OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD

Guided by this vision, Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision and cultural fluency to build healthcare’s most influential movements. We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what’s next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes.

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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 helps to assemble and lead interdisciplinary teams, ensure adherence to workflow, schedules, and budgets, and deliver with excellence for our clients. We are looking for a Project Manager to join a large-scale healthcare AOR account. The successful PM is a creative problem solver, understands and champions agency process, and thrives in a team environment.

What You’ll Do

Project Management:

• Leads a primary brand vertical, ensuring consistent quality, process adherence, and on-time, on-budget delivery, while contributing to secondary brand assignments to ensure full billability and team coverage
• Owns and manages mid-complexity, multi-channel projects from initiation to completion, providing clear direction and vision
• Develops and manages comprehensive project scope, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation plans using agency tools and project management software
• Leads day-to-day project execution, collaborating with junior and senior PM team members, internal stakeholders, and external vendors to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery
• Proactively identifies and mitigates project risks and challenges, escalating issues and proposing solutions as needed
• Conducts regular status meetings, effectively communicates project updates, and ensures alignment on deliverables and timelines

Financial Management:

• Manages project financials for projects typically ranging from $1MM–$5MM, tracking spend against budget and taking corrective action to achieve revenue targets
• Participates in weekly finance meetings, providing insights into project performance, monthly forecasting, and resource utilization

Team & Relationship Management:

• Cultivates strong relationships with clients, vendors, and internal teams to foster collaboration and ensure project success
• Leads and motivates project teams, fostering a positive and collaborative environment
• Proposes and pilots process improvements on their brand vertical, actively identifying smarter, more efficient ways of working
• Mentors and develops Brand PCs and APMs, providing guidance, training, and support
• Clearly articulates project vision, goals, and updates to diverse audiences, adapting communication style (written, verbal, presentations) to different audiences and mediums
• Proactively keeps all stakeholders informed of project progress, deadlines, and potential roadblocks
• Fosters a team environment built on open communication, trust, and mutual respect

What You’ll Need

• Minimum 3 years agency project management experience, specifically within healthcare marketing and communications
• Strong PM and production knowledge across multiple tactic types
• Launch experience a plus
• Expertise in project management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Ziflow) and proficiency with MS Office Suite, Teams, etc.
• Strong knowledge of digital routing and proofing systems
• Financial aptitude and experience in tracking budgets, forecasting, and resource utilization
• Outstanding communication (written, verbal, presentation) and interpersonal skills
• Superior organizational skills, detail-oriented, with strong time management
• Critical thinking, problem-solving, and solutions-oriented mindset
• Proven proactive drive with demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams

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.