Project Manager

About Ogilvy Health

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of Ogilvy’s capabilities and global talent—Ogilvy Health brings forth world-class creative solutions for its clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Agency Network of the Year (Ad Age)
• Global Agency of the Year (Adweek)
• One of the “Best Places to Work” for LGBTQ+ equality (Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index)
• Most Effective Agency Network (Effie Worldwide)
• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)
• Network of the Year (One Show)
• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)
• …and Ogilvy was the first agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100 in consecutive years

For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Threads.

About the Role

The Project Management Office at Ogilvy Health is responsible for project execution, process improvement, budget management and resource management across the agency. Our Project Management team helps to assemble and lead interdisciplinary teams, ensure adherence to workflow, schedules, and budgets, and deliver with excellence for our clients. We are looking for a Project Manager to join a large-scale healthcare AOR account. The successful PM is a creative problem solver, understands and champions agency process, and thrives in a team environment.

What you’ll do?

Project Management:

• Owns and manages mid-complexity, multi-channel projects from initiation to completion, providing strategic direction and vision.
• Develops and manages comprehensive project scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation plans using agency tools and project management software.
• Leads day-to-day project execution, collaborating with junior and senior PM team members, internal stakeholders, and external vendors to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Proactively identifies and mitigates project risks and challenges, escalating issues and proposing solutions as needed.
• Conducts regular status meetings, effectively communicates project updates, and ensures alignment on deliverables and timelines.
• Spearhead project execution, ensuring alignment with project goals, timelines, and budgets.
• Proactively identify and resolve conflicts or roadblocks that may hinder project success.
• Leads with vision and drive.

Financial Management:

• Manages project financials, tracking spend against budget and taking corrective action to achieve revenue targets.
• Participates in weekly finance meetings, providing insights into project performance, monthly forecasting and resource utilization.

Team & Relationship Management:

• Cultivates strong relationships with clients, vendors, and internal teams to foster collaboration and ensure project success.
• Leads and motivates project teams, fostering a positive and collaborative environment.
• Identifies and proposes solutions to project or client challenges, working effectively with internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrates initiative by suggesting improvements to agency and team processes.
• Supports junior team members by providing guidance, training and assistance.

Effective Communicator and Collaborator:

• Motivate and inspire project teams to achieve high-performance standards and deliver exceptional results.
• Clearly articulate project vision, goals, and updates to diverse audiences, including team members, clients, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Adapt communication style (written, verbal, presentations) to effectively resonate with different audiences and mediums.
• Proactively keep all stakeholders informed of project progress, deadlines, and any potential roadblocks.
• Cultivate strong, collaborative relationships with clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Foster a team environment built on open communication, trust, and mutual respect.

What You’ll Need:

• 3- 5 years agency project management experience, specifically within healthcare marketing and communications
• Strong PM and Production knowledge across multiple tactic types
• Experience with digital routing/proofing systems
• Smartsheet experience or similar web-based project management tool
• Financial aptitude and experience
• Outstanding communication skills
• Superior organizational skills
• Launch experience a plus 

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.  

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