Senior Project Manager

Agency:

Propeller

Job Function:

Projects and Performance Improvement

Job Subfunction:

Project and Program Management

Job Description:

About Propeller 

Propeller is a full‑service healthcare marketing agency with a focus in digital transformation. Propeller partners with pharma and medtech clients to reimagine commercial growth through tailored, modern solutions leveraging its end‑to‑end capabilities across experience strategy, emerging tech, AI as well as legacy creative, client services, and everything in between. With a team of 150 digital-native specialists - and the power of the Omnicom Health ecosystem behind us—we blend scale and resources with a culture defined by grit, passion, and authenticity.  Headquartered in Summit, NJ, with talent placed globally, we have been named as MM+M’s Best Places to Work in 2025, as well as awarded for by DigiDay for excellence in onboarding and best workplaces for working parents. 

If you want to help drive the future of healthcare marketing, bring fresh and progressive thinking, and thrive operating with agility, we want to meet you! 

Title: Senior Project Manager 

Senior Project Managers will have a hands-on senior leadership role within our Project Management department. They are responsible for the oversight, leadership, assistance, and support of our pharma/medical device business teams in shepherding digital projects on assigned business units, from project initiation through completion. Senior Project Managers will have a team of direct reports, offering guidance and mentorship to Digital Project Managers. They will have oversight on daily responsibilities and tasks to keep their assigned business units running smoothly. 

  

Job Responsibilities: 

  

Project Management 

• Manage multiple projects and priorities on across assigned brands, being accountable for project results and drive decision-making along with brand leaders, direct report staff, and external stakeholders 

• Create detailed roadmaps and project plans, overseeing the day-to-day operation of a cross-functional team operating in a nimble and agile process 

• Own the full lifecycle of projects on assigned brands from initiation to through final submission 

• Prioritize tasks, communicate deliverables, ensure the team stays on targets with budgets and deadlines and regularly communicate with senior leadership on the status of projects, escalating issues as needed 

• Work with brand leaders and cross-functional team members, to holistically manage the delivery of assets across various platforms and navigate competing priorities, allocating project management resources appropriately, and effectively clearing roadblocks. 

• Ensure status meetings, hot sheets, timelines, and meeting notes are prepared for all assigned projects and escalate to senior management as needed 

  

People Management 

• Oversee people management activities including recruitment, hiring, onboarding, weekly check-ins, goal setting, performance activities, and evaluations 

• Provide mentorship and career development for assigned project managers, positioning team members to take on new opportunities and growth 

• Improve effective resource utilization on the project management team, and drive reductions in project costs through forward planning, resource allocations, and coordination 

  

Relationship Management 

• Work with the internal account and digital production brand counterparts to develop detailed and effective plans and monitor all aspects of project lifecycle, including scope, change and submission management 

• Coordinate and inspire internal resources and external partners to deliver high quality, forward thinking, digital assets that align to client/brand goals 

  

Risk Management & Analysis 

• Analyze production workflows to find efficiency gaps and collaborate with project management peers and senior leadership to standardize workflows 

• Enable rapid production decision-making through visibility into project data, including risk analysis and mitigation strategies, and cost avoidance opportunities 

  

Operations & Best Practices 

• Evaluate new digital management technology as part of recommended operation solutions 

• Create and maintain visualization diagrams for existing and proposed workflows, process guides, and training materials 

• Review plans and documents with brand leadership peers to secure sign off from senior leadership 

  

Minimum Requirements:  

  

• 5-10 years of experience in a project management role 

• Ability to run large scale, complex projects 

• Experience managing diverse projects include websites, iVAs, banners, and emails 

• Comfortable in a leadership position; the role will be client-facing 

• Experience in managing project scope and profitability 

• Advanced proficiency with project management software such as Ziflow, Smartsheets, and Workfront 

• Experience with Agile processes is a bonus   

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$75,500 - $120,500

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