Director, Project Management

Company Description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

Job Description

The Director is an account team’s production lead! Manage the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet our requirements, and balance client and agency economics. You will lead a multi-skill (i.e. online and offline) team of project managers. You will oversee project definition, scope monitoring, budgeting & timing at the account level. Career-manages a team of direct reports. 

 

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

 

Main Responsibilities: 

Knowledge 

• PM Approach: Ensures that the Project Management team uses a flexible Project Management approach 
• PM Technical Skills: Leads large teams to bring complex programs/campaigns to completion based on scope and budget. Well-versed in production needs; considered a specialist in multiple channels and understands other mediums well enough to be a strategic problem solver 
• Talent Selection: Shows the ability to hire and retain capable people while promoting diversity and career development 
• SOWs: Accountable for the accuracy of all team SOWs 
• Problem Solving: Team’s chief problem solver and talent choreographer 
• Agency process: Develops important operational tools (i.e. team or brand specific processes) 
• Growing Talent: Grow mid-level producer talent; able to handle performance issues 
• Client finances: Collaborates (with Business Manager if available) to provide accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects 
• Technology: Learning technology, advanced Microsoft Project and Excel ability. Experience with today’s digital technologies 

 

Strategy 

• Resource allocation: Reviews all projects across account to resolve resource and skill requirements; drives resource allocation management; ensures the right resources are cast to the need 
• Project Plans: Accountable for account-level master project plan creation and management. 
• Process improvement: Proactively sees opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies 
• Quality Control: Structures and leads project status reviews; leads cross-team post-mortem sessions 
• Advising: Partners with account/ marketing team to provide appropriate and consistent communication directly to client(s) in an effort to clearly manage expectations 
• Risk Management: Leads large teams to develop and manage risk mitigation plans 

 

Tactics and Execution 

• Agency Cost Management: Vigilantly seeks to optimize both agency services and internal resources 
• Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Collaborative business partner to team capability leads 
• Management: Responsible for the career development of others 
• Execution: Prioritizes work in progress (WIP) with production and account teams to pull work forward and break bottlenecks 
• Vendors: Point of escalation for vendor management concerns 
• Scope Definition: Scopes and estimates complex, multi-channel engagements 

 

Client Relationship 

• Relationship: Client-facing lead on issues related to production and Project Management 
• Client knowledge: Understands the client’s business and plans projects accordingly 
• Passion: Demonstrates passion for the brands and our work 
• Accountability: Owns vendor/partner relationships 
• Problem Solving: Able to drive difficult or complex production discussions with client and facilitate resolution 
• New Business: Production lead on new business pitches; identifies upsell opportunities 
• Communication and Writing: Uses advanced interpersonal and listening skills. Solid written and presentation skills 

Qualifications

• Professional presentation and client facing skills 
• Dynamic negotiation and conflict management skills 
• Advanced in Microsoft Office including Excel and Microsoft Project 
• Wide-ranging knowledge of digital 
• Knowledge of healthcare is a strong plus 
• Exhibits Integrity and Trust 
• Exhibits Self Development 

 

Education and Experience 

• Bachelors degree required 
• Demonstrates progression in level of responsibility within a professional Project Management environment 
• Agency or digital project experience required 
• Healthcare experience strongly preferred 

• Outstanding planning, coordination, management, and communication skills are required 
• Experience with risk management, change management, communications management 

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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.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.