VP, Director of Project Management Greater New York City, NY Area

Agency:

Remedy Edge

Job Function:

Projects and Performance Improvement

Job Subfunction:

Project and Program Management

Job Description:

Wildtype is a sister agency of Remedy Edge within Omnicom Health. This position may appear under Remedy Edge for application purposes; however, the role is exclusively with Wildtype.

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

YOU ARE THE DISRUPTION DRIVER You’ve always understood that to be disruptive is better than to be conventional. To pursue challenges is more admirable than to be complacent. You don’t settle, and you won’t let your team, or your clients accept less than the best that their capabilities allow. And you routinely remind them that what’s possible should never be underestimated.

The status quo exists to be examined and defied. You build strong relationships with your clients and help them to embrace this idea and realize the true potential of their brands. You refuse to accept “this is how we’ve always done it” and push instead for “how has it never been done?” You establish new models and approaches that introduce unexpected solutions to brand challenges. And your leadership gives your team and your clients the confidence to reach outside the familiar.

Title: VP, Director of Project Management

Overview:

The VP, Director of Project Management will partner with Account Leadership to manage client relationships on assigned brands, develop talent within the Project Management discipline, and attain financial goals as outlined in metrics associates with this role. This VP leader has day-to-day management of their own projects, and assumes accountability for the training and mentoring of all PM staff on project initiation and planning, directing and managing project execution, monitoring and controlling project work, and scheduling of all project activities for multichannel tactics. This role is accountable for ensuring that all projects are effectively and efficiently executed and delivered successfully against client expectations and delivered on-time, on-budget, and error-free contributing to overall agency profitability. The VP, Director of PM demonstrates an expert knowledge of and is accountable for managing the team’s adherence to agency processes and SOP’s and revisiting when change is needed. Depending on the size of assigned account, the VP/PM will lead PMs and operate as primary point person with an overall holistic view of the account or several accounts, including jobs, staffing, and tactics within.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Comprehensive knowledge and skills across all multi-channel media (print, digital, and social media), and ability to apply leading edge project management philosophy, tools and techniques to improve marketing and advertising execution
• Advertising agency experience required
• Healthcare and/or pharmaceutical experience is required
• Strong financial/budget-management experience required
• Solid track record of successfully leading projects from initiation to completion, error-free, on-time and on-budget
• Strong computer skills required including high level of computer competency and associated software (Microsoft Suite: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Project) required.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships to gain trust and respect
• Build constructive relationships to foster collaboration and cross-functional thinking
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Creative, innovative, enthusiastic problem solver demonstrating influencing skills; exhibits strong mentoring, teamwork, and client-service orientation
• Ability to learn new concepts quickly, easily make connections among previously unrelated ideas, and enjoy the challenge of unfamiliar tasks
• Ability to regularly exercise judgement and discretion in order to manage jobs

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