Project Manager New Ontario

At BGBx ,we'redriven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking createsbreakthroughimpact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges.

Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day.

If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.

The Project Manageris responsible forinternally leading project(s) frominceptionto execution. This includes planning, execution and managing thepeopleresources and scope of the project(s). Ensuring functional team alignment so that activities and deliverables formedium sizecomplexity projects/accounts are executed on time, on budget, at the highest possible level of quality. In addition, the Project Manager supports client engagements andconformtoagencyprocess.

The Project Manager is an important member of the team(s), working closely with the account and functional department project leads to meet and exceed performance targets, foster a positive work environment, and serves as a model of professionalism and a reflection of the agency’s personality and culture.

Planning:

• Partners with Account to apply experience across program mix, technologies, and promotional channels to deliver innovative solutions,leveragingagency capabilities that address client needs
• Creates and manages project workplans at the program level, partnering with Account to define project requirements and success metrics and Resource Management to develop appropriate staffplans
• Creates risk mitigation plan (when needed) with possible scenarios and solutions for projects based on executional experience as well as specific areas of project uncertainty
• Collaborates with functional department project leads to evolve agency service delivery process and toolset

• Manages execution of work on assigned projects, holding all team members accountable to the delivery of their assigned work,maintainingprojects SOPs, and adhering to quality control practices
• Manages and documents work status/hotsheetsensuring that team is tracking appropriately to the workplan
• Proactively tracks resource needs across projects and alerts resource manager of unfulfilled gaps or capacity
• Actively mitigates risk byanticipatingpotential executional barriers,identifyingquality, budget, and timeline impacts, and developingpossible solutionswithappropriate inputand collaboration
• Identifies and documents internal changes in scope or workplan and alerts Account if client follow-up is needed
• Resolves executional issues in partnership with account, ensuring appropriate team communication and escalation as warranted

• Participates in client status/execution meetings as needed to support communication/understanding of executional tasks and processes
• Partners with Account to help problem-solve executional challenges

• Works with Account lead to define team processes, communicationsplanand rules of engagement, and manages team adherence
• Develops and deploys consistent project documentation including scopes of work, project plans, solution blueprints, project definition plans, contact/status/reports/hotsheets
• Collaborates with department leads to develop, document, anddisseminateclear workflow plans and staff assignments to support execution of work
• Employes agencymethodologyfor estimating project hours, fee, and costs and provides solid rationale
• Partners with Account torepresentagency financialobjectiveswhen communication and negotiating budgets and amendments
• Monitors staffing and expenditures across team to ensure actualsremainin line with estimates, client guidelines, and agency financial performance goals
• Maintainstimelyandappropriate communication of financial status across assigned projects to Account and supervisor based on agency SOPs
• Collaborates with Account to manage scope changes and financial reconciliations
• Supports fiscal account management with Account leads by providing information and POVs

• 2+ years of project management experience, preferably in pharmaceutical advertising or medical communications
• Expertise in managing project budgets, timelines, and resources
• Demonstrates the ability to successfully onboard and train others in the Associate Level
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to “think on your feet” and resolve issues quickly with little to no direction from…