Calcium Company is an award-winning healthcare marketing agency dedicated to nourishing companies and brands across their full lifecycle. To collaborate with a broad array of diverse clients and deliver innovative solutions, we’re organized around specialty divisions that include Calcium (brand advertising), Vitamin MD (medical communications), PRotein (public relations), and Amino (oncology marketing). Our integrated strategy group, which combines brand, medical, and engagement strategy into one solution, works across Calcium Company to deliver strategy grounded in behavioral science and data analytics. We are proud of our work but equally proud of our culture and were ranked one of MM M’s 2022 Best Places to Work. Calcium Company is led by CEO Judy Capano and Group President Greg Lewis.

Calcium Company is seeking a freelance Senior Program Manager or Senior Project Manager to join our Project Management department for a 6-month contract. This position can be worked remotely or at our Philadelphia or New York City office locations.

Key Job Responsibilities (Duties may include, but are not limited to all or some of the following)

PM Methodology/Internal Process:

o Develops, manages, and supports client relationships with key accounts as assigned; identifies value-added opportunities to strengthen client/agency partnerships

o Acts as the owner of Calcium process; ensures the team adheres to the proper process

o Partners with cross-functional leads to continually evaluate the brand process and procedures to ensure efficiencies are being identified and implemented

Project Finances:

o Partners with internal stakeholders in the development of yearly statements of work (SOWs)

o Tracks and manages timelines and budgets for multiple projects; helps to forecast monthly and yearly project spends

o Manages costs and timelines across a portfolio of projects

o Is accountable for project-level forecasts for scoped projects

o Acts as a key stakeholder and leader in assuring that weekly internal brand financial meetings are taking place; works in tandem with Financial and Account Services counterparts to make sure that tactics are being managed within approved estimates

o Work to ensure that direct reports are managing and leading in the same way across the brands they service

o Together with the Associate Director and Director of Project Management, ensures that Project Managers and Senior Project Managers are managing budgets, bringing innovative solutions to their creative teams, and exploring tools to help their teams function more efficiently

Resource Allocation:

o Partners with the Associate Director and/or Director of Project Management to continually assess and ensure that operational resources are deployed and leveraged to meet brand needs (ie, balanced workloads, talent to task)

o Actively manages resource allocation with internal teams by identifying resource gaps and working to proactively fill with internal resources and/or resources to be identified

Internal Relationships and Team Leadership:

Managerial Skills:

o Acts as a conduit for a productive culture and drives a positive team morale

o Manages the work and performance of direct reports; serves as mentor and coach

o Authors and delivers reviews of Project Managers and Senior Project Managers while helping develop appropriate and specific goals.

o Maintains constant contact with the internal team, fulfilling requests as needed, and ensure Calcium is proactively demonstrating the value of our partnerships by aligning operationally to support client goals and objectives

· Bachelor's degree required

· 5-7 years of experience in the advertising industry (pharmaceutical preferred)

· Must have supervisory experience

· Possesses excellent leadership and communication skills

· Product launch, med/legal, and FDA 2253/OPDP submission experience

· Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Project, Excel, PowerPoint; Acrobat Professional; web-based routing and project management system administration

· Can mindfully manage deadlines, multiple tasks, and challenges

Willingness to go beyond what is described in the job description and be flexible for the team, and ultimately, the work