Full-Time
Associate Director
Project Management
Updated on 9/4/2026
Inizio Evoke
Healthcare marketing and communications
Compensation Overview
$120k - $135k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA + 3 more
More locations: Los Angeles, CA, USA | Tempe, AZ, USA | San Diego, CA, USA
Remote
Bachelor's
 Project & Program Management (1) |
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- A bachelor's degree is required.
- At least 6 years of project management experience is required.
- At least 1–2 years of healthcare or pharmaceutical advertising experience is required.
- Strong budgeting and portfolio management skills are required, including understanding launch-to-mature brand needs.
- Experience with websites, email programs, speaker programs, social media, digital initiatives, and cross-departmental strategy oversight is required.
- The ability to manage up, guide senior-level strategy partners, and align cross-functional teams is required.
- Comfort with operational platforms such as Excel, Power BI, Smartsheet, Basecamp, and Workfront/Ziflow is required.
- Lead complex, cross-agency initiatives across launch and mature brands.
- Own brand-level planning, including long-range timelines, integrated Gantts, and multichannel workstreams.
- Guide PM team priorities and ensure clarity, delegation, and alignment across projects.
- Serve as a trusted client partner for scopes, budgets, timelines, and operational planning.
- Oversee workflows and recommend process improvements.
- Educate clients on agency processes, risk mitigation, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Lead internal hot sheet, status, and kickoff meetings.
- Lead annual scopes and change orders, including creation of ballpark and final estimates with cross-functional alignment.
- Manage brand financials, including estimates, forecasting, burn tracking, and reconciliation.
- Anticipate and mitigate risk through proactive planning and scenario modeling.
- Prepare executive financial and risk summaries.
- Partner with department heads to assess needs, resolve challenges, and optimize workflows.
- Monitor resourcing across brands and escalate gaps as needed.
- Drive operational efficiency by refining processes internally and externally.
- Mentor and grow project management talent across project manager and senior project manager levels.
- Serve as an escalation partner for project management and cross-functional teams.
- Balance workloads and monitor utilization.
- Lead onboarding and training while contributing to department learning initiatives.
- Assess team capabilities and provide targeted coaching.
- Report key communications to the Director.
- Champion agency culture and project management office initiatives.
- Support new business through operational insights and planning.
- Integrate emerging technologies into workflows, including early artificial intelligence-enabled tools.
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence-assisted workflows is preferred.
Inizio Evoke is a healthcare marketing, communications and transformation agency serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other health-focused organizations. Its teams work across brand strategy, creative, media, public relations, experience design and commercialization challenges. The company brings specialized knowledge of healthcare audiences and regulated markets to campaigns and customer experiences. As part of Inizio, Evoke combines agency capabilities across disciplines and regions rather than operating as a pharmaceutical manufacturer or clinical care provider. Service delivery depends on clinical, operational and administrative teams working across its care settings.
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