Project Manager (Medical Communications)

Avalere Health; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working practices

Private medical insurance

Company pension/retirement plan

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Compelling time-off policy

Hubs across North America, Europe, and

Job summary

Avalere Health is seeking a Medical Project Manager to lead accounts of varying size and complexity, ensuring projects are delivered on budget, on schedule, and to high quality standards.

You will work with an extended team under senior guidance, coordinate with support agencies, manage timelines, and develop strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders while mentoring junior team members.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of project management experience in a Medical Communications agency.
• Experience across Publications and Med Affairs is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage smaller accounts and standard projects independently, and assist with larger accounts.
• Coordinate with support agencies, drive project timelines and address client concerns.
• Develop strong client relationships and mentor junior team members.
• Support workload prioritisation and participate in meetings to provide project feedback.
• Ensure status updates and client responses are actioned in a timely manner.

Skills

Project management

Client liaison

Budget management

Job description

• The Medical Project Manager (PM) plays a crucial role in managing accounts of varying size and complexity, and projects independently, ensuring they are completed on budget, on schedule, and to the required specifications
• This role is critical in meeting and consistently exceeding client expectations
• PMs will be working with an extended team and under the guidance of senior team members
• As key client projects contact, PMs are responsible for coordinating with support agencies, driving project timelines, and addressing any concerns that arise
• PMs are also expected to be client facing and develop good relationships with their clients, as well as building effective relationships with internal teams and mentoring junior team members and fostering their development
• This involves supporting workload prioritisation, actively participating in meetings, providing valuable project feedback to ensure the seamless progression of all projects, and establishing themselves as a trusted member of the team as well as a reliable client partner
• Project Oversight: Manage smaller accounts and standard projects independently, and assist in managing larger, more complex accounts
• Account Understanding: Be familiar with key business and brand objectives, as well as a working knowledge of the therapy area
• Financial Management: Support project finances, addressing out-of-scope issues and recommending corrective actions
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain regular communication with client and other external and internal stakeholders, providing updates and flagging concerns
• Timeline Management: Drive project timelines, serving as the internal information hub, and ensuring milestones are met
• Resource Allocation and Management: Coordinate resource allocation and project resource management to ensure projects are adequately staffed and supported, balancing workload and capacity across teams
• Opportunity Identification: Where possible, identify and generate new opportunities within existing and new accounts
• Develop budgets, manage out-of-scope tasks, and perform financial reconciliation on standard budgets; assist with complex budgets
• Refine project management processes to resolve inefficiencies
• Manage project timeline/schedule development and updates
• Support account budget development and financial reporting
• Assist in client invoicing and financial tracking
• Drive internal and client status calls
• Ensure status sheets are updated, and client responses are actioned in a timely manner
• Mentor Associate Project Managers and Project Coordinators
• Participate in debrief meetings and implement feedback

Benefits

• The tools, skills, and support you need to think differently and to solve healthcare's most complex challenges
• Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career
• Personalized learning and training
• Flexible working practices
• Company pension/retirement plan
• Private medical insurance
• Employee wellbeing initiatives
• Compelling time-off policy
• Hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization

Experience working on projects across Publications and Med Affairs (preferable) Demonstrating a minimum of 3+ years of experience in project management within a Medical Communications agency