What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at BGB Group?
Project Manager
Our Agency
BGB is a healthcare communications agency that offers a wide range of services, including traditional pharmaceutical advertising, promotional medical education, payer marketing, and consulting services. Known for excellence and professionalism, we're hired as strategic and creative partners by our biopharmaceutical clients to drive category/brand awareness and growth.
We have a flexible workforce, offering in-office (post pandemic), remote, and hybrid job opportunities. Our home base is in SoHo, New York City, where we have our large, light-filled duplex loft that features panoramic views of lower Manhattan.
Position Overview:
The Project Manager is responsible for the design, delivery, and anchoring of agency-wide and department-specific projects. The candidate reports to the VP of Operations and also interfaces with the Managing Partners (as required) and the BGB Senior Leadership Team. The Project Manager uses disciplined project management methodologies and practices during all phases of work and has a strong understanding of the core agency processes that impact the ability to plan and deliver a project. Specific responsibilities include:
- Identifies and surveys stakeholders to determine project scope and requirements
- Ensures that projects are properly coordinated through development and execution. Develops and maintains a project plan, including goals and objectives, budget, deliverable (if warranted), success criteria, quality assurance, and risk management
- Develops and maintains a project work breakdown structure to ensure that projects are brought to a timely completion. Identifies and monitors critical path, milestones, dependencies, and actuals versus baseline work and schedule. Revises baseline work and schedule, as well as resource needs, as required and approved by sponsor and manager
- Defines, tracks, evaluates, and resolves issues and project scope changes. Monitors project risks and formulates contingency plans to minimize negative business impact. Completes regular project assessments and takes corrective action when needed
- Ensures quality gates are established and tracked against quality metrics. Ensures deliverable reviews are conducted and approvals received
- Effectively utilizes project staff through organization planning and resourcing appropriate agency resources as required. If using outside vendors, ensures that the appropriate processes are followed to procure goods and services. Identifies resources, hardware, and software required
- Ensures timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information
- Develops and manages project communication plan. Performs regularly scheduled project communication, including
Experience and Education:
A Project Manager has 3-5 years of experience in Project Management, and must have a proven record of not only independent execution of the below responsibilities and successful demonstration of the below competencies, but must also demonstrate the ability to successfully onboard, train, others in the Associate Level.
