Senior Vice President, Project Management

About Ogilvy Health

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities— Advertising, Experience, Public Relations, Health, and Consulting work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries to bring forth world-class creative solutions for our clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Network of the Year (Campaign)
• One of the “Best Places to Work” for LGBTQ+ equality (Human Right’s Council’s Corporate Equality Index)
• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)
• Network of the Year (One Show)
• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)
• Garner Magic Quadrant Leader
• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)
• …and Ogilvy was the only agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100

For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

About the Role  

The Project Management Office at Ogilvy Health is responsible for project execution, process improvement, budget management and resource management across the agency. Our Project Management Team assembles and leads interdisciplinary teams, ensures adherence to workflow, schedules and budgets, and delivers with excellence for our clients. We are looking for an SVP of Project Management to lead our dynamic team of PMs and support operational excellence across the agency. The ideal candidate has a big-picture mindset, loves to solve problems creatively, pushes for continual process improvement, and is passionate about building and leading teams.

What You’ll Do 

• Lead Project Management function for OH, spanning multi-channel AOR client engagements in pharmaceutical, health, and wellness categories
• Act as a role model for Project Management and PMO capabilities across agency; shares knowledge, explains processes and provides training as needed
• Mentor, train, and directly supervise including managing their workload, work product and successful project delivery
• Collaborate with PMO leadership on the design, documentation and training for all agency delivery processes and systems
• Maintain high-performing team dynamics through empathy, trust, communication, and collaboration
• Partner with Business Management and Resource Management leads to design operational workflows and implement process changes
• Perform a client-facing role for existing clients or new business opportunities as needed, participating in high-level planning meetings and attending key client meetings as project management SME (subject matter expert)
• Suggest ways to leverage internal expertise, learn from past successes or failures, and take advantage of synergies across clients

What You’ll Need    

• 12+ years agency project management experience, specifically within healthcare communications, advertising, or medical communications
• Extensive experience managing and executing digital projects
• Proven financial skills and experience managing $25M+ of revenue
• Extensive people management experience

How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.