Senior Project Manager

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

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Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our growing team!  

 

21GRAMS, part of Real Chemistry, takes an innovative approach to advertising, and focusing on making healthcare more human.  Not just in our work, but in the way we conduct business, approach client relationships, and treat each other. It’s a place where people subscribe to the adage, “Be good to each other, but hard on the work.” A place where people are not just in it for the paycheck, but to make a dent in the universe. Sound like you? 

 

At 21GRAMS, we set the benchmark for excellence in healthcare project management. As trusted leaders, we build confidence through teamwork, ownership, and proactive risk management. We uphold our processes with accountability, deliver with precision, and communicate with clarity. Creative problem-solving, adaptability, and integrity define our work. Guided by purpose and collaboration, we inspire our teams to achieve best-in-class outcomes for every project.

 

The Senior Project Manager leads complex, integrated initiatives across channels and provides day-to-day leadership for the project team. This role balances hands-on delivery with mentoring and process stewardship.

 

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, Lambertville, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

 

What you’ll do: 

• Lead execution of integrated campaigns that span digital, print, events, and video.
• Develop detailed Gantts and critical paths across multiple deliverables and vendors.
• Anticipate risks, propose solutions, and manage change control to protect scope, timing, and margin.
• Mentor and coach Project Managers and Coordinators. Model best practices and documentation hygiene.
• Partner with Account to align execution to strategy and client expectations.
• Own forecasting inputs and invoice readiness in collaboration with Finance.

 

Portfolio Management:

• Oversight of approximately 5 million dollars in revenue.
• Administrative involvement in new business and shadowing scoping.

Resource Management:

• Own staff plan rollup inputs and updates. Plan and communicate resourcing needs.
• Develop brand Gantts and coordinate sequencing across workstreams

Client and Vendor Relationship Management      

• Active in client communications for delivery topics.
• Own vendor relationships for assigned brands.

Training, Growth, Reporting:

• Manage team best practices, process reference documents, and onboarding tools.
• Shadow leadership to gain foundational management skills.

Admin Operations:

• Own day-to-day task management within Workfront and Teams.
• Ensure program compliance across all teams on the brand.

Execution:

• Think strategically at the brand level. Identify overlaps and staggering opportunities.
• Drive process improvements and QA across deliverables.

Finance:

• Create scopes and change orders. Review estimates.
• Analyze brand-level finances, forecast, and support invoicing. Speak to finances with clients.

Culture, Comms and Collaboration:

• Build morale. Investigate and analyze issues. Gather the right collaborators.

 

This position is a perfect fit for you if: 

• Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you. 
• You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving. 
• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data. 
• You are highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines. 

 

What you should have:  

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• Expert knowledge of digital and print production workflows.

• Strong skills in scoping, budgeting, resource planning, and risk management.

• Excellent client-facing communication and presentation skills. 

• 5 or more years of project management experience in healthcare communications.

• Prior mentoring or supervisory experience.

 

Pay Range: $100,000 - $130,000
This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting.  Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Real Chemistry is proud to be Great Place to Work® certified; check out what our people shared about our culture and workplace on our Great Places to Work Profile here.

We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.  Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com.

Working with Real HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us. For employees who are within an hour of one of our offices, we expect attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are also actively opening new office locations, so if one opens near you, our Real HART policy will apply. We are not looking for attendance for the sake of attendance but believe that the opportunity to coordinate in-office team meetings, 1:1 meetings with managers, taking advantage of on-site learning, and connecting with client partners is a critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. Outside of these offices, we have regions, where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) approach. Real Chemistry believes we are best together – and our workplace strategy fosters connection and collaboration in person – but also supports flexibility for our people.

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.

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