Director, Project Management
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
1 month ago
About the role
Company Description
For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work.
If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people. So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat.
Overview
The Director is an account team’s production lead, ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. The Director leads a multi-skill (i.e. online and offline) team of project managers. This person owns project definition, scope monitoring, budgeting & timing at the account level. Career-manages a team of direct reports.
Responsibilities
Knowledge
Strategy
Tactics and Execution
Client Relationship
Qualifications
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected]. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $97,375.00 - $155,961.00 annually. 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 the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 05/04/2026.
For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work.
If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people. So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat.
Overview
The Director is an account team’s production lead, ultimately responsible for the delivery of high-quality deliverables that power client satisfaction, meet business requirements, and balance client and agency economics. The Director leads a multi-skill (i.e. online and offline) team of project managers. This person owns project definition, scope monitoring, budgeting & timing at the account level. Career-manages a team of direct reports.
Responsibilities
Knowledge
- PM Approach: Ensures that the PM Team utilizes a flexible approach
- PM Technical Skills: Leads large teams to drive complex programs/campaigns to completion based on scope and budget. Well-versed in production needs; considered an expert in multiple channels and understands other mediums well enough to be a strategic problem solver
- Talent Selection: Demonstrates the ability to hire and retain highly capable people while fostering diversity and career development
- SOWs: Accountable for the accuracy of all team SOWs
- Problem Solving: Team’s chief problem solver and talent choreographer
- Agency process: Develops key operational tools (i.e. team or brand specific processes)
- Growing Talent: Demonstrated ability to grow mid-level producer talent; able to effectively manage performance issues
- Client finances: Collaborates (with Business Manager if available) to provide accurate and realistic cost-to-complete estimates and forecasts for assigned projects
- Technology: Continuously learning technology. Advanced Microsoft Project and Excel ability. Strong understanding of today’s digital technologies
Strategy
- Resource allocation: Reviews all projects across account to determine resource and skill requirements; drives resource allocation management; ensures the right resources are cast to the need
- Project Plans: Accountable for account-level master project plan creation and management.
- Process improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to adjust processes for efficiencies
- Quality Control: Structures and leads project status reviews; leads cross-team post-mortem sessions
- Informing: Partners with account/ marketing team to provide appropriate and consistent communication directly to client(s) in an effort to clearly manage expectations
- Risk Management: Leads large teams to develop and manage risk mitigation plans
Tactics and Execution
- Agency Cost Management: Vigilantly seeks to optimize both agency services and internal resources
- Internal Relationships and Team Leadership: Collaborative business partner to team capability leads
- Management: Responsible for the career development of others
- Execution: Prioritizes work in progress (WIP) with production and account teams to pull work forward and break bottlenecks
- Vendors: Point of escalation for vendor management concerns
- Scope Definition: Scopes and estimates complex, multi-channel engagements
Client Relationship
- Relationship: Client-facing lead on issues related to production and project management
- Client knowledge: Understands the client’s business and plans projects accordingly
- Passion: Demonstrates passion for the brands and our work
- Accountability: Owns vendor/partner relationships
- Problem Solving: Able to drive difficult or complex production discussions with client and facilitate resolution
- New Business: Production lead on new business pitches; identifies upsell opportunities
- Communication and Writing: Uses advanced interpersonal and listening skills. Solid written and presentation skills
Qualifications
- 8+ years applicable experience as a Project Manager in an agency setting
- Fully integrated (marketing, technical, digital, etc.) delivery experience is required
- Healthcare or Pharma experience is required
- Launch experience is strongly desired
- Expert at project and program management
- Strategic program and tactical planning
- Bachelor's degree Marketing, MIS, or Business Administration or related field is preferred but not required
- Solid understanding of project management methodology, including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risk and develop detailed work plans and specifications
- Comfort managing multi-disciplinary teams, which may consist of creatives, technologists, media experts, etc.
- Experience interfacing with clients and partner vendors on technical delivery project
Additional Information
Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected]. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Compensation Range: $97,375.00 - $155,961.00 annually. 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 the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 05/04/2026.
Skills
Advertising Services