The Associate Project Manager will manage low/mid complexity projects, facilitate client communication, handle financial management, and align cross-functional teams to ensure project success.
About Avalere Health
Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.
Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.
We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.
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About the role:
The Associate Project Manager (or APM) will have project specific responsibilities & ownership of low/mid complexity projects across a set of client account(s) as assigned. They will work closely with their agency counterparts (Account, Creative, Finance, Strategy, Technology) to create the space for great ideas, work and results.
The role is accountable for achieving great project-level results for low/mid complexity projects (and supporting large scale projects with oversight) for the agency through thoughtful project planning, staff alignment and effective project management that anticipates and actively manages to mitigate risks. The APM will also begin to take on greater financial management responsibilities in the form of estimating work, monitoring budgets and supporting other agency financial processes.
What you'll do:
- Point of contact for client for low/mid complexity work that has been kicked off and is in motion at the agency
- Solicit client direction and input; manage client expectations
- Supports the organization and prioritization of work across client responsibilities
- Consultative approach able to identify and mitigate project risks before they become issues
- Ability to synthesize client interactions into actionable direction
- Deliver high quality work that exceeds client expectations
- Financial management including pricing, budget management, reconciliation, billing, and the ability to effectively communicate financial status/risks/mitigation plans to client
- Actively partner with Account, Creative, Finance, Strategy and Technology to establish project approach and pull through the work from job activation to end delivery
- Work closely with Account partners to clearly define and activate project work
- Serve as organization hub for assigned clients and project work
- Manage daily hot sheets, facilitate flow of project work, partner closely with resource management to align staff to the work
- Facilitate efficient communication across the agency team including capturing meeting notes and outlining next steps as required
- Create and manage project timelines and resource assignments
- Developing decision maker and problem solver. Expanding ability to set direction for the team based on good, consistent decision making
- Expanding financial management responsibilities including scoping/estimating work, budget management and supporting other agency financial processes
- Prepare/support and lead client submissions
- Ability to lead the scoping and estimation of low/mid complexity work
- Monitors and assigns tasks to internal project team
- Ability to run client and team meetings
- Accountable for delivering revenue in the month projected
- Works closely with their account management counterpart to ensure accurate financial projections.
About you:
- 2+ years of relevant experience, agency/pharma setting preferred
- Ability to work well with cross functional teams
- Extreme attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Client facing abilities
- Solid presentation skills
What we can offer
Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.
At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.
We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.
We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.
We encourage all applicants to read our candidate privacy notice before applying to Avalere Health.
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