Associate Project Manager - Publications

The Lockwood Group, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Work-life balance

Job summary

The Lockwood Group, LLC is seeking a Project Manager to oversee all aspects of publications projects, ensuring expectations are met, and budgets are managed. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree and 3-5 years of project management experience in a publications environment. Responsibilities include maintaining client relationships, contributing to new business development, and managing project timelines. Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office and publication management platforms is essential. The position supports flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of relevant project management experience in a publications environment.
• Ability to grasp and retain scientific information.
• Strong technical aptitude and working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and faculty members.
• Manage timely and professional communications with clients and faculty.
• Develop new project budgets and manage financial monitoring of projects.
• Schedule and conduct project team meetings and provide updates.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Scientific information retention

Microsoft Office

Publication management platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

iEnvision/Datavision

PubStrat

Job description

About Lockwood

Lockwood collaborates with clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries to identify effective, holistic, science‑based strategies to address their objectives through medical communications. Our clients count on us to challenge their assumptions and help them creatively navigate around obstacles. From strategy through execution, we focus on accuracy, transparency, and scientific value to create programs that are evidence‑based, clinically relevant, and contribute to the development of our clients’ brands. Over a third of our staff hold advanced scientific or medical degrees, and most work from where they live. Because our flexible structure provides better work‑life balance, we attract the best talent, facilitate their best work, and as a result, are more responsive to our clients, wherever and whenever they do business.

Summary

In this role, the Project Manager is responsible for managing all aspects of publications projects from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and faculty members
• Maintain and manage timely and professional written and verbal communications with clients and faculty members
• Ensure client expectations are met on all levels of program activity
• Establish and maintain a strong knowledge of client organizations, products, disease states, and publications
• Develop new project budgets
• Contribute to new business development activities within the account team
• Manage budgeting, financial monitoring, and reconciliation of individual projects
• Schedule and conduct start‑up, interim, and final team meetings for each project, establish and maintain time and events schedules, and provide ongoing updates to client and team as required by account team on each initiative to ensure successful management and completion
• Facilitate progress of multidisciplinary project teams to ensure within‑budget, on‑time, on‑strategy performance
• Own the detail of daily account work on each project
• Oversee and facilitate development of all project activities
• Assist in training new account team members as required
• Maintain company policies as they pertain to all activities
• Adhere to all Lockwood Group policies and standard operating procedures

Education

A bachelor’s degree is required.

Professional Skills & Experience

Three to five years of relevant project management experience in a publications environment is required. Candidates must have the ability to grasp and retain scientific information, along with a strong technical aptitude and working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Candidates must have experience with publication management platforms, such as iEnvision/Datavision and PubStrat.