Director, Project Management
Sustainable Princeton
full-time
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Location: New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Establish, lead, and grow Princeton10’s project management function to enable clarity, efficiency, and accountability.
- Design systems and processes for consistent, high-quality project delivery.
- Partner closely with finance, client service, creative, strategy, tech, analytics, and leadership.
- Mentor and develop a high-performing team of project managers; provide coaching and guidance.
- Scope projects accurately, resource appropriately, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.
- Track project health, utilization, and profitability in partnership with finance and leadership.
- Lead resource management, capacity planning, and workforce forecasting with HR and department leads.
- Serve as a thought partner to senior leaders to improve workflows, forecasting, and cross-team collaboration.
- Act as trusted advisor to account and creative leaders to align client priorities and internal resources.
- Support financial forecasting models and contribute to agency-level decision-making.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in scaling and overseeing project management within an advertising, marketing, or related professional services environment.
- 5+ years in pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing managing projects, including product launches.
- 3+ years leading a team of project management professionals
- Proven experience leading and developing a project management function, ideally as the first or early hire in a scaling organization.
- Strong understanding of agency operations including scoping, budgeting, resourcing, and reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and inspire a team.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills across creative and business functions.
- Comfort balancing strategic leadership with hands-on project oversight.
- Familiarity with project management and resourcing tools (e.g., Wrike, Asana, Workfront, Float, or similar).
- Excel at Excel.