[Hiring] Publications Project Manager @The Lockwood Group

Role Description

In this role, the Project Manager is responsible for assisting in managing all aspects of publications projects from inception to completion.

• Facilitating multidisciplinary project teams
• Interfacing with each department within the company
• Meeting client and management expectations
• Establishing strong faculty relationships
• Ensuring programs remain on target and within agreed-upon parameters
• Budget development, maintenance, and reconciliation
• Managing external suppliers
• Keeping programs on time and focused on primary objectives
• Providing ongoing updates to internal team members and client contact(s)
• Resource management

The ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator with experience successfully leading multidisciplinary teams. We are seeking individuals with strong financial management skills who are highly organized, adept at multitasking/prioritizing, and have the ability and willingness to motivate others.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree is required.
• Three to five years of relevant project management experience in a publications environment is required.
• Ability to grasp and retain scientific information.
• Strong technical aptitude and working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Experience with publication management platforms, such as iEnvision/Datavision and PubStrat.

Requirements

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and faculty members
• Maintain and manage timely and professional written and verbal communications with clients and faculty members
• Ensure client expectations are met on all levels of program activity
• Establish and maintain a strong knowledge of client organizations, products, disease states, and publications
• Develop new project budgets
• Contribute to new business development activities within the account team
• Manage budgeting, financial monitoring, and reconciliation of individual projects
• Schedule and conduct start-up, interim, and final team meetings for each project
• Establish and maintain time and events schedules
• Provide ongoing updates to client and team as required by account team on each initiative
• Facilitate progress of multidisciplinary project teams to ensure within-budget, on-time, on-strategy performance
• Own the detail of daily account work on each project
• Oversee and facilitate development of all project activities
• Assist in training new account team members as required
• Maintain company policies as they pertain to all activities
• Adhere to all Lockwood Group policies and standard operating procedures

Company Description

Lockwood collaborates with clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries to identify effective, holistic, science-based strategies to address their objectives through medical communications. Our clients count on us to challenge their assumptions and help them creatively navigate around obstacles. From strategy through execution, we focus on accuracy, transparency, and scientific value to create programs that are evidence-based, clinically relevant, and contribute to the development of our clients’ brands. Over a third of our staff hold advanced scientific or medical degrees, and most work from where they live. Because our flexible structure provides better work-life balance, we attract the best talent, facilitate their best work, and as a result, are more responsive to our clients, wherever and whenever they do business.