Head of Project Management

Syneos Health maintains a dynamic, fast-paced working environment. Each day contains different challenges and opportunities to learn. We take promising ideas, turn them into commercial realities, and manage the life of a product or device from its inception to its completion.

We demand the best from our people but in return we offer a creative environment designed to allow you to be yourself and achieve your potential. We also offer unparalleled career development opportunities and brilliant benefits.

We are seeking an experienced Head of Project Management to lead our dynamic project management team within the Advertising division. This pivotal role involves strategic support to clients and internal senior stakeholders, providing leadership, direction, and mentorship to the project management team, and owning the project management function to ensure excellence in delivery and efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership and Client Support:
  • Serve as a key strategic partner to both clients and internal teams, offering high-level project management guidance and insights.
  • Lead strategic planning sessions with senior stakeholders to align project management practices with business objectives.
  • Drive innovation in project delivery, ensuring our advertising solutions meet the evolving needs of our clients and the market.
• Management and Mentorship:
  • Oversee the project management team, providing leadership, direction, and development opportunities.
  • Mentor project managers and junior project managers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth.
  • Ensure the team is equipped with the necessary skills and resources to achieve their goals effectively.
• Operational Excellence:
  • Own the project management function, continuously evaluating and improving processes and systems for better efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Ensure all projects are delivered on time, within scope, and budget, maintaining the highest quality standards.
  • Develop and implement project management best practices, tools, and metrics to measure and report on project performance.
• Financial Management:
  • Work closely with the finance department to ensure projects are accurately budgeted, financial forecasts are met, and billing processes are efficient.
  • Provide oversight on financial status of projects, ensuring profitability and financial health.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
  • Collaborate with client service teams, creative teams, and other departments to ensure seamless integration and delivery of projects.
  • Foster strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to ensure successful project outcomes.

Requirements:

• Significant experience in project management within the advertising or related sector, with relevant and extended experience in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering complex advertising projects across multiple platforms and markets.
• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to provide high-level strategic guidance.
• Exceptional leadership and people management skills, with a focus on mentorship and development of teams.
• Excellent financial acumen, with experience in budget management and financial forecasting.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, capable of working effectively with both clients and internal teams.
• A deep understanding of the advertising industry, current trends, and digital technologies.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

The diverse European healthcare environment requires a specific approach to communications. The European market provides multiple challenges to the pharmaceutical industry, emerging biotechnology and medical technology firms who develop, launch, and commercialise drugs and devices. Deep and varied local and international insights, experience, capabilities and footprints are required for impactful healthcare communications in Europe because of the high diversity in local regulations, health systems, market dynamics, key stakeholders’ perceptions, as well as cultural nuances and languages. A next-generation agency group that offers the perfect combination of global size and unprecedented capabilities with European and local expertise. As a part of Syneos Health, a global biopharmaceutical accelerator integrating clinical development, real-world, late-stage and full commercialisation, we serve the complex European healthcare market with tailored communications solutions for our customers’ clinical and commercial success.

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