Vice President Director, Project Management

Digitas Health is the modern creative agency that takes on the biggest moments in healthcare raises the standard of creative and connects people partners and ideas to create work that earns its place in culture. Purpose-built for todays complex and evolving landscape we partner with some of the worlds largest healthcare brands to do big things by moving faster connecting deeper and unlocking new possibilities at the intersection of creativity data technology and empathy. Guided by our purpose Connected for Good and fueled by a vibrant magnetic culturewe deliver meaningful work that drives relevance changes behavior and creates lasting impact always grounded in humanity not just technology. As part of Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe we bring together entrepreneurial energy with the scale stability and depth of one of the worlds leading communications networks.

At Digitas Health what sets us apart isnt just who we work with its how we work and how it feels to be here. Our culture attracts curious driven people who want to make a difference and be part of something bigger. Our teams are intentionally crafted across disciplines perspectives and experience levels bringing strategy creativity data and technology together from the start. We believe the best ideas come from curiosity collaboration and healthy debate and we expect people here to be thoughtful engaged and eager to shape whats next. If youre energized by complexity motivated by impact and excited to help redefine how healthcare connects with people wed love to meet you!

Directors of Project Management are senior delivery leaders who remain actively engaged in the work while expanding their impact through the PMs teams and standards they lead.

Directors help drive successful delivery across accounts and teams by staying close to client needs project realities team dynamics and business pressures. They step into complex delivery challenges strengthen operating discipline and help teams make decisions that protect quality timing financial performance and client trust.

As player-coaches Directors build Project Management capability through active delivery leadership coaching and clear expectations. They establish delivery standards develop PMs who can make sound decisions and manage trade-offs and create consistency across teams and accounts while protecting the integrity of plans budgets and client commitments.

Directors increase their impact not by stepping away from the work but by helping more people deliver it successfully. They develop strong PMs improve how work gets done and drive adoption of tools technologies and ways of working that strengthen delivery outcomes and business performance.

Strategy

• Establish clear delivery expectations and guardrails that help teams plan scope staff and execute work consistently.
• Identify recurring delivery issues and gaps across teams and accounts addressing root causes rather than repeatedly managing symptoms.
• Guide PMs through complex trade-offs reinforcing sound decision-making around scope resources budgets timing and stakeholder impact.
• Translate account-level delivery needs into practical standards planning expectations and ways of working that support stronger execution.
• Evaluate and shape new tools technologies AI-enabled solutions and delivery approaches that improve how teams plan decide and deliver.
• Protect the integrity of account-level plans and budgets by helping teams make practical decisions that support quality consistency and financial responsibility.

Delivery

• Stay actively engaged in delivery across teams and accounts stepping in early when risks challenges or delivery gaps require stronger leadership.
• Ensure project plans budgets resource allocations and delivery commitments are achievable actionable and aligned with client and business needs.
• Protect account health by identifying and addressing scope financial staffing and delivery risks before they impact outcomes.
• Keep teams safely within delivery guardrails applying judgment when standards need to flex to protect quality momentum or client commitments.
• Partner with PMs and cross-functional leaders to resolve complex delivery challenges remove obstacles and keep work moving forward.
• Drive adoption of tools technologies AI-enabled solutions and ways of working that strengthen visibility accountability and delivery performance.

Knowledge

• Apply multi-channel delivery operational and financial expertise to help teams make sound decisions and deliver consistently.
• Standardize practical processes templates and ways of working that improve clarity reduce friction and protect quality across teams and accounts.
• Use delivery patterns financial signals and team feedback to identify capability or process gaps and address them with the right partners.
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset to how teams operate refining practices that improve speed accuracy accountability and delivery confidence.
• Encourage thoughtful experimentation with tools technologies automation and AI-enabled solutions scaling what works to improve quality efficiency visibility and delivery outcomes.
• Scale effective ways of working across teams so strong delivery does not depend on individual heroics.

Leadership

• Lead as a player-coach staying actively engaged in delivery while developing PMs who can make sound decisions manage trade-offs and escalate appropriately.
• Set clear expectations for judgment ownership financial discipline communication and follow-through across the PM team.
• Coach PMs through delivery challenges in real time helping them strengthen decision-making rather than simply taking issues off their plate.
• Build trusted relationships with clients account leaders and cross-capability partners by bringing clarity accountability and delivery leadership to the work.
• Partner with account production finance and capability leaders to resolve complex delivery challenges and bring the right expertise to client and team decisions.
• Set the bar for delivery excellence by modeling strong judgment steady leadership and practical problem-solving when the work is under pressure.

What You Bring

• 7-9 years of agency marketing communications healthcare or related experience leading complex delivery across teams accounts and stakeholders.
• Strong delivery financial and operational acumen with the ability to balance client needs business priorities and team capacity.
• A track record of developing Project Managers who operate with strong judgment accountability and ownership.
• The ability to identify patterns address root causes and improve how work gets done across teams and accounts.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to create clarity alignment and confidence across clients teams and leadership partners.
• The ability to stay steady under pressure bring clarity to complex situations and help teams navigate challenges with confidence.
• Comfort evaluating testing and scaling new tools technologies and ways of working that improve delivery outcomes.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent professional experience.

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