Director / Associate Director of Project Management

We have an immediate, full-time opening for a Director / Associate Director of Project Management . This role is titled "Associate Director, Client Solutions" at Coefficient Health.

All potential applicants are encouraged to scroll through and read the complete job description before applying.

About Us

Based in New York City, Coefficient Health is a full-service agency team designed to be more like the commercial leaders we partner with.

In the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, we understand that driving change effectively requires expertise in more areas than ever and the ability to integrate that knowledge across teams.

Our multidimensional talent has diverse capabilities and experiences at every level. Acting as a complement, we challenge client’s thinking, translate their vision, and execute with innovation and excellence to help them multiply their efforts.

As their organization and brands evolve, we scale to provide the support they need from pre-commercial to LOE. Our promise to clients is this : at Coefficient Health, we solve for you.

So together, we can solve for more.

About You

Are you an organized team leader? A problem solver? Detail-oriented? Adaptable? We need directors with a passion for pharma advertising.

Experts who thrive on complex, multi-disciplinary projects. Big-picture thinkers who can balance the demands of launches and timelines.

And team players who manage with confidence, strategy, and precision.

Primary Responsibilities : As a Director / Associate Director of Project Management, you will be responsible for guiding and optimizing the performance of a high-profile, multi-disciplinary team to ensure successful client delivery.

This role goes beyond traditional project oversight, requiring strategic alignment with complex portfolios, staffing + resourcing, and budget management, as well as advancing client relationships and ensuring operational excellence across projects.

• Own responsibility for the success of the collective team and delivery to client.
• Oversee, manage, and support a growing team on a high profile, high performance client.
• Oversee definition of annual scopes, staff plans, and roadmaps within assigned portfolio, ensuring alignment with long-term annual marketing plans.
• Track and manage budgets for high risk / high complexity projects within assigned portfolio.
• Must have a proven track record of contributing to client relationship building in partnership with Account Team.
• Lead client meetings, communications, and follow-ups in deliverable project planning.
• Monitor and optimize holistic staff allocation within assigned portfolio to ensure alignment with account funding, staff level to complexity.
• Identify and mitigate resourcing gaps, opportunities, or redundancy among direct and indirect reports.
• Monitor cross-discipline staffing, resources, and burn rates for assigned portfolio to ensure tracking towards strategic and financial goals and alignment with annual marketing plans and budgets.
• Help grow existing account business, mitigate risks, and identify new opportunities.
• Validate monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast through collaboration with resourcing and project management teams.
• Share key learnings to inform future resourcing needs.
• Consult with utilization lead on cross-discipline program / portfolio staffing and burn rates, utilization, and resource / hiring requests.
• Partner with agency business leads to optimize financial processes across partners to ensure compliance, quality, and efficiency.
• Serve as escalation point for teams across clients within program.
• Enable and promote best practices and ensure new processes are documented, shared, and advocated.
• Optimize processes related to contract compliance and ensures new processes are documented, shared / trained, and advocated.
• Advance agency’s project management best practices, processes, and tools; support training and onboarding for new hires.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU : You will work directly with the partners of Coefficient Health. You will collaborate with a team of smart, ambitious, and supportive people.

You will grow your skills in multiple dimensions. You will take ownership of your work and be challenged. If you rise to the challenges of your position, you will grow fast, do more and be rewarded.

Position offers competitive pay with benefits based on experience and qualifications. The salary range for this role at the associate director level is $135,000-$165,000 / yr.

Desired Skills + Experience :

• 7-10 years of project management experience within an advertising agency or with multi-agency teams across disciplines.
• Experience working on pharmaceutical advertising team(s) in an agency environment required.
• Pharmaceutical launch experience required.
• Must be client facing with a client service sensibility, able to lead and manage client communications and meetings as appropriate.
• Solid track record of successfully leading projects from initiation to completion on time, on budget, and within scope, including resource management across disciplines.
• Able to manage project planning from start to finish across complex projects running in parallel.
• Complete understanding of principles of marketing and communications planning, including strategy, creative, and production practices.
• This role requires regular in-office presence with a minimum of three days per week, to engage and collaborate in in-person team interactions and meetings as required.

If you are a seasoned Director or Associate Director with expertise in project management, client service, and leading high-performing teams, we want to hear from you.

Please submit your resume and cover letter to be considered for this dynamic opportunity.

J-18808-Ljbffr