Marketing Project Manager

Compass Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Compass Consulting seeks an experienced Project Manager to run production for pharma advertising campaigns. You will own schedules, scope, and handoffs while coordinating with brand marketers, creatives, and the Director of Studio.

This hands-on role requires keeping work moving, protecting team time, and ensuring readiness for MLR reviews. You will intake requests, manage day-to-day production across multiple projects, and ensure clear briefs, timelines, and resource plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in project or account management in healthcare or pharma advertising.
• Direct experience managing pharma promotional content through MLR.
• Working knowledge of Veeva Vault PromoMats and FDA/OPDP requirements for branded and unbranded materials.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders at once.
• Comfort working directly with creative teams and giving them clear, organized direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Workfront, Asana or Monday.

Responsibilities

• Intake new requests from brand teams and turn them into briefs, timelines and resource plans.
• Run day-to-day production across multiple concurrent projects and channels.
• Manage project status, priorities and capacity for the creative team.
• Serve as the primary contact for brand marketers and brand managers.
• Coordinate MLR submissions, track review cycles and manage revisions through approval.
• Route final assets through Veeva and internal distribution channels.
• Flag risks early and resolve scope, timing and resourcing issues.

Job description

Our client is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with multiple products on the market and a promising development pipeline.

We are hiring a Project Manager to run production. You will own the schedule, the scope and the handoffs on every job that moves through the studio. You will be the main point of contact for brand marketers and brand managers, and the operational partner to our Creative Director, Art Directors and Designers.

This is a hands-on role. You will keep work moving, protect the team's time and make sure nothing reaches MLR review late or unprepared.

What you will do:

• Intake new requests from brand teams and turn them into clear briefs, timelines and resource plans
• Run day to day production across multiple concurrent projects and channels
• Manage project status, priorities and capacity for the creative team
• Serve as the primary contact for brand marketers and brand managers
• Coordinate MLR submissions, track review cycles and manage revisions through approval
• Route final assets through Veeva and internal distribution channels
• Flag risks early and resolve scope, timing and resourcing issues before they become problems
• Help build and refine studio workflows, templates and reporting

What you bring:

• 5+ years of project or account management experience at a healthcare or pharma advertising agency
• Direct experience managing pharma promotional content through MLR review
• Working knowledge of Veeva Vault PromoMats and FDA/OPDP requirements for branded and unbranded materials
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders at once
• Comfort working directly with creative teams and giving them clear, organized direction
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Workfront, Asana or Monday

Nice to have:

• Experience in an in house creative or content studio
• Exposure to modular content and content reuse workflows
• Experience with AI assisted content production tools