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Digital Project Manager

Mettawa, IL 60045

Posted: 04/03/2025 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Account & Project Management Job Number: 631873 Is job remote?: No

Job Description

Planet Interactive is seeking a Digital Project Manager to join an in-house agency for a well-known pharmaceutical company. This role requires an experienced digital project manager preferably with Pharma or similar industry experience to work in a fast-paced agency like environment delivering multiple small-to large scale digital tactics including websites, email, banners, apps and more.
  • Pay: $35-$40/hr depending on experience 
  • Location: Hybrid Mettawa, IL
Digital Project Manager Responsibilities:
  • Have a complete view of all active web projects for the therapeutic area assigned and take an active role in moving projects forward by partnering with the web specialists’ team.
  • Collaborate within a cross functional team throughout the workday, performing proactive identification of potential challenges and supporting the web team to ensure on-time project delivery.
  • Identify, troubleshoot, and document issues and recommend process-based solutions.
  • Understand AEM Authoring environment and the client's publishing process in order to help assess best delivery strategy.
  • Be able to support the web specialist team members with Veeva submission tasks for projects and track project status while projects are in Veeva.
  • Lead status calls and facilitate in efficient manner that benefits the web channels team: bring awareness to potential risks and connect the dots btwn projects within the therapeutic area assigned that the specialists should know about.
  • Help with estimation process for a category of project type by supporting the web specialist team with potential consultation from appropriate tech teams.
Digital Project Manager Qualifications: 
  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
  • A solid understanding of technical development responsive websites, emails, banners and iPad application development.
  • 3+ years of experience contributing to enterprise website that include migration and online production (using AEM and/or other web content management system).
  • Strong understanding of Web Development.
  • Competency with web UX conventions and standards, including accessibility and SEO.
  • General knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
  • MS Office Suites background (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
  • Experience with project tracking through Jira / Confluence, Smartsheet, Trello, Workfront.
  • Proficiency in Google Drive Sheets, Docs and Slides.
  • Exposure to Agile development process preferred.
  • Experience in pharmaceuticals or another highly regulated industry preferred.
  • Experience with Veeva is plus.
  • Experience with Workfront is a plus.
Digital Project Manager Competencies:
  • Self-motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent organizational/time management, planning/prioritization skills and troubleshooting skills.
  • Requires strong collaboration and people skills to be effective managing through a highly matrixed organization.
  • Effective negotiation and conflict management skills.
  • Extreme attention to detail and follow-through on execution.
  • Comfortable juggling multiple, concurrent with tight deadlines.
  • Excellent judgment and the ability to handle escalated situations.
  • Proven ability to build relationships and work independently.
  • Professional manner and approach in working within a team.
  • Acumen for how digital agencies operate: scope of work process/mgmt., timelines.
  • Inquisitive, strong analytical skills, including the ability to infer and apply learnings.
  • Outstanding communicator and comfortable interacting with a diverse group of technical and non-technical people.
Key Leadership Competencies:
  • Positive “all for one” approach to team deliverables and priorities.
  • Builds strong relationships to enable higher performance.
  • Learns, fast, grasps the “essence” and can change course quickly where indicated.
  • Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
  • Creates a learning environment and open to suggestions.
  • Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.
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