Senior Project Manager (Finance)
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Edelman is looking for aSenior Project Managerto join our growing team supporting integrated, high-impact health communications. If you're an experienced project leader with a passion for production-heavy, social-first campaigns - and the ability to bring clarity and calm to complex, fast-moving work - this could be your next move.
In this role, you'll help lead day-to-day operations across a major pharmaceutical client. You'll manage social content development, event activation support, creative asset production, and cross-functional team alignment. It's a chance to own the details, drive the big picture, and collaborate closely with strategists, creatives, earned media experts, and digital specialists in a truly integrated team.
What You'll Do
- Drive daily project operations across workstreams - including social campaigns, video and static asset development, and event support
- Own timelines, status trackers, and follow-ups with clarity and consistency
- Guide internal teams to align around client needs and priorities, often without a traditional account lead
- Coordinate across specialties - creative, strategy, paid, social, earned, and digital - to keep work moving and unlock solutions
- Develop and maintain project scopes, staffing plans, and documentation with minimal oversight
- Partner with Finance to track budget burn and anticipate future resourcing and financial needs
- Support milestone planning for clinical, data-driven, and branded campaigns
- Contribute to the evolution of team process and workflow, constantly looking for ways to improve how we operate
Basic Qualifications
- A skilled project manager with 5-7 years of experience, preferably in PR, marketing, or digital agency environments
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
Who You Are
- Deeply familiar with social-first campaign delivery and content production - including video and static creative packages
- Confident navigating healthcare or pharma client relationships (oncology experience a plus)
- A proactive communicator who leads through detail, structure, and thoughtful follow-up
- Skilled in project planning and tools like Smartsheet, with financial acumen to support tracking and forecasting
- Energized by cross-functional teamwork and managing up/down/across effectively
- Calm under pressure, with a bias for action and a passion for problem-solving
$72,000 - $105,000 a year
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An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.
Edelman offers a wide range of benefits: medical and dental insurance, vision, 401K, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, travel assistance and wellness programing.
Edelman is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.
