Project Manager (Health)

VML • Kansas City, MO

10d • $45,000 - $100,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML Health is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML Health is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between. At the heart of health is the story of life – all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities. But facing a health challenge can suddenly pull people away from these stories, knocking them off course. Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning. We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals’ and patients’ needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call ‘radical empathy’. VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live. Project Managers work closely with the senior team members to understand the client business model, articulate project objectives to team members and assist with ground-level project execution. The Project Manager acts as liaison between the Client Engagement team and internal VML Health stakeholders to ensure project delivery. The Project Manager works with various members of the project team, including clients, to become the master of requirements, remain constantly aware of project status, and escalate risk to senior Delivery and Client Engagement team members.

Requirements

• 2+ years of agency and/or client-side experience managing large-scale marketing projects
• Excellent communication skills; creates clarity where there is ambiguity/confusion
• Strong organization skills
• Attention to detail, willingness to ask questions and ability to follow up
• Embraces change
• Passion for learning
• Proactive, adaptable, and flexible
• Ability to follow direction
• Understanding of waterfall methodologies
• Proven experience in project management within a marketing agency, with a focus on healthcare clients.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and teams effectively.
• Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ground-level project execution
• Understand client business model
• Articulate project objectives to team members
• Deliver marketing tactics that exceed expectations
• Schedule and run meetings with internal team members
• Identify resourcing needs and work with Resource Management to secure team members
• Act as an internal liaison that reinforces client/project priorities, clarifies requirements, and solves for identified cross-discipline gaps
• Support the team in driving internal and external communications (scheduling meetings, compiling/distributing notes, tracking action items, ensure follow-through on intermediate and milestone deliverables, etc.)
• Maintain project momentum and keeps project and team on track
• Catalog and maintain all project documentation and deliverables
• Become well-versed in and clearly explain necessary project processes/workflows, including becoming experts in any client-specific processes, related to the legal/medical/regulatory reviews or similar
• Coordinate and/or author points of view as required by a project

Benefits

• Full spectrum of group health coverage options (medical, dental, vision)
• Generous 401k match (100% dollar-for-dollar match, up to 5% of salary contribution)
• Variety of paid time off offerings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed