About the Role
VML Health is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to manage internal stakeholders across multiple departments to deliver on client needs and objectives. The role involves facilitating communication between client stakeholders and agency teams throughout project lifecycles.
Responsibilities
- Manage medium and complex projects.
- Facilitate understanding of clients' environments to set up project teams, identify documentation, and establish status reporting.
- Articulate project objectives to team members.
- Manage project scope and write change orders.
- Identify resourcing needs and secure team members with Resource Management.
- Deliver marketing tactics that exceed expectations.
- Act as an internal liaison to reinforce client/project priorities, clarify requirements, and solve cross-discipline gaps.
- Schedule and run meetings with internal team members.
- Provide external status reporting to clients.
- Catalog and maintain all project documentation and deliverables.
- Define and explain project processes/workflows, including client-specific processes for legal/medical/regulatory reviews.
- Coordinate and/or author points of view as required.
- Support the team in scoping new engagements.
Requirements
- 4+ years of agency and/or client-side experience managing large-scale marketing projects.
- Health client experience preferred.
- Excellent communication skills; creates clarity where there is ambiguity/confusion.
- Strong organization skills.
- Attention to detail, willingness to ask questions and ability to follow up.
- Embraces change.
- Passion for learning.
- Proactive, adaptable, and flexible.
- Ability to follow direction.
- Understanding of waterfall and agile methodologies.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Proven experience in project management within a marketing agency, with a focus on healthcare clients.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and teams effectively.
- Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
Skills
- Project Management
- Communication
- Organization
- Attention to detail
- Waterfall methodologies
- Agile methodologies
- Problem-solving
- Decision-making
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000—$140,000 USD
Benefits
- Group health coverage options (medical, dental, vision)
- Generous 401k match (100% dollar-for-dollar match, up to 5% of salary contribution)
- Variety of paid time off offerings
About the Company
- VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth.
- VML is celebrated for its innovative and award-winning human-first work for clients including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's.
- In 2026, VML was named Campaign’s Global Network of the Year and ranked #2 Creative Network of the Year at Cannes Lions.
- VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore.
- VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
- Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.
- VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between.
- It operates fluidly within the VML agency, as a core group of health specialists (a ‘vertical’) that has the benefit of autonomy in management, but with support of non-health expertise.
- At the heart of health is the story of life – all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities. But facing a health challenge can suddenly pull people away from these stories, knocking them off course.
- Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning.
- We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals’ and patients’ needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call ‘radical empathy’.
- VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live. Get to the heart. Connect for life.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
