Associate Director – Project Management

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Lucid Group

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201 - 500 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Consulting • Marketing

Lucid Group is a global strategic communications and consulting agency specializing in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. With roughly 500–600 specialists across multiple locations, the firm delivers strategy consulting, scientific and medical communications, and commercial communications to pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, supporting clinical development, medical affairs, asset commercialization, and stakeholder engagement. Lucid emphasizes data- and science-driven approaches to shape clinical standards, build consensus guidelines, and drive market growth for its clients.

📋 Description

• Lead planning and delivery of multiple complex projects and integrated workstreams across life sciences accounts • Translate client objectives and strategic direction into clear, achievable project plans • Own integrated timelines, milestones, dependencies, approval pathways, risk plans and delivery standards across the project lifecycle • Establish project operating rhythms, including kickoffs, reviews, status meetings, client updates and post-project assessments • Clarify priorities, accountabilities, decision points and next steps for project teams • Serve as a senior escalation point for project risks, workflow challenges and competing priorities • Lead planning for materials requiring Medical/Legal/Regulatory review • Coordinate with medical, legal, regulatory and client stakeholders to identify compliance, claims, fair balance, labeling and approval risks • Maintain working knowledge of FDA promotional requirements for pharmaceutical and biotech brand communications • Develop scopes of work, estimates, timelines and resource plans with account leadership • Monitor budgets, burn, hours, forecasts and project profitability • Track scope changes and support change orders, revised estimates, forecasting, reconciliation, invoicing and financial reporting • Anticipate staffing needs and resolve resource constraints with department leads and Resource Management • Guide, coach and mentor Project Managers and Senior Project Managers • Develop project management best practices, tools, templates and training • Build trusted client relationships and advise on project planning, delivery, budgets, timelines and risk management • Represent project management in client meetings and planning discussions • Support new business through operational planning and resource modeling • Contribute to agency initiatives improving how Lucid plans and delivers work

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Project Management or a related field • 7–10 years of project management experience within a healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical communications, advertising or creative agency environment • Experience supporting commercial communications for pharmaceutical or biotech brands • Strong working knowledge of Medical/Legal/Regulatory review processes and US promotional communications regulations • Experience managing complex, integrated projects across multiple functions, channels and stakeholders • Experience with project financials, including estimates, scopes of work, budgets, forecasting, burn tracking and reconciliation • Experience leading, mentoring or developing project management talent • Strong understanding of agency workflow, resource planning and cross-functional team operations • Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation and problem-solving skills • Ability to manage competing priorities, influence without direct authority and confidently escalate risks • Proficiency with project management tools such as Smartsheet, Workfront, Asana or comparable platforms, plus Microsoft Office • Preferred: experience supporting new business pitches, launch planning or large-scale integrated campaigns in a regulated healthcare environment • Preferred: willingness to travel occasionally for client meetings, team sessions or agency events

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful learning and development opportunities • Inclusive and accommodating recruitment process • Occasional travel for client meetings, team sessions or agency events (preferred qualification, not compensation)

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