Freelance Senior Project Manager - UK

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For the past 26 years Klick Health has helped life science clients bring their groundbreaking ideas to market. We’ve also spent that time creating an ecosystem for talented and empathetic individuals to chase their passions while creating long-lasting friendships in the process. What does that mean for you? Well, we grow a lot—like every year for 26 years and counting. And as we evolve and scale, so does our global reach. With that in mind, Klick Health is opening offices in key global markets, and hiring people from those markets who value the health of their communities.
Our philosophy is to invest in people early and to develop future leaders at all levels. It’s what’s put us on multiple Top 10 lists for workplace culture—we give people the necessary guidance and room to innovate. We know that career paths are seldom simple and straightforward, but we see that as an asset. If you feel like you'd be a good fit, please apply and join us in doing health differently.
The Project Management Office (PMO) partners with our clients and internal teams to deliver high value and quality programs, projects, and deliverables. While balancing timelines, scopes, and budgets this team collaborates with subject matter experts, client services, and client stakeholders to ensure projects meet clients’ business objectives. 
The PMO has smart, dedicated, and team-oriented individuals who work with diverse cross-functional teams to do the right thing for our clients. We apply the rigor of best practices while continually evolving our ways of working to improve our delivery and client outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinates, leads, and mentors others on project management activities
  • Applies risk mitigation across client projects
  • Leads $1.75M of revenue and manages multiple complex projects in parallel
  • Manages Scope, risk, schedule, budget, quality, and communication
  • Manages relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Cultivates strong and well-maintained relationships with clients and client teams, demonstrating awareness of client preferences throughout every interaction point
  • Actively looks for project or process efficiencies in order to elevate the project management craft
  • Helps resolve resourcing conflicts
  • Participates in staff planning and solutioning conversations
  • Is aware of project metrics against defined portfolio targets and understands the impact that decisions have on metrics. Knows reconciliations and understands how and what they impact (profit, loss, use of contingency, discounted WOs, etc)Coaches Project Manager/Project Coordinator on craft and best practices
  • Onboard Project Managers on the team

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced communication and presentation skills
  • Advanced business and financial acumen
  • Exceptional interpersonal and collaboration skills
  • Exceptional client service mindset, in both delivery and solutions
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Proficient with project management tools and technologies, such as Microsoft Projects, Smartsheets, TFS, Jira, financial processing / tools
  • Proficient in change management strategies and systems’ implementations
  • Solid understanding of agency/marketing/sales environment
  • Experience in digital, CRM, software development, digital/interactive and/or new media projects
  • Working experience with both waterfall + agile methodologies
  • Understanding of SCRUM methodology
  • Post secondary Education 5+ years of project management experience or3+ years of agency project management experience
  • Certifications considered but not mandatory
  • Comfort with and enthusiasm for integrating AI into your work

Thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing from you!

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of colour, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.

We’re also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.

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Equal Opportunity

Klick embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We’re committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or family status. If you require disability-related accommodation during the application or interview process, simply let us know and we’ll work with you to ensure you have a positive experience.