Associate Director, Project Management Cary, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New Y[...]

Inizio Evoke; Cary (IL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Director of Project Management to lead a dynamic team in healthcare advertising. This strategic role involves overseeing complex projects and managing client relationships while ensuring financial accountability. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, particularly in a healthcare context, and a passion for fostering team growth and efficiency. Join a forward-thinking organization that values collaboration and innovation, offering a flexible work environment and competitive compensation packages to help you thrive both professionally and personally.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

401(k) Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Time Off

Qualifications

• 6+ years of project management experience in a healthcare advertising agency environment.
• 2+ years managing one or more direct reports.

Responsibilities

• Oversee high-level complexity projects requiring cross-agency support.
• Manage brand finances, including project estimates and budget tracking.
• Provide direction to PM team and serve as client contact.

Skills

Project Management

Healthcare Advertising

Team Leadership

Client Management

Risk Mitigation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

In the journey of life, your career should make a difference.

At Inizio Evoke, we come together—to do the best work, in the best possible place. We're all in. Because it's everyone's role to make health more human.

Your Role:

The Associate Director, Project Management is a strategic position overseeing a business unit consisting of one or more brands with a team of PMs.

As an Associate Director, Project Management, you are able to switch seamlessly from day‐to‐day management of projects to high‐level oversight of your brand(s) and cross-functional team(s), seeing both the details and the big picture. You understand that working smart is better than working hard, you are knowledgeable, flexible, and collaborative.

This is a remote role reporting to a Director, Project Management

Brand Management

• Manage key high-level complexity projects, requiring cross-agency and/or vendor support
• Develop and maintain brand‐level planning and initiatives (Gantts, etc.)
• Manage key high-level complexity projects, requiring cross-agency and/or vendor support
• Provide direction to team on task and project priority, delegating within PM team as necessary
• Serve as a point of contact for the client, in close partnership with the account team, as the interface between client and agency for all project plans, budgets, and revisions
• Oversee legal/regulatory submissions, reviewing processes, and recommending adjustments to ensure the quality and consistency of submissions
• Be able to onboard clients to agency process, talk about risk identification and mitigation planning

Finance Management

• Leads development of annual scopes of work and change orders, partnering with cross-functional teams to align on key assumptions, feasibility and resource needs
• Develop and work with the PM team to develop solutions to mitigate risk
• Responsible for overall brand finances, including oversight of project estimates, forecasting, weekly budget tracking and reporting, client reconciliations, and reviewing all documentation generated by the PM team ahead of internal and client reviews

Resource Management

• Comfortable meeting with Dept heads to discuss campaign or business unit needs, challenges, or optimizations
• Have an awareness of resources assigned across brands managed, escalating concerns with resourcing to department leads and resource management partners
• Identify opportunities to adjust process for efficiencies both internally and externally

Team Management

• Responsible for the oversight, growth and development of PM and Sr PM’s depending on team size and interest
• Serve as point of escalation for the PM and cross-functional team
• Monitor team utilization and re-allocate workload to balance as needed
• Provides onboarding and training of new PM team members, overseeing team development of materials that contribute to department learning and growth
• Regularly assess team skills, provide training and mentoring

Agency

• Support agency culture, directives, and collaborates with PMO and agency leadershipto improve processes and workflows
• Contribute to new business efforts
• Learn, educate, and promote emerging technologies when planning client tactics

You will bring:

• 6+ years of project management experience in a healthcare advertising agency environment
• 2+ years managing one or more direct reports

Inizio Evoke provides an exciting and flexible work environment, great compensation packages and outstanding company paid benefits including medical, dental, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and flexible time off.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that’s why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

Compensation

$110,000 — $120,000 USD

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

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