Job Summary:

Real Chemistry is looking for a Director, Project Management to join our growing team!

The Director provides senior oversight of project delivery for major accounts. This role sets delivery strategy, ensures consistency and profitability, and develops PM talent across the portfolio.

21GRAMS PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT

At 21GRAMS, we set the benchmark for excellence in healthcare project management. As trusted leaders, we build confidence through teamwork, ownership, and proactive risk management. We uphold our processes with accountability, deliver with precision, and communicate with clarity. Creative problem-solving, adaptability, and integrity define our work. Guided by purpose and collaboration, we inspire our teams to achieve best-in-class outcomes for every project.

21GRAMS PROJECT MANAGEMENT CORE VALUES

• Standardizing Operational Excellence: Streamline processes, ensure consistent workflows, and align tools across the agency.
• Strengthening Team Skills and External Relationships: Promote continuous learning, cross-department collaboration, and resilient client partnerships while supporting employee well-being.
• Maximizing Agency Performance and Resource Efficiency: Optimize resourcing, maintain quality control, and deploy resources effectively.
• Safeguarding Agency Health and Future Growth: Define clear scopes, monitor risks, and deliver accurate financial forecasting.
• Enhancing Industry Knowledge, Innovation and Competitive Edge: Stay ahead of compliance, track competitive trends, and drive process innovation.

This role can be remote within the United States or based in any of our U.S. office locations, including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Lambertville, NJ, San Francisco, or Carmel, IN.

What you’ll do:

• Lead delivery strategy and planning for assigned clients and business units
• Supervise Associate Directors, Senior PMs, and PMs. Coach and evaluate performance.
• Own portfolio budgets, scopes, staffing plans, and margin health.
• Partner with senior agency leadership to improve workflows and tools across the portfolio.
• Lead PM participation in pitches and solutioning for complex, cross-functional initiatives.

Portfolio Management:

• Oversight of approximately 10 million dollars in revenue.
• Lead PM on pitches. Owner of cross-functional integrated solutions. Resource Management:
• Own resourcing solutions based on provided data. Partner with resourcing team.
• Conduct candidate interviews. Own escalation for Gantt development and issues. Client and Vendor Relationship Management:
• Brand planning leader for PM. Support client solutioning. Manage vendor relationships. Training, Growth, Reporting: Identify growth opportunities for direct reports. Increase exposure for upward mobility

Admin Operations:

• Provide topline oversight across project financials in OpenAir and Power BI.
• Drive adoption of systems. Recommend AI initiatives on project scopes where suitable

Execution:

• Step back from day-to-day. Own higher strategic assets and execute at the portfolio level.
• Implement process improvements across the portfolio.

Finance:

• Develop and review scopes, change orders, and staff plans for the portfolio.
• Lead finance communications and analyze staffing mix.

Culture, Comms and Collaboration:

• Guide cultural investment plans. Address issues proactively with Account and HR partners.

This position is a perfect fit for you if:

• Our Company values, Best Together, Impact Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always, and Accountability with an "I", genuinely resonate with how you work and lead.
• You demonstrate the Real Chemistry Can mindset by approaching challenges with optimism, accountability, creativity, and a solutions-oriented attitude, always looking for ways to make a meaningful impact for our clients, colleagues, and communities.
• You are adaptable, resilient, and comfortable adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment. As our business grows and changes, so do we.
• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful, with strong prioritization skills, intellectual curiosity, and a desire to leverage data to inform decisions and drive outcomes.
• You are energized by innovation and the transformative potential of AI, actively exploring new technologies, identifying opportunities to work smarter, and championing practical, responsible AI adoption that drives meaningful business impact.

What you should have:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• PMP or Agile certification preferred.
• Expert financial management and operational planning skills. Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and client-facing abilities.
• 10 or more years in project management with extensive healthcare communications experience.
• Proven record of leading large teams and multichannel campaigns.

Pay Range: $150,000-$160,000
The anticipated salary range for this position is listed above. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal parity.

In addition to base salary, Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefits package and a variety of programs designed to support our employees' well-being, growth, and success.

Real Chemistry reserves the right to update compensation and benefits programs at any time.