Associate Director Project Management

McCann Health New York

An idea-driven agency that believes in the power of creativity. With deep roots in DTC and HCP advertising, the agency takes creativity, communications planning, and strategic thinking to new heights.

Associate Director, Integrated Production

Associate Director, Integrated Production has 7+ years of experience in Digital and Print media that includes experience in the healthcare marketing industry. They are a creative problem solver whose production expertise allows them to guide complex multi-channel development efforts. Strong leadership skills help them oversee a producer team’s activities, as they are accountable for the overall quality of work in conjunction with Producers, ensuring goals are met and projects are delivered on time and on budget.

They are a great leader, communicator motivator, and project manager with an innate ability to “get things done”. As a result they wear many hats. They advise producers, teams, vendors/partners, and clients on best practices, scope, schedules, and pricing, building strong relationships along the way. They oversee brand portfolios, manage teams of 2-5 producers at all levels, and participate in a department leadership team. They forge strong relationships with account leads and managing directors, advising on staffing practices and people for brand/client requirements. They partner extensively with department heads, optimizing process and ensuring operational quality control is in place. They manage the most complex tactics in the agency, including mobile apps, complex web development, IVA campaigns, CRM, and integrated programs. As a result, they wear many hats, and only one thing is for sure: no day is ever the same.

• Manage a Producer Team of Senior, Integrated, and Associate Producers, providing day-to-day guidance and oversight.

• Execute the agency’s most complex projects, including apps, large web engagements, multi-tactical programs, and experiential tactics.

• Partner with the Director and Human Resources to identify and hire new talent, ensuring the department keeps pace with growing demand.

• Establish and mentor leadership within the Producer Team, identifying growth areas, moderating conflicts, and managing performance.

• Partner with account and strategy to build annual scopes of work, tactical and staffing plans, pricing out assumption-based estimates and resourcing for each tactic on a full year plan.

• Assign accounts and projects to Producers, matching needs and providing proper coverage.

• Participate in business development activities by developing proposals, scopes, schedules, estimates, and delivering pitches.

• Manage resourcing, generate timelines and estimates, assign projects, build project plans, and update progress using the project management platform (WorkFront).

• Work with Producers to develop and approve scopes of work, schedules, and pricing based on business and functional requirements as well as enforce & manage producer team’s use of the project management platform (WorkFront).

• Responsible for enforcing objective quality criteria on all digital/print projects whenever necessary, contributing to the creative process by assessing feasibility of proposed solutions and recommending approaches.

• Communicate project status to teams and clients on a regular basis.

• Partner with Account Management to track and report project burn rates.

• Ensure proper change management documentation is executed as scope changes or project priorities shift, and that new requirements are communicated to project teams.

• Ensure User Experience deliverables meet user and business goals.

• Interface with developers developing client-side (HTML, CSS, JS) and server-side technologies (PHP, ASP.NET, SQL).

• Work with Quality Assurance to formulate and execute Test Plans.

• Develop RFP’s for outside vendors and guide selection process.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Seven years of digital/integrated producer or project management
• At least two years of experience managing the performance and progress of junior producers.
• At least four years of experience working with pharmaceutical/healthcare clients
• Four years of channel agnostic executional experience

SALARY - $80,000 - $92,000/annually

The salary range for this position is noted within this job posting. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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