Company Description

Who we are

Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Policy, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients.

What we believe

Health brings us together. In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity. When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together.

A passion for craft

Having expert thinking is only part of our story. To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts: science, strategy and creativity.

Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager working within Langland's Advertising team, you will work across a wide variety of projects and tasks, leading your project team through all stages of the project lifecycle making sure we are financially aware, have the right resource in place and are hitting our deadlines.  You will also be seen as the go to person to solve our challenges and make sure everyone is on the same page.  The role is pivotal in making the correct commercial decisions for the benefit of the Agency, whilst also enabling our creativity, expertise and craft to shine.  You will be confident enough to bring all team members on that journey, communicating with all levels of stakeholders and helping other team members to do the same.  You will have outstanding attention to detail, a logical approach and great communication skills.  Financial systems, spreadsheets and timing plans come naturally to you, and you use them to flag and mitigate risks while driving always towards the end goal.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead programmes of work and be responsible for ensuring all workstreams run concurrently
• Plan and lead the way on how to approach a given project
• Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects
• Track the financial health of your projects through burn reports and reconciliations
• Support other team members with reports, tracking and administration tasks
• Manage resource bookings for your projects and work with other departments to secure the correct resource
• Constantly highlight risks and provide solutions to mitigate them
• Manage change and be flexible in changing course with the overall delivery as the focus
• Work with 3rd parties to provide services and be responsible for them delivering
• Ensure the correct approvals are in place for any work going through the agency

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar project management role within an advertising agency environment 
• Comfortable and capable leading large multi-faceted clients
• Skilled in the production and project strategies for brands or clients
• Experience of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to manage, understand and report on financial health of projects
• Understanding of resource management, forecasting and capacity planning
• Exceptional communication skills and be able to influence internal and external stakeholders, consulting and negotiating at the correct moments
• Able to lead scope, timing and budget development

*This is a hybrid role whereby you are required to work from our west London offices x3 days per week.

Additional Information

An inclusive workplace
The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Here are some of the ways we help promote diversity at Publicis Health. 

Recruitment 

• Diversity & Inclusion management 
• Anonymised CV submissions
• Mandatory unconscious bias training 
• Career and school programmes to build industry access for people from mixed socio-economic backgrounds

Culture 

• Support communities for women, LGBTQ+, BAME employees and their allies.
• A mental health programme which includes free HeadSpace membership.

Future
Publicis Groupe has committed €45 million to diversity, inclusion and social injustice within the network As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe UK is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process.  If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.