Director, Project Management

Company description

For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work.

If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people. So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat.

Overview

The ideal candidate should have experience structuring and leading complex marketing and advertising campaigns across multiple channels from strategy definition to execution, production and launch. Must have ability to seamlessly lead multidisciplinary teams—comprised of Strategy, Data, Creative, Media and Production—across parallel workstreams and drive collaboration with client and agency partners.

They will also possess a proven ability to represent the Program Management discipline with internal and senior client stakeholders and be deft at building and maintaining strong relationships with agency, client and third-party partners. They will work with these entities to proactively solve business challenges and contribute to the development of operational processes that adapt to evolving business challenges, best practices and industry standards. Previous Pharmaceutical Advertising experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Work with key account and client stakeholders to develop and instill processes, workflows and tools that support the profitable delivery of client work. Contribute to a culture of delivery efficiency and excellence with direct reports and larger Program Management department.
• Responsible for scoping and management of multiple, concurrent, large scale-projects and client engagements totaling over $10MM annually.
• Partner with Client Service and Finance leads to actively manage business challenges, client relationships, developing annual scopes and contracts, estimates and staffing plans against scoped work, and maintaining profit margin.
• Partner with Creative to effectively shepherd and manage the evolution of creative work, ensuring quality at all points from concept through delivery. Active partnership with Strategy, Data, Media, Production, and Technology departments to ensure connections and collaborations happen where they should, in support of innovative and award-winning creative ideas.
• Maintain and enforce high standards of communications and documentation, including status and financial reports, timelines, scopes, change orders, burn reports and forecasting, best practices and asset management.
• Maintain departmental values, vision, direction and responsibilities with key program stakeholders.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to continuously optimize existing operational processes and systems, ensuring buy-in and compliance with directs.
• Provide solutions-oriented leadership with a very strong ability to creatively solve complex problems with a positive, professional demeanor and a high degree of emotional intelligence.
• Work with Director-level stakeholders to manage overall client relationship and actively sell in new ideas to clients to enhance their business and grow revenue. Introduce offerings to the relationship where appropriate.
• Proactively manage, provide guidance, and develop clear communication standards around program and business-related risks, including mitigation planning and crisis management.

Qualifications

• 7 years’ experience in a creative services organization, working with high profile brands and leading senior cross-functional stakeholders including strategy, data and planning, creative, production, technology, operations, finance, and resourcing.
• Experience managing and mentoring team of Program Managers and Associate Program Managers
• Expert-level knowledge and deep experience in project management, including scoping, staffing, estimating, managing burn, and creating processes that support 360 ̊ integrated campaigns, multi-faceted engagements, and global programs.

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Teams for Collaboration and Smartsheets or similar tools for project management

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: $- $ . This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be<> .

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