Senior Project Manager - Medical Communications (Publications)

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity,  SenseMaking allows us to  transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

About the role

The Medical Senior Project Manager (SPM) works with a high degree of self-sufficiency on more complex projects/large accounts. They deliver projects for assigned accounts through proactive project management. Projects should be delivered to budget, schedule, agreed specification, meeting Avalere Health KPIs whilst achieving client objectives and surpassing their expectations.

The Senior Project Manager role is client facing and serves as primary project contact for clients and other support agencies, including logistics agencies, audiovisual technicians, etc. The Senior Project Manager actively drives timelines and acts as an internal information hub for the account. They should lead client project status calls and internal status meetings and regularly communicate with and update other team members whilst flagging any concerns in a timely manner.

Senior Project Managers should communicate confidently on core tasks, have comprehensive understanding of project management processes, Avalere Health KPIs, strong financial management skills and NetSuite functionality. Commensurate with their experience, they may mentor Project Coordinators, Associate Project Managers or Project Managers but this is not a prerequisite.

They must develop effective working relationships with Client Service and Editorial leads to meet team objectives and support the team by liaising with internal stakeholders to prioritise workload, participating in team meetings and brainstorms, providing project feedback and input into action plans as required.. 

• Manage all aspects of assigned projects from a project management and financial perspective, ensuring successful planning, management, execution and outcome
• Ensure both external and internal stakeholders are kept informed and regularly updated on project progress with any concerns being flagged to appropriate department leads in a timely manner
• Actively drive timelines and act as an internal information hub for the account
• Actively manage project finances to achieve Avalere Health KPIs and proactively discuss any corrective courses of action with client and internal team
• Where possible identify, and generate, opportunities with existing and new accounts. 

• The range of tasks which a SPM may be asked to do includes but is not limited to:
• budget development and reconciliation
• updating PM tools and running regular reports
• reviewing project management processes and finding ways to resolve
• timeline/schedule development and updating
• providing internal and external financial information
• invoicing clients; tracking and phasing projects
• traffic management; updating status sheets
• driving internal and client status calls
• mentoring and guiding best practice
• providing project feedback and input to action plans.

• Demonstrating a minimum of 4+ years of experience in project management, preferably within a Medical Communications agency.
• Experience working on a Global Publications account is highly preferred

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. 

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