

• Serve as expert in defining project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, during project initiation 

• Monitor assigned projects, and other related projects within book of business, for timeline and resource crossover risk 

• Provide coaching/mentoring/training regarding project management to other team members in the discipline  

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