Digital Project Manager - The Planet Group

Planet Interactive is seeking a Digital Project Manager to join an in-house agency for a well-known pharmaceutical company. This role requires an experienced digital project manager preferably with Pharma or similar industry experience to work in a fast-paced agency like environment delivering multiple small-to large scale digital tactics including websites, email, banners, apps and more.

• Pay: $35-$40/hr depending on experience 
• Location: Hybrid needs to be local to one of the 3 locations - Irvine, CA, Mettawa, IL or NJ

Digital Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Have a complete view of all active web projects for the therapeutic area assigned and take an active role in moving projects forward by partnering with the web specialists’ team.
• Collaborate within a cross functional team throughout the workday, performing proactive identification of potential challenges and supporting the web team to ensure on-time project delivery.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and document issues and recommend process-based solutions.
• Understand AEM Authoring environment and the client's publishing process in order to help assess best delivery strategy.
• Be able to support the web specialist team members with Veeva submission tasks for projects and track project status while projects are in Veeva.
• Lead status calls and facilitate in efficient manner that benefits the web channels team: bring awareness to potential risks and connect the dots btwn projects within the therapeutic area assigned that the specialists should know about.
• Help with estimation process for a category of project type by supporting the web specialist team with potential consultation from appropriate tech teams.

Digital Project Manager Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• A solid understanding of technical development responsive websites, emails, banners and iPad application development.
• 3+ years of experience contributing to enterprise website that include migration and online production (using AEM and/or other web content management system).
• Strong understanding of Web Development.
• Competency with web UX conventions and standards, including accessibility and SEO.
• General knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
• MS Office Suites background (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Experience with project tracking through Jira / Confluence, Smartsheet, Trello, Workfront.
• Proficiency in Google Drive Sheets, Docs and Slides.
• Exposure to Agile development process preferred.
• Experience in pharmaceuticals or another highly regulated industry preferred.
• Experience with Veeva is plus.
• Experience with Workfront is a plus.

Digital Project Manager Competencies:

• Self-motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational/time management, planning/prioritization skills and troubleshooting skills.
• Requires strong collaboration and people skills to be effective managing through a highly matrixed organization.
• Effective negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Extreme attention to detail and follow-through on execution.
• Comfortable juggling multiple, concurrent with tight deadlines.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to handle escalated situations.
• Proven ability to build relationships and work independently.
• Professional manner and approach in working within a team.
• Acumen for how digital agencies operate: scope of work process/mgmt., timelines.
• Inquisitive, strong analytical skills, including the ability to infer and apply learnings.
• Outstanding communicator and comfortable interacting with a diverse group of technical and non-technical people.

Key Leadership Competencies:

• Positive “all for one” approach to team deliverables and priorities.
• Builds strong relationships to enable higher performance.
• Learns, fast, grasps the “essence” and can change course quickly where indicated.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Creates a learning environment and open to suggestions.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.