Orchard - Senior Project Manager / Hybrid Account Director - Health (6 Month Contract)

As Senior Project Manager (Health), you will run complex health/pharma projects and multi-brand portfolios end-to-end. You'll coordinate creative, medical writing, strategy, and tech; lead regulatory workflows; and mentor PMs. You will be joining a high-profile account, with an innovative brand in the health space. You will need to be confident working at pace, balancing priorities, and maintaining a high standard.

Responsibilities

Own schedules, budgets, risks, and quality across complex digital and omnichannel projects (sites, iVAs/eDetailers, Approved Emails, campaigns, content programs); Translate briefs into scoped plans with milestones, dependencies, and review gates; run stand-ups, WIPs, and stakeholder forums; Mentor PMs on estimation, Jira hygiene, acceptance criteria, and handover excellence; Lead MLR and regulatory workflows (Medicines Australia Code, TGA) with impeccable documentation; Route and track materials through Veeva PromoMats/Vault (and client equivalents), coordinating medical/legal reviews and ensuring audit readiness; Anticipate compliance risks and build realistic delivery plans around gating and approval cycles; Manage budgets, burn, and change control; keep Workbook clean and timesheets accurate; Flag variances early with options; contribute to estimates for new briefs and scope changes; Maintain clear Jira boards and ticket quality; ensure Pageproof and Confluence documentation is current and usable; Use AI tools to accelerate documentation, risk scans, QA checklists, and status reporting

Requirements

5–7+ years in digital/creative/health communications; strong record in regulated delivery; Confidence with Veeva, MLR cycles, claims/referencing with medical writers; End-to-end delivery experience across omnichannel campaigns, content programs, and digital assets; Strong organisational capability; able to manage multiple concurrent projects without losing detail or quality; Clear, concise written and verbal communication; confident running meetings and presenting status; Comfort with budgets, timesheets, and financial reporting; understands the link between delivery decisions and margin; Calm, proactive communicator; highly organised; commercially literate

Benefits

Awesome, fun working environment full of culture and energy; Healthy work / life balance; Free crumpets; Structured internal and external training and education courses; Ongoing individual wellbeing support through Employee Assistance Program