Project Manager

BambooHR; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Project Manager proficient in delivering effective client solutions and managing multidisciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have strong problem-solving skills, project management experience in a fast-paced agency environment, and a passion for improving health outcomes. This full-time role provides a hybrid work environment, requiring on-site presence at Yonge and St. Clair for part of the week.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in project management within an agency or consultancy.
• Fluent in English, additional languages are a plus.
• Experience with digital collaboration tools and integrating AI into workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans, manage timelines and budgets.
• Serve as primary client contact, ensuring quality standards are met.
• Assign tasks and monitor team performance.

Skills

Project Management

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving

Business Communication

Tools

G-Suite

MS-Office

Job description

About Throughline Strategy
As a leading healthcare consultancy firm,Throughline Strategy’s sole mission is to help Life Sciences organizations improve experiences and outcomes for people living with illness and those who care for them. Our global clients come to us for our strategic counsel, behavioural and system insights, and implementation science focus — and because we have a ‘roll-up-the-sleeves’ determination to deliver great work that matters.

About the Role
Throughline Strategy is seeking an experienced advertising or consulting agency project managerwho can seamlessly blend project management expertise with strong business acumen and exceptional interpersonal skills to deliver successful outcomes for our clients and our team. In this role, you will be staffed onto high-impact insights, strategy and medical education projects with a cross-functional and highly collaborative team, and contribute in the following ways:

• Project Leadership:Develop comprehensive project plans, manage timelines and budgets, and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver client engagements on time and within scope. Lead project kickoffs, establish governance structures, and manage scope changes through formal change control processes.
• Client Management:Serve as primary client contact, conducting regular status meetings and providing progress updates. Manage stakeholder expectations, facilitate communication between consulting teams and client organizations, and ensure deliverables meet quality standards and business requirements.
  
• Team Coordination: Assign tasks, monitor team performance, and provide coaching to consulting staff. Coordinate resources across multiple concurrent projects, manage consultant schedules, and ensure proper workload distribution while maintaining target utilization rates.
  
• Financial Oversight:Track project profitability, manage expenses, and monitor budget variances. Prepare financial reports, analyze utilization metrics, and identify opportunities for additional work or contract expansions.
  
• Delivery & Quality Assurance: Ensure all deliverables meet internal quality standards and client expectations. Coordinate client feedback incorporation, manage formal delivery processes, and facilitate knowledge transfer to client teams for sustainable implementation.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve project processes for consistency across the organization
• Help improve workplace culture and space
• Other duties as required

Intrigued and curious if you have what it takes?

At Throughline, we firmly believe that culture is as important as the work we do. We hire for values alignment first and foremost. Our values are centred around what it takes to be a great partner:

1. Move It Forward:Even when faced with ambiguous, never-seen-before challenges, our people:

• “Make %$ happen” in order to make meaningful change and solve challenging strategic problems. Our team take on every project and task like it’s their baby.
• Bring strong attention to detail and also have the ability to balance a detail orientation with a big picture perspective.
• Thrive working in an agency setting and relish the pace of consulting work and ability to deliver results quickly
• Love helping our client organizations pull-through our projects into concrete action.

2. Know Yourself : Our team is skilled at assessing what we do well. This increases vulnerability and removes uncertainty in how we operate, creating a more dynamic and sustainable culture of trust, innovation, and teamwork. Towards this, our team:

• All bring a shared passion for improving health outcomes and experiences
• Share an insatiable curiosity. We like to know how people and things work and dig in to find out.
• Are very open to receiving feedback to enhance each of our individual and shared performance.
• Are highly effective working in a self-directed manner.

3. Kindness and Candor: We share the truth with one another in a way that leaves everyone whole and allows people to quickly act on feedback in delivering their personal best work. As part of this we all:

• Speak well, listen even better. We take the time to understand what people really care about and what motivates them.
• Love collaborating and helping. We are a team culture and roll up our sleeves to get the job done together.

We'd love for you to apply to join us if you have:

• 3 years or more experience working in a project management role at an agency or consultancy where external clients were served
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving and business communication (written and spoken) skills
• Demonstrated experience:
  • successfully managing multiple projects with rapidly morphing timelines and requirements at the same time
  • leading teams through ambiguity
  • effectively anticipating and mitigating project risks
  • leading client communications on day to day engagements
    
• Passion for working in a health-related field
• Fluent written and spoken English. Second and third language skills are a plus!
• Experience in using all G-Suite andMS-Office products and working in a cloud-based virtual environment with PowerPoint and digital collaboration tools (e.g. Zoom, Teams, Mural, Slack, Box etc.).
• Experience in integrating AI tools into your workflow

Applicants must be legally able to work in Canada and able to travel to the United States and Europe if required. This is a full-time role with potential for travel to client sites. Throughline operates with a hybrid environment work model so employees will work onsite at Yonge and St. Clair for one - three days a weekand remotely for the remainder of the time. Please note, this role is not available as a fully remote role.

To apply:

Please submit:

• a one page resume
• a cover letter highlighting your project management experience and why you are eager to grow in your project management expertise as part of our team

Inclusion:

We acknowledge and honour the value and dignity of all individuals. We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining a culture that welcomes and respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences.

Accommodations and Accessibility:

At any time during the interview and onboarding process, let us know if you require accommodation. Please contact us at [e-mail] and we will work with you to provide the support you need.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for next steps will be contacted.