Project Director - London, United Kingdom - Avalere Health

Description

About Avalere Health Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen. About the role The Project Director & Team Lead is responsible for leading our Project Management team within Global Marketing. A role that combines Project Management experience and skillsets of the highest level with the ability to lead, inspire, manage, and shape the Project Management Team. A driving force for change, you will also take a leading role on task forces focused on process innovation or system implementation, both within Global Marketing and the wider Avalere Health teams. Using your wealth of experience to support the overall success of the capability, working with the Management team to ensure overall business objectives and goals are met. As Project Director you will be responsible for delivering critical and complex programs and projects across a portfolio of Global, strategically creative, accounts. Building strong relationships with our teams, and with your clients. Always thinking one step ahead to ensure we are continually set up to deliver success, both for our clients and for our business, through expert capacity and long-term resource planning. As Project Management Team Lead, you will ensure your team is structured for success, supporting the growth and development of individuals within the team as well as shaping the overall growth of the team into the future, keeping pace with industry and technology trends and innovations.

What you'll do

Expertly drive the management of large portfolios of projects, driving the teams on status and steps ahead to ensure projects stay on track and are delivered on time and on budget

Projects including but not limited to; overall project campaign management, photo/video shoots, animations & complex digital assets

Empower and provide guidance to teams to manage projects

Facilitate and/or work closely with multi-disciplinary team members to understand the necessary steps and stages of new projects or portfolio of projects. Ensuring SOWs, costings, timelines and resourcing requirements are accurately created (and kept up to date) with a view to optimal project recoverability and profitability, as well as team utilisation and satisfaction

Develop complex (project and/or brand level) SOWs, costings, timelines and resourcing of projects with no supervision for both incumbent and new business opportunities

Support new business opportunities including developing slides, ways of working, budget development and project delivery pathways

Demonstrate ability to challenge client requests (with the client service team) where appropriate, in an effective and professional manner to champion highest quality solutions

Help monitor workflow and demonstrate understanding of project risks, alerting Directors of any short or long term needs to ensure smooth workflow - actively manage conflict and solve problems to resolve resourcing and capacity issues quickly, escalating issues to Directors appropriately

Gather and analyse data on recoverability by project and Client; with early recognition of potential changes in scope

Be involved in client procurement discussions when needed

Quickly understand new client process and ensure these are reflected in our ways of working, leading any required process change roll out

Work between departments, ensuring culture is maintained, and implementation is assured

Understand the remit of Group capabilities, fostering strong relationships and driving collaborations and inter-company working when relevant

Facilitate and manage third party vendor engagement when required

Escalation point of contact for contracts and approved supplier lists (in liaison with Creative Services Manager)

Develop excellent working relationship with legal and procurement to negotiate terms

Be a valued member of the organisational Management Team representing Project Delivery and supporting in ideating and driving through companywide initiatives that are aligned to wider business goals and objectives

Help drive a culture of improvement across the Agency, making active recommendations to evolve processes and ways of working including running project wash ups and quarterly agency retro's and identifying and bringing in external methods or ideas

Responsible for overall management of the Project Management Team including line management and supporting individual development, training and motivation of the team

Oversees and leads junior PM team on larger programmes of work

Manage resourcing team and oversee team implementing the resourcing process and cadence management

Work with Account leads to understand and allocate PM team to align with project and account needs. Monitoring PM team capacity and managing when over or under utilised

About you

Minimum 10 years of experience

Pharmaceutical industry experience, preferably within a healthcare communications agency

Passion for healthcare and communications

In depth and expert understanding of the end-to-end creative process across a wide range of project types and channels

High levels of commercial acumen and demonstrable fiscal responsibility

Understanding of IP law

Excellent interpersonal skills - clear communicator, honest and fair with colleagues

Excellent organisational skills

Organises own time to achieve deadlines, prioritises tasks within given time frames

Ability to build strong relationships

Identifies own training and development needs

Always acts with integrity

What we can offer Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare's most complex challenges. At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope. We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide. We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. We encourage all applicants to read our before applying to Avalere Health.