Publications Project Manager

Lockwood provides medical communications services to pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients. The Publications Project Manager manages publications projects from inception to completion, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, budgets, suppliers, timelines, and client and faculty relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and faculty members
• Maintain and manage timely and professional written and verbal communications with clients and faculty members
• Ensure client expectations are met on all levels of program activity
• Establish and maintain a strong knowledge of client organizations, products, disease states, and publications
• Develop new project budgets
• Contribute to new business development activities within the account team
• Manage budgeting, financial monitoring, and reconciliation of individual projects
• Schedule and conduct start-up, interim, and final team meetings for each project, establish and maintain time and events schedules, and provide ongoing updates to client and team as required by account team on each initiative to ensure successful management and completion
• Facilitate progress of multidisciplinary project teams to ensure within-budget, on-time, on-strategy performance
• Own the detail of daily account work on each project
• Oversee and facilitate development of all project activities
• Assist in training new account team members as required
• Maintain company policies as they pertain to all activities
• Adhere to all Lockwood Group policies and standard operating procedures

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator with experience successfully leading multidisciplinary teams
• We are seeking individuals with strong financial management skills
• who are highly organized, adept at multitasking/prioritizing, and have the ability and willingness to motivate others
• A bachelor's degree is required
• Three to five years of relevant project management experience in a publications environment is required
• Ability to grasp and retain scientific information
• Strong technical aptitude and working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Must have experience with publication management platforms, such as iEnvision/Datavision and PubStrat