Freelance - Senior Project Manager - Health

About the Position

Freelance - Senior Project Manager - Health

Responsibilities

• Work: Deliver excellent work on time and on budget, going beyond the brief. Set up plans and processes that drive projects forward and ensure successful delivery with high client satisfaction.
• People: Motivate, direct, and challenge teams to produce great work. Establish and manage cross-functional teams across different locations that are collaborative, efficient, and high-functioning.
• Process: Establish and manage program communication and process. Set up appropriate structure and tools to ensure successful collaboration and engagement across agency and client teams.
• Financials: Responsible for project estimation, planning, and profitability. Build detailed project plans, manage resource allocations, and report on project status, burn rates, budgets, and reconciliations to agency and client stakeholders. Track and manage Burn Rate, Resourcing Capacity, and create timelines for deliverables.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on project management and program delivery experience in an advertising or marketing communications firm, ideally for a large Health/Pharma client account.
• Skills:
  • Experience with HCP/DTC focused Health/Pharma Campaigns and Deliverables (MUST)
  • Experience with Ziflow, ProofHQ, and/or Workfront Proof
  • Demonstrated experience with Smartsheet
  • Proven track record in driving deliverables in digital, social, print content channels
  • Customer experience and journey mapping for both HCP and DTC marketing experience are highly desired
• Knowledge: Good understanding of emerging web standards, user-centered design (UX/UI), optimization, and search practices.
• Teamwork: Experience working on large-scale integrated, omnichannel programs with multiple parallel work streams and diverse teams (UX, Tech, Strategy, Creative, Account, Research, and Data) across remote offices.
• Personality: High EQ and the ability to read what a team needs to help motivate them. Self-motivated and driven to build and create great work.

We Offer

• Compensation: $65-$80 USD per hour
• Work Environment: Hybrid approach, with teams in the office an average of four days a week.
• Benefits: Competitive benefits package. Click WPP Benefits for more details.

About the Company

VML is a global creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth. Guided by a Human First philosophy, VML is known for its innovative work for brands and consistently ranks among the world’s leading creative companies, including the WARC Creative 100. VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore.

VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions, and expert strategic counsel.

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