Senior Project Manager

Company Description

 

What took you so long?! We’ve been waiting for you. Yep, you read that right. We are looking for you to bring your authentic self to work every day because we know that it’s not what you do that makes you different; it’s how you do it that makes you truly unique. And we’re not just saying it, our people think that too—helping us to be named an Ad Age Best Place to Work in 2022.

 

We know you are not your resume; we understand you are not your work, and we respect that you are so much more than a job description. You are you.

 

We’re interested in you—are you interested in us? Keep reading, and let us know.

 

At Razorfish Health, we are fueling the practice of modern medicine. RFH is built for the modern age of medicine. We have a deep commitment to science, technology, and innovation to help health care providers and patients make better connections for better outcomes. Our focus is on future trends and disruptors that will shape how medicine is practiced today, creating a healthier tomorrow.

 

We support that promise with 300+employees across three office locations in New York City // Philadelphia // Chicago and many remote employees. We have 12 team members with MDs, PharmDs, or PhDs, and 5 of the top 8 pharma companies on our roster. 

Overview

Senior Project Managers lead the delivery of complex projects, integrated campaigns, and multi-workstream initiatives across capabilities, channels, partners, and stakeholders.

 

Senior Project Managers bring structure without slowing momentum. They are proactive problem solvers who thrive in complexity, challenge assumptions, and find smart ways forward when scope, timing, budget, resources, or priorities compete. They are trusted to think critically, make sound recommendations, and help teams move through ambiguity with clarity and confidence.

 

This role partners closely with clients, internal teams, and external partners to protect quality, strengthen project health, and create the conditions for teams to do their best work. In an environment where roles, skills, tools, and ways of working continue to evolve, Senior Project Managers help teams successfully adopt new approaches while maintaining delivery quality, clarity, and accountability. Senior Project Managers operate with a high degree of autonomy and may coach, mentor, or career-manage less experienced Project Management team members.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Design delivery approaches that balance client ambition, team capacity, and business outcomes.
• Anticipate risks, dependencies, and downstream impacts across interconnected workstreams before they affect delivery outcomes.
• Challenge assumptions, pressure-test plans, and uncover smarter paths through complex delivery challenges.
• Lead trade-off decisions when scope, timing, budget, resources, or priorities compete.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, improve, and modernize how work gets done, including the use of AI, automation, workflow tools, and new delivery approaches.

Delivery

• Lead complex projects from planning through final delivery across multiple workstreams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Own scope, timing, budgets, forecasts, and resources across complex initiatives, identifying risks, evaluating options, and guiding teams toward the best path forward.
• Treat budgets as a strategic management tool, using financial insight to solve problems, protect value, and guide decisions.
• Surface financial risks, efficiencies, and opportunities early, helping teams and clients make informed decisions that protect delivery and business outcomes.
• Manage change with clarity, helping stakeholders understand implications, options, and recommended paths forward.
• Drive the decisions, actions, and accountability needed to deliver strong work.

Knowledge

• Apply strong project management and operational expertise to guide teams through complexity with confidence.
• Build clear scopes, estimates, forecasts, and project plans that make smart delivery decisions easier.
• Use data, tools, and reporting to create visibility, sharpen decisions, and keep work moving.
• Apply broad understanding of clients, business objectives, delivery models, and agency operations to guide stronger decisions and outcomes.
• Evaluate and recommend practical uses of tools, technology, automation, and AI that improve visibility, efficiency, and delivery outcomes.

Leadership

• Build trust with clients, teams, and stakeholders through clarity, judgment, and follow-through.
• Create alignment by distilling complex situations into clear priorities, decisions, risks, and next steps.
• Lead difficult conversations with confidence, context, and a solutions-focused mindset.
• Lead teams through difficult decisions by bringing options, recommendations, and a clear path forward.
• Help teams adapt to evolving roles, skills, tools, and ways of working by bringing a continuous improvement mindset and a practical approach to change.
• Stay steady under pressure and help teams move forward with confidence.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• 5-7 years of agency or client-side marketing, healthcare, or related experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and delivery teams.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and sound judgment.
• The ability to bring clarity and momentum to ambiguity.
• Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to build alignment and navigate competing priorities.
• Curiosity about new tools, technology, and AI, paired with practical application.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

 

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

 

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMTTACompliance@publicis.com.

 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

 

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Compensation Range: USD $75,050.00 - USD $120,159.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/5/2026.