Associate Digital Project Manager

Digital Solutions at VMLY&R Health, a WPP agency

Location – London (SE1) hybrid

(VMLY&R is one of the top-three best places to work in marketing and advertising - LinkedIn’s Top Companies in Marketing & Advertising 2022)

About us:

Digital Solutions at VMLY&R Health (a WPP agency) is entirely focused on digital platforms for medical affairs, field medicine and commercial teams in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

We build innovative, enterprise-grade, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms - connecting people across the health ecosystem.

We have a rich history of using technology to enable and support medical research, data management and analytics services. We focus on digital innovation including using machine learning and AI. We help our partners to be more effective with their time, people, data, and resources by supporting them with strategic engagement planning, event approval, digital contracting, virtual meetings, field insight collection and analysis and key opinion leader (KOL) profiling.

Our culture

We put our people first! We invest time and effort in helping them thrive in a relaxed, social and collaborative environment so that they can grow and be innovative. We believe in a healthy work-life balance; therefore we provide hybrid and flexible working hours - not to mention our world class benefits.

About the role

We are looking for an Associate Digital Project Manager to join our friendly and supportive team. This is an exciting time to join, as the company is heading into a growth phase, which means you will be given the opportunity to thrive in an engaging and fast-paced environment, and to make a difference on an everyday basis. The role would suit someone with previous digital / digital agency experience who is looking to hone their PM and AM skills in a hybrid role.

Key responsibilities and day to day activities

• Working across multiple complex projects to implement our software whilst developing your skills to lead
• Providing outstanding support to project managers and directors
• Managing clients’ requirements across configuration, implementation, launch and post-launch of software
• Assisting and occasionally leading meetings, presentations, product demonstrations and training directly with clients
• Identifying opportunities to grow accounts
• A determined and resourceful approach to problem-solving technical challenges
• Helping implement client requests for innovation or change to existing platforms, including providing direction to development and QA teams and other vendors to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
• Helping to deliver launch meetings / demonstrations / on-boarding and end-user training of the platform to clients via teleconference and occasionally in person (occasional travel to Europe and US)
• Supporting wider new business activity by contributing to proposals and joining pitches
• Developing impeccable project management skills, including financial forecasting and reporting
• Eliciting business and functional requirements from clients with other business analysts and product managers.

Experience

• Hybrid project management and account management skills; you should be able to apply different approaches appropriately to achieve results

• A commercial mindset; you will nurture business opportunities with your clients and work with our commercial team to grow accounts
• A customer focused approach to everything you do
• Client-facing skills – diplomacy, confidence and persuasiveness
• A team-player approach, able to take initiative for you own independent work and learning – alongside the skills to delegate to others and mentor new team members where appropriate
• Aptitude with technology and a drive to become an expert in our platforms
• An understanding of the software development lifecycle
• Impeccable written and oral communication skills; highly numerate and able to analyse data in Excel
• A solutions-based attitude.

Benefits

• 25 Days Holiday Entitlement
• Flexible Working Hours
• Birthday Day
• Enhanced Sick Leave
• Sabbatical Policy
• Private Medical and Dental Cover/ Free Eye Tests
• Life Assurance and Income Protection Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Pay
• Tax-Free Childcare
• Cycle-To-Work Scheme
• L&D Academy
• Wellness Lab
• Bonus.ly
• Volunteer Day
• And many more

We believe that every individual, regardless of their background, should be given equal opportunities to succeed at VMLY&R Health. We celebrate difference and work together, finding solutions to challenges as one team. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion or belief, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected class and all applications are encouraged and welcomed.


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