Director, Project Management

Inizio Evoke is a full-service agency with a rich history of supporting pharmaceutical and life science clients. The Director, Project Management is a leadership role responsible for overseeing multiple agency accounts, managing complex programs, and ensuring operational excellence while supporting growth initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and direct PM team in management of complex, multi-team, multi-vendor, and multi-project programs including the development of detailed scopes, estimates and project plans
• Partner with Senior cross-functional leads on account-level initiatives to drive the business forward
• Proactively identify optimizations and opportunities to adjust process (both internally and externally)
• Develop key operational tools, participating in (often leading) department initiatives to improve and streamline internal process, workflows, and trainings
• Participate in brand planning efforts, able to visualize and speak to execution at high-level
• Participate in Business Development efforts and present workflow, process, and pricing in pitches as necessary
• Provide oversight to all financial reporting efforts: weekly burn reviews, monthly internal and client reconciliation, monthly accruals and forecasting, and play a key role in estimate and scope development/reviews
• Identify opportunities to streamline or optimize agency pricing, work with PM leadership and operations to identify vendors that can contribute to better pricing or profits
• Understand the appropriate staffing for an account, both in quantity and talent-to-task and can recommend staffing changes within department to address individual account needs
• Ensure all scoped work can be completed, participating in regular resourcing meetings
• Identify new or upcoming workstreams that will require a different model or additional resource support
• Responsible for the oversight, growth, and development of Senior PMs, Team Leads, and Associate Directors - structure will vary by account
• Participate in recruiting efforts, interviewing new PM resources and potential cross-functional team members
• Provide onboarding and training of new PM team members

Requirements:

• 10+ years project management experience
• 8+ years of agency experience
• Pharmaceutical marketing agency experience required
• Bachelor's degree (BA)
• Experience managing large cross-functional teams including but not limited to account services, creative, strategy, production, media, analytics, omnichannel and tech
• Experience working with multiple vendors and agency partners
• Experience onboarding, training and managing multiple team members
• Advanced experience with financial management
• Advanced experience developing scopes, staffing, and project plans
• Advanced experience using Project Management software
• AOR experience preferred
• PMP a plus