Project Director - Clinical Trial Communications

  • Full-time

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.

An inclusive workplace

The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Please see additional information for some of the ways we help promote diversity at Langland.

Job Description

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Project Director to join an established agency at that start of its journey in building a project management team.

By joining our newly created team you’ll have a chance to make a difference – influencing how we deliver, shaping our approach to project management and becoming an integral part of building an efficient, flexible and fun team. You’ll get to work on a wide variety of projects within some of the agencies most valued clients.

Within the CTE discipline we focus on supporting the recruitment and retention of potential participants onto clinical trials. We take a communications-led approach focused on creating an insight-based identity and look & feel for the study, coupled with accessible content for patients, caregivers and HCPs. The materials we create are spread across print and digital channels. Based on the global nature of the work our materials are also translated and distributed around the world. 

This is the start of the journey in building the project management function so to be successful as part of our newly evolving environment you will need to be self-motivated, have ideas about ways of working, be able to build trust quickly and effectively with all team members/departments and be happy as the go to person when we need a solution.

*This role also offers some flexibility to work remotely

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience within project management and agencies; healthcare advertising is a huge bonus although not essential
  • You must have an interest in working within healthcare - we’ll expect to see genuine enthusiasm for what we do here
  • You have the ability to manage complex, cross function, multi-channel projects influencing quality, budgets and timings
  • You will have experience of leading large multi-faceted clients and project teams
  • You should have strong commercial acumen and ability to manage, understand and report on financial health of projects
  • You have the ability to understand resource management, forecasting and capacity planning
  • You will have experience of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery
  • You must have experience of being the lead PM within a team and be able to show effective people leadership and a desire to develop more inexperienced PM’s
  • You will have experience of creating production and project strategies for brands or clients
  • You’ll be willing to offer operational guidance and solutions for the entire agency and have the ability to positively influence all stakeholders to your point of view

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 Langland. 


Recruitment 

  • Diversity & Inclusion management 
  • Anonymised CV submissions
  • Mandatory unconscious bias training 
  • Career and school programmes  to build access to industry 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.
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