Project and Resourcing Manager

About Throughline Strategy

As a leading healthcare consultancy firmThroughline Strategys sole mission is to help Life Sciences organizations improve experiences and outcomes for people living with illness and those who care for them. Our global clients come to us for our strategic counsel behavioural and system insights and implementation science focus and because we have a roll-up-the-sleeves determination to deliver great work that matters.

About the Roles
Throughline Strategy is seeking two experienced advertising or consulting agency project and resource managers who can seamlessly blend project management expertise with strong business acumen and exceptional interpersonal skills to deliver successful outcomes for our clients and our team. We are looking fora senior and a junior resourcing and project manager.In either role you will be staffed onto high-impact insights strategy and medical education projects with a cross-functional and highly collaborative team and contribute in the following ways:

• Project Leadership:Develop comprehensive project plans manage timelines and budgets and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver client engagements on time and within scope. Lead project kickoffs establish governance structures and manage scope changes through formal change control processes.
• Client Management:Serve as primary client contact conducting regular status meetings and providing progress updates. Manage stakeholder expectations facilitate communication between consulting teams and client organizations and ensure deliverables meet quality standards and business requirements.
  
• Resourcing Management: Monitor and assess team capacity and coordinate and assign resources across multiple concurrent projects. Monitor and update project timelines and balance team workloads. Manage consultant schedules and ensure proper workload distribution while maintaining target utilization rates. Prepare and present resourcing reports needs and solutions to senior leadership team
• Team Coordination:Assign tasks monitor team performance and provide coaching to consulting staff.
  
• Financial Oversight:Track project profitability manage expenses and monitor budget variances. Prepare financial reports analyze utilization metrics and identify opportunities for additional work or contract expansions.
  
• Delivery & Quality Assurance: Ensure all deliverables meet internal quality standards and client expectations. Coordinate client feedback incorporation manage formal delivery processes and facilitate knowledge transfer to client teams for sustainable implementation.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve project processes for consistency across the organization
• (Senior Role) Oversee all Resourcing and Project Management functions: Responsibility for managing the big picture of all resourcing and project management and managing Junior Project and Resourcing Manager.
• Help improve workplace culture and space.
• Other duties as required.

Intrigued and curious if you have what it takes

At Throughline we firmly believe that culture is as important as the work we do. We hire for values alignment first and foremost. Our values are centred around what it takes to be a great partner:

1. Move It Forward:Even when faced with ambiguous never-seen-before challenges our people:

• Make %$ happen in order to make meaningful change and solve challenging strategic problems. Our team take on every project and task like its their baby.
• Bring strong attention to detail and also have the ability to balance a detail orientation with a big picture perspective.
• Thrive working in an agency setting and relish the pace of consulting work and ability to deliver results quickly
• Love helping our client organizations pull-through our projects into concrete action.
  

2. Know Yourself : Our team is skilled at assessing what we do well. This increases vulnerability and removes uncertainty in how we operate creating a more dynamic and sustainable culture of trust innovation and teamwork. Towards this our team:

• All bring a shared passion for improving health outcomes and experiences
• Share an insatiable curiosity. We like to know how people and things work and dig in to find out.
• Are very open to receiving feedback to enhance each of our individual and shared performance.
  
• Are highly effective working in a self-directed manner.
  

3. Kindness and Candor: We share the truth with one another in a way that leaves everyone whole and allows people to quickly act on feedback in delivering their personal best work. As part of this we all:

• Speak well listen even better. We take the time to understand what people really care about and what motivates them.
• Love collaborating and helping. We are a team culture and roll up our sleeves to get the job done together.

Wed love for you to apply to join us if you have:

• 2 years or more experience working in a project management or resourcing role at an agency or consultancy where external clients were served
• Strong critical thinking problem solving and business communication (written and spoken) skills
• Demonstrated experience:
  • successfully managing multiple projects with rapidly morphing timelines and requirements at the same time
  • leading teams through ambiguity
  • effectively anticipating and mitigating project risks
  • leading client communications on day to day engagements
    
• Passion for working in a health-related field
• Fluent written and spoken English. Second and third language skills are a plus!
• Experience in using Netsuite/SPP/OpenAir Smartsheet all G-Suite andMS-Office products and working in a cloud-based virtual environment with PowerPoint and digital collaboration tools (e.g. Zoom Teams Mural Slack Box etc.).
• Experience in integrating AI tools into your workflow

Applicants must be legally able to work in Canada and able to travel to the United States and Europe if required.Both available roles are full-time role with potential for travel to client sites. Throughline operates with a hybrid environment work model so employees will work onsite at Yonge and St. Clair for up to three days a week and remotely for the remainder of the time.Please note these roles are not available as fully remote roles.

To apply:

Please submit:

• a one page resume
• a cover letter highlighting your resourcing and project management experience and why you are eager to grow in your expertise as part of our team
  

Inclusion:

We acknowledge and honour the value and dignity of all individuals. We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining a culture that welcomes and respects diverse traditions heritages and experiences.

Accommodations and Accessibility:

At any time during the interview and onboarding process let us know if you require accommodation. Please contact us at and we will work with you to provide the support you need.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for next steps will be contacted.

Required Experience:

Manager