Project Manager – Pharma

Company Description

Publicis is an omni-channel communications agency with over 600 employees across our Canadian operations. The office is the largest in our industry in Canada and boasts talent across various disciplines of marketing and advertising expertise. Publicis carries a balanced split of Canadian, U.S. and Global clients for which we are Agency of Record. Publicis supports a range of D&I actions through our Driving Change team as well as giving back to the community through a long-standing participation in the Out of the Cold Program. With a strong, active and familial culture, Pub United is the agency’s social club, hosting events as wide reaching as Curling, Trivia Nights and more.

Overview

We’re searching for a Project Manager with 2+ years in a PM role in an agency environment with a focus on pharma advertising as this role aligns to a leading BioPharma Client. This is an exciting opportunity to join the growing team at Publicis Health Toronto (PHT).

The Project Manager will have a strong understanding of the creative process from brief though to production, to ensure projects are executed on time and on budget. Working closely with agency partner leads within a Production environment, the project manager will help lead project schedules, resources and workflows on a variety of projects; banners, social ads, website, emails, and print materials. The project manager will focus on the end-to-end project workflow, the delivery of high quality and efficient work, while mitigating risks and working quickly to resolve any issues that arise.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand clients’ and project business goals and objectives
• Identify project deliverables and manage all aspects of the project including a) planning, estimation and scoping, b) schedule, c) risks, and d) resources
• Develop and maintain project plans, detailed timelines, statements of works and change requests
• Proactively manage shared resources with resource manager to ensure project completion. This includes internal teams and freelancers as well as external vendors
• Ensure the success of each project from initial approach to project close, applying project lifecycle methodologies that best suit the work at hand
• Engage agency departments from client service, strategy, creative, MedReg, development, quality assurance, and others to most effectively contribute to the project deliverables
• Manage changes effectively throughout project delivery
• Track and control project progress (activities, milestones, deliverables) and estimation/re-estimation work as necessary

Qualifications

2-3 years of experience working as a project manager in an agency environment with a focus on managing digital and/or traditional advertising projects (Pharma advertising is nice to have but must have agency experience)

• Financially competent with a demonstrated ability to plan and deliver projects within deadlines and against budgets.
• Solid understanding of processes and agency functions.
• Knowledge of project, task and knowledge management tools, ie. MS Project/Smartsheets, JIRA, Confluence.
• Enthusiastic participant in the digital / interactive space, with a keen ability to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.

Additional Information

Publicis Canada is committed to building a diverse workforce representative of our community. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply. If you require a specific accommodation please contact Human Resources.

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