Senior Project Manager

Summary

Join Avalere Health as a Medical Senior Project Manager (SPM) and lead complex projects for large accounts. You will manage all aspects of projects, ensuring successful planning, execution, and outcomes while meeting budget and schedule requirements. This client-facing role requires proactive project management, strong financial skills, and effective communication with internal and external stakeholders. You will drive timelines, act as an internal information hub, and actively manage project finances to achieve Avalere Health KPIs. The SPM may mentor junior team members and contribute to process improvement. Experience in medical communications and global publications is highly valued.

Requirements

Demonstrating a minimum of 4+ years of experience in project management, preferably within a Medical Communications agency

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of assigned projects from a project management and financial perspective, ensuring successful planning, management, execution and outcome
• Ensure both external and internal stakeholders are kept informed and regularly updated on project progress with any concerns being flagged to appropriate department leads in a timely manner
• Actively drive timelines and act as an internal information hub for the account
• Actively manage project finances to achieve Avalere Health KPIs and proactively discuss any corrective courses of action with client and internal team
• Where possible identify, and generate, opportunities with existing and new accounts
• Budget development and reconciliation
• Updating PM tools and running regular reports
• Reviewing project management processes and finding ways to resolve
• Timeline/schedule development and updating
• Providing internal and external financial information
• Invoicing clients; tracking and phasing projects
• Traffic management; updating status sheets
• Driving internal and client status calls
• Mentoring and guiding best practice
• Providing project feedback and input to action plans

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on a Global Publications account is highly preferred

Benefits

• A generous company pension/retirement plan
• Private medical insurance
• Comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives
• Compelling time-off policy
• Many other excellent employee benefits
• Flexible working practices