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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Job Summary

The Project Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of projects that support Real Chemistry’s corporate marketing and external communications efforts across channels. They will ensure operational effectiveness through the management of delivery systems, financial systems, project management systems, and resource allocation processes.

This person should have experience and proven ability in planning, resourcing, and managing end-to-end integrated projects involving various partners and in-house teams. They will work with a multidisciplinary team of specialists to ensure delivery of digital projects (website/email, banners), print projects (posters, fact sheets, brochures), branding projects (key messaging, logos, style guides), social activation projects (social campaign planning and posts, and events.

The right person for this role will have a can-do attitude and be solution-oriented, providing recommendations to the team when challenges arise.

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

What you’ll do: 

• Manage timelines, hot sheets, and status reports throughout the lifecycle of a job.
• Manage all projects from kick-off to release and deployment.
• Collaborate closely with subject matter experts across capability areas.
• Liaison with production vendors and other partners.
• Identify risks throughout the project lifecycle and ensure that teams are staying within timelines and scoped expenses.
• Successfully interface with key team members to ensure they’re on track to meet the agreed upon milestones.
• Provide necessary direction to the team on the tasks and deliverables required.
• Lead the following internal meetings: hotsheet, weekly internal status, project briefings, internal creative reviews, and meetings with external vendors, circulating detailed recaps/next steps notes.
• Route deliverables in Workfront to the appropriate team members for review/sign off via electronic project routing system. Ensure signoff prior to key junctures, (leadership team review, asset handoffs, etc.)
• Enforce company process and manage the quality assurance (QA) phase for all projects.

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:  

• A minimum of 3+ years of project management experience working in a healthcare communications agency.
• Knowledge in executing integrated digital marketing campaigns and an understanding of digital, social, and print marketing channels.
• Experience working cross-functionally with copy, design, account, and production counterparts.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Workfront, Outlook, Adobe, and JIRA.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with technical and non-technical teams; possess excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent interpersonal with an ability to reason quickly combined with concise communication skills - verbal and written.
• Demonstrated understanding of project interdependencies (can identify, address, and carry through inputs and information from one project across all other projects within the program).
• Must be highly organized with a proven track record of leading multiple projects with senior agency leaders simultaneously.
• Flexible with evolving processes.
• Good time management skills.
• Experience working on healthcare projects within an agency environment.

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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