Director, Project Management

Inizio Evoke • Chicago, IL

9h • Remote

About The Position

At Inizio Evoke, we come together—to do the best work, in the best possible place. We're all in. Because it's everyone's role to make health more human™. Inizio Evoke Drive is a full-service agency with 25 years of history supporting pharmaceutical and life science clients in optimizing patient outcomes through behavioral science, applying a unique combination of behavior-change strategies, compelling creative, and purposeful use of technology to shift behaviors in target audiences. The Director, Project Management is a leadership position that oversees a business unit consisting of multiple new/existing agency accounts. This role is for a seasoned project management professional, comfortable working with both steady brands in maintenance mode and brands preparing for complex launches. The Director will provide a point of escalation across multiple project teams, ensuring delivery and operational excellence while supporting agency and department growth initiatives. This is a remote role reporting to the VP of Project Management.

Requirements

• 10+ years project management experience
• 8+ years of agency experience
• Pharmaceutical marketing agency experience required
• Bachelor's degree (BA)
• Experience managing large cross-functional teams including but not limited to account services, creative, strategy, production, media, analytics, omnichannel and tech
• Experience working with multiple vendors and agency partners
• Experience onboarding, training and managing multiple team members
• Advanced experience with financial management
• Advanced experience developing scopes, staffing, and project plans
• Advanced experience using Project Management software

Nice To Haves

• AOR experience preferred
• PMP a plus

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct PM team in management of complex, multi-team, multi-vendor, and multi-project programs including the development of detailed scopes, estimates and project plans
• Partner with Senior cross-functional leads on account-level initiatives to drive the business forward
• Proactively identify optimizations and opportunities to adjust process (both internally and externally)
• Develop key operational tools, participating in (often leading) department initiatives to improve and streamline internal process, workflows, and trainings
• Participate in brand planning efforts, able to visualize and speak to execution at high-level
• Participate in Business Development efforts and present workflow, process, and pricing in pitches as necessary
• Provide oversight to all financial reporting efforts: weekly burn reviews, monthly internal and client reconciliation, monthly accruals and forecasting, and play a key role in estimate and scope development/reviews
• Identify opportunities to streamline or optimize agency pricing, work with PM leadership and operations to identify vendors that can contribute to better pricing or profits
• Understand the appropriate staffing for an account, both in quantity and talent-to-task and can recommend staffing changes within department to address individual account needs
• Ensure all scoped work can be completed, participating in regular resourcing meetings
• Identify new or upcoming workstreams that will require a different model or additional resource support
• Responsible for the oversight, growth, and development of Senior PMs, Team Leads, and Associate Directors - structure will vary by account
• Participate in recruiting efforts, interviewing new PM resources and potential cross-functional team members
• Provide onboarding and training of new PM team members

Benefits

• exciting and flexible work environment
• great compensation packages
• outstanding company paid benefits including medical, dental, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and flexible time off
• exceptional range of flexible benefits
• personal support
• tailored learning and development opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director