Senior Project Manager

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible working days

Family-friendly policies

Local discounts

Local discounts

Job summary

A leading creative agency in healthcare is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee diverse projects across the project lifecycle. This role calls for expertise in managing pharmaceutical clients and a deep understanding of the project management process. With a focus on financial tracking, team mentoring, and effective communication with stakeholders, the ideal candidate will also ensure timely project delivery. The role supports hybrid working, allowing flexibility and a balance between office and home.

Qualifications

• Currently working as a Senior Project Manager or experienced in project management.
• Experience leading large multi-faceted clients.
• Full project lifecycle experience from client brief to delivery.
• Experience across full project lifecycle from client brief to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Act as lead Project Manager on a client or set of accounts.
• Plan and lead projects ensuring overall delivery.
• Manage resource bookings and address project risks.
• Create scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines.
• Track financial health of projects via burn reports and reconciliations.
• Track timelines and ensure on-time delivery of projects.
• Build internal and external relationships with clarity and certainty.
• Support and mentor team members with reports and administration tasks.
• Manage resource bookings and highlight risks with solutions.
• Collaborate with third parties for services and ensure delivery.
• Be a positive advocate for the project management team.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Risk mitigation

Financial tracking

Budgeting & finance

Risk management

Education

Experience in health advertising

Proven experience with pharmaceutical clients

Job description

Company Description

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is a full-service creative agency operating in the health and wellness space. Our purpose is to unleash the ‘Wellness Effect’ in every person through meaningful personalised experiences, because we achieve greater outcomes when we are fully engaged in our wellness. We believe when our people do well, our work does well, our clients do well, and our patients do well, inspiring even more wellness in the world. We sum it up in two small words…

Do Well.

That’s the what, but the how is guided by four defining principles - curious, creative, discerning, brave. These are the values we look for and nurture in others and ourselves, underpinning as they do a culture of collaborative entrepreneurialism that drives high-performance.

Overview

The Role

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is looking for a Senior Project Manager to work across a wide variety of projects and tasks, leading your project team through all stages of the project lifecycle making sure we are financially aware, have the right resource in place and are hitting our deadlines.

The Senior Project Manager is the go-to person to solve our challenges, make correct commercial decisions, and enable our creativity, expertise and craft to shine.

You will be confident bringing all team members on that journey, communicating with all levels of stakeholders and helping other team members to do the same. You will have outstanding attention to detail, a logical approach and great communication skills, flagging and mitigating risks while driving towards the end goal.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Act as lead Project Manager on a client or set of accounts.
• Plan and lead projects assigned projects and take responsibility for overall delivery
• Lead programmes of work and be responsible for ensuring all workstreams run concurrently
• Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects
• Track the financial health of your projects through burn reports and reconciliations
• Track timelines and ensure on time project delivery
• Build internal and external relationships and communicate with clarity and certainty
• Support and mentor other team members with reports, tracking and administration tasks
• Manage resource bookings
• Highlight risks and provide solutions
• Work with 3rd parties for services and take responsibility for their delivery
• Act as a positive advocate for the project management team

Qualifications

Who you are:

• Currently working as a Senior Project Manager within a health advertising agency (or experienced Project Manager looking to step up)
• Proven experience working with pharmaceutical clients
• Experience leading large multi-faceted clients
• Experience of creating production and project strategies for multiple brands
• Experience of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery

Please note: we work on a hybrid basis, with 3 days per week based from our office in West London.

Additional Information

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer:

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• “YOU” DAYS - flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

> details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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