Project Manager

Summary

Join Lockwood, a medical communications agency, as a Project Manager! You will manage all aspects of medical communications projects, from inception to completion, including content development, advisory boards, and speaker training. Responsibilities include leading multidisciplinary teams, meeting client expectations, managing budgets, and ensuring projects stay on track. The ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator with experience leading teams and strong financial management skills. A bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant project management experience in healthcare communications are required. Lockwood offers a flexible structure that provides better work-life balance, attracting top talent and enabling responsiveness to clients.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree is required
• Three to five years of relevant project management experience in a healthcare communications 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, Excel, and Access

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 medical education
• 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, including faculty recruitment and ongoing communication, audience generation, content development, logistics management, registration/participant communication, production of materials, supplier performance, central file management
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Exceptional communicator with experience successfully leading multidisciplinary teams
• Strong financial management skills
• Highly organized
• Adept at multitasking/prioritizing
• Ability and willingness to motivate others

Benefits

• Flexible structure provides better work-life balance
• Most work from where they live