Senior Project Manager

Real Chemistry • New York, NY

13d • $100,000 - $130,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities. Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience #LifeatRealChem. Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our growing team! 21GRAMS, part of Real Chemistry, takes an innovative approach to advertising, and focusing on making healthcare more human. Not just in our work, but in the way we conduct business, approach client relationships, and treat each other. It’s a place where people subscribe to the adage, “Be good to each other, but hard on the work.” A place where people are not just in it for the paycheck, but to make a dent in the universe. Sound like you? At 21GRAMS, we set the benchmark for excellence in healthcare project management. As trusted leaders, we build confidence through teamwork, ownership, and proactive risk management. We uphold our processes with accountability, deliver with precision, and communicate with clarity. Creative problem-solving, adaptability, and integrity define our work. Guided by purpose and collaboration, we inspire our teams to achieve best-in-class outcomes for every project. The Senior Project Manager leads complex, integrated initiatives across channels and provides day-to-day leadership for the project team. This role balances hands-on delivery with mentoring and process stewardship. This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, Lambertville, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Expert knowledge of digital and print production workflows.
• Strong skills in scoping, budgeting, resource planning, and risk management.
• Excellent client-facing communication and presentation skills.
• 5 or more years of project management experience in healthcare communications.
• Prior mentoring or supervisory experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of integrated campaigns that span digital, print, events, and video.
• Develop detailed Gantts and critical paths across multiple deliverables and vendors.
• Anticipate risks, propose solutions, and manage change control to protect scope, timing, and margin.
• Mentor and coach Project Managers and Coordinators. Model best practices and documentation hygiene.
• Partner with Account to align execution to strategy and client expectations.
• Own forecasting inputs and invoice readiness in collaboration with Finance.
• Oversight of approximately 5 million dollars in revenue.
• Administrative involvement in new business and shadowing scoping.
• Own staff plan rollup inputs and updates. Plan and communicate resourcing needs.
• Develop brand Gantts and coordinate sequencing across workstreams
• Active in client communications for delivery topics.
• Own vendor relationships for assigned brands.
• Manage team best practices, process reference documents, and onboarding tools.
• Shadow leadership to gain foundational management skills.
• Own day-to-day task management within Workfront and Teams.
• Ensure program compliance across all teams on the brand.
• Think strategically at the brand level. Identify overlaps and staggering opportunities.
• Drive process improvements and QA across deliverables.
• Create scopes and change orders. Review estimates.
• Analyze brand-level finances, forecast, and support invoicing. Speak to finances with clients.
• Build morale. Investigate and analyze issues. Gather the right collaborators.

Benefits

• Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region.
• Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future.
• Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees