Senior Project Manager (Health/Pharma Advertising)

Who we are

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is a creative agency operating in the health and wellness space.

We work with people we believe in to make work the world can believe in, and we do this by combining the type of interrogative thinking you only find in a high science agency, with the type of brand magic you only find in a creative agency.

It’s this unique point of difference that’s helped us achieve fame for both our clients and their brands in everything from aesthetics, supplements, and fertility, to endocrinology, dermatology, and oncology.

And the cherry, if you’re looking for one, is that we’re part of Publicis Groupe. So working with us gets you access to all manner of interesting people with an almost limitless depth and breadth of skills and experience.

The Role

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is looking for a Senior Project Manager to work across a wide variety of projects and tasks, leading your project team through all stages of the project lifecycle making sure we are financially aware, have the right resource in place and are hitting our deadlines.

The Senior Project Manager is the go-to person to solve our challenges, make correct commercial decisions, and enable our creativity, expertise and craft to shine.

You will be confident bringing all team members on that journey, communicating with all levels of stakeholders and helping other team members to do the same. You will have outstanding attention to detail, a logical approach and great communication skills, flagging and mitigating risks while driving towards the end goal.

What you will do:

• Act as Lead Project Manager on a client or set of accounts.
• Plan and lead projects assigned projects and take responsibility for overall delivery
• Lead programmes of work and be responsible for ensuring all workstreams run concurrently
• Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects
• Track the financial health of your projects through burn reports and reconciliations
• Track timelines and ensure on time project delivery
• Build internal and external relationships and communicate with clarity and certainty
• Support and mentor other team members with reports, tracking and administration tasks
• Manage resource bookings
• Highlight risks and provide solutions
• Work with 3rd parties for services and take responsibility for their delivery
• Act as a positive advocate for the project management team

Who you are:

• Currently working as a Senior Project Manager within a health advertising agency (or experienced Project Manager looking to step up)
• Proven experience working with pharmaceutical clients
• Experience leading large multi-faceted clients
• Experience of creating production and project strategies for multiple brands
• Experience of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery

Please note: we work on a hybrid basis, with 3 days per week based from our office in West London.

Additional Info

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• “YOU” DAYS - flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week.

OUR DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

At Publicis Groupe UK, we’re committed to creating a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive. This begins with striving to ensure our recruitment process is welcoming and allows equal access to opportunity for people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, neurodiversity, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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