Project Manager - Medical Communications

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.

Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits

Location: Remote, US

About The Role

The Medical Project Manager (PM) plays a crucial role in managing accounts of varying size and complexity, and projects independently, ensuring they are completed on budget, on schedule, and to the required specifications. This role is critical in meeting and consistently exceeding client expectations. PMs will be working with an extended team and under the guidance of senior team members.

As key client projects contact, PMs are responsible for coordinating with support agencies, driving project timelines, and addressing any concerns that arise. They must possess solid project management knowledge, including financial reporting skills, proficiency with project management software, and time management & project prioritisation skills. PMs are also expected to be client facing and develop good relationships with their clients, as well as building effective relationships with internal teams and mentoring junior team members and fostering their development. This involves supporting workload prioritisation, actively participating in meetings, providing valuable project feedback to ensure the seamless progression of all projects, and establishing themselves as a trusted member of the team as well as a reliable client partner.

• Project Oversight: Manage smaller accounts and standard projects independently, and assist in managing larger, more complex accounts.
• Account Understanding: Be familiar with key business and brand objectives, as well as a working knowledge of the therapy area.
• Financial Management: Support project finances, addressing out-of-scope issues and recommending corrective actions.
• Stakeholder Communication: Maintain regular communication with client and other external and internal stakeholders, providing updates and flagging concerns.
• Timeline Management: Drive project timelines, serving as the internal information hub, and ensuring milestones are met.
• Resource Allocation and Management: Coordinate resource allocation and project resource management to ensure projects are adequately staffed and supported, balancing workload and capacity across teams.
• Opportunity Identification: Where possible, identify and generate new opportunities within existing and new accounts.

• Develop budgets, manage out-of-scope tasks, and perform financial reconciliation on standard budgets; assist with complex budgets.
• Refine project management processes to resolve inefficiencies.
• Manage project timeline/schedule development and updates.
• Support account budget development and financial reporting.
• Assist in client invoicing and financial tracking.
• Drive internal and client status calls.
• Ensure status sheets are updated, and client responses are actioned in a timely manner.
• Mentor Associate Project Managers and Project Coordinators.
• Participate in debrief meetings and implement feedback.

• Demonstrating a minimum of 3+ years of experience in project management, preferably within a Medical Communications agency.

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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