Design Project Manager
GCI Health, United States

The Design Project Manager role is primarily focused on supporting the project management team’s delivery of design projects. Their focus will be on organizing documentation for project initiation, collaboration with the Design team, tracking kick-off progress, budgets and projections are addressed, and aid Program Directors with resourcing. To do this they should have great administrative skills, a creative approach and superb attention to detail.

GCI Health is a forward-thinking healthcare public relations agency powered by best-in-the-business professionals who know no boundaries for fearlessly tackling the complex challenges our clients are facing today and tomorrow. At GCI Health, we come to work every day ready to apply know-how and passion to our roles as healthcare communicators. With our insider’s knowledge of high science, digital health strategy, crisis management, patient advocacy and consumer activation, our focus on delivering results is unrelenting and second to none. Clients benefit from an unmatched and accessible senior level leadership team, A-to-Z healthcare experience, a commitment to beating their expectations, and an obsession with anticipating the challenges to be addressed in an increasingly complex and transforming healthcare communications environment. Our client roster includes a diverse array of pharmaceutical companies, non-profit organizations, and hospitals.

Requirements

Role amp; Responsibilities:

• Support the initiation work streams for various types of Design projects (spanning print design, corporate branding materials, web production, banner advertising, email marketing campaigns.)
  • Includes monitoring new/incoming request
  • Maintains forms and project details; ensures submissions are complete prior to briefing/kickoff meetings
  • Works collaboratively and closely with the Senior Design and Video PMs and can seamlessly coordinate multiple projects at once
  • Understands Design team structures and can communicate to relevant leads when initiating staffing and project planning
• Coordination meetings across account team and PMs and facilitates collaboration across teams
• Assists senior PMs in tracking and responding to project finance needs:
  • Collaborates with GCIH finance to pull reports proactively and flag status to senior leads
  • Assists with projection oversight and cross-team coordination and outreach
  • Supports senior PMs with initiating/ongoing coordination across freelancer/vendor agreements and creating POs
• Aides with asset library/branding maintenance and organization

• Intellectually curious, positive attitude, and a strong desire to be part of a close-knit, focused team is a must.
• Excited by processes and creating systems to organize assets and files.
• Innovative and forward thinking and bring new creative project management tools and ideas to the table

• Researches new design trends and stays up to date on new, innovative design technology
• Collaboration is key in our Creative field; Be inspired by others and open to new ways of thinking and communicating
• People-cantered mentality- everything we design and create comes from a need to tell a people-centred story. Be passionate about helping to tell these stories!
• Communication between Account and Design can often involve a good amount of translating. You are motivated to translate complex ideas into the creative language so that we can seamlessly work and build great ideas together

• Communicates clearly and is solutions-oriented

• Learn to develop creative and technical judgement and strive for the best work every time. If you don’t think it’s good enough, say why and work with the team to improve on it before it moves on.
• Ensure you are driving quality at every stage of the project and for the team!

The job will open opportunities for an individual interested in furthering their career in Creative Project Management and Creative Operations.

Experience amp; Skills Required:

• 2-5 years of experience working in project management, resourcing or other operational roles for creative teams
• Experience using project management tools, budget/time tracking tools
• Understanding of the creative production process
• Experience working in the Adobe Creative suite is ideal
• Experience in an agency environment preferred
• Healthcare experience preferred but not required

• Ideal candidate has a background or understanding of 2D design and creative processes

• Is comfortable with remote working environment and can navigate Microsoft Office to host and be a part of virtual meetings and ki

Job Rewards and Benefits