Job description
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.
We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you’d like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.
About the role:
As Director, Project Delivery, you will be responsible for seamlessly leading and managing agency workflow, client delivery, resourcing, timelines, budget, and submissions across relevant internal business units, clients, and other external partners.
What you’ll do:
- Lead, own, and perform all aspects of project delivery end-to-end from project scoping and submissions management to successful execution and lessons learned
- Lead project delivery for both external portfolio of client accounts as well as the internal department for Access Marketing in line with business objectives and operational excellence
- Establish and/or optimize processes based on Access Marketing business objectives, including identifying opportunities to improve, streamline, and automate agency workflows
- Enforce project standards and business management systems across internal and external stakeholders as needed
- Foster client relationships and represent agency operations/project delivery in client meetings and planning discussions as appropriate
- Lead and contribute to launch planning roadmaps and day of approval plans to ensure operational excellence throughout client PDUFA timeframes
- Create and disseminate project burn reports and escalate/mitigate areas of risk as needed, including working collaboratively with the account team to proactively address
- Integrate seamlessly and maintain fluency between Advisory and Marketing disciplines within a matrixed organization
- Grow and contribute to the growth of Access Marketing by supporting project delivery needs for RFPs, pitches, and other new business development opportunities
- Lead collaboratively with account, strategy, medical, creative, and other project delivery partners on all aspects of Access Marketing
- Support leadership with growing the internal project delivery team and cultivating strong talent, including mentorship, management, and outsourcing of freelance needs
- Be flexible with travel up to 10% of time as needed
About you:
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
- 10+ years’ experience in project management within a healthcare agency environment
- Thrives in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and cross-discipline environment with a proactive mindset
- Deep and detailed knowledge of pharmaceutical brand marketing including broadcast, print, digital, and medical/legal/regulatory review
- Expert skill level with MS Office experience, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook strongly preferred
- Expert skill level with MS Project or other project plan software (Smartsheet) strongly preferred
- Expert skill level with production tools and proprietary software (Egnyte, JIRA, Asana, Content Management Systems, online routing, etc.) strongly preferred
- Excellent knowledge of the web and related technologies including (user experience, web development, web services, integration, application management and hosting) strongly preferred
- Strong experience with both traditional/non-digital and digital campaigns (including site, digital experiences, email) strongly preferred
- Highly skilled as an interdisciplinary thinker and curious project delivery lead
- Seamlessly skillful in balancing both collaborative work and independent work
- Proven track record in leading teams, problem-solving with agility and creativity, as well as upholding the organization’s culture
- Comfortable working under pressure with tight deadlines, across both inline client work and pipeline new business development work
- Exceptional and reliable organizational skills
$140,000 - $160,000 a year
We are committed to offering a competitive and fair salary that reflects your location, qualifications and the experience you will bring to our team. Salary ranges posted are commensurate with experience.
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.
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