SVP, Project Management
6 days ago
Saddle Brook
Job Description Why Join the HWP Group? Health & Wellness Partners, LLC (HWP), is a medical and scientific communications agency that collaborates with life science industry stakeholders to develop award-winning solutions that advance patient care and transforms scientific content into compelling live and virtual user experiences through digital platforms, congress engagement, and more. We bring clients, providers, and patients outstanding educational programming paired with innovative digital and interactive dissemination vehicles. We are committed to making a difference in health care and in the lives of our team members. We aim to provide every employee with a job they love in a culture focused on career growth, well-being, and community outreach. We have been recognized as both an MM&M Best Place to Work and an Inc. Best Workplace. For more information, visit thehwpgroup.com. What You Need to Know We’re looking to add an SVP, Project Management to our Operations team. The SVP, Project Management will be a key executive responsible for leading the business through financial stewardship, operational excellence, and delivery performance. As a core member of the cross-functional leadership team, the SVP will drive enterprise delivery standards, ensuring that teams consistently meet client, operational, and financial expectations. This role provides strategic vision, fosters organizational collaboration, and ensures high-quality, scalable delivery across a matrixed professional services environment. What You’ll Do The SVP, Project Management will be accountable to the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Team and responsible for the performance, health, and evolution of the delivery/project management functions, including profitability, operational standards, client delivery excellence, and the development of high-performing delivery teams. Additionally, this role will: • Lead operational management, ensuring revenue targets, margin expectations, and utilization goals are achieved, • Partner with cross-functional executives to drive business-wide financial performance, project forecasting accuracy, and cost optimization, • Provide clarity on project budgets, investment vs project cost allocation, and profitability drivers, • Monitor client needs, account health, and delivery performance, providing strategic direction during escalations and challenging situations, • Build and maintain strong internal and external relationships to influence outcomes, strengthen collaboration and ensure aligned delivery, • Serve as a senior advisor on delivery strategy, budgeting approaches, and risk mitigation., • Drive the evolution of the PM/Delivery discipline at the leadership level, ensuring the organization adapts to market, client and operational demands, • Establish and refine enterprise delivery frameworks, governance models and operational standards across the organization, • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to design and support enterprise-wide solutions and scalable delivery processes, • Identify operational silos and systemic inefficiencies; drive actions that improve team efficiency, cross-functional coordination, and end-to-end delivery flow, • Ensure delivery metrics are consistently met, including project quality, on-time delivery, budget adherence and client satisfaction, • 12+ years of project management or delivery experience in a professional services, agency, or project-based environment, • Experience leading a delivery department with significant financial accountability, • Proficient with project management tools and technologies, such as Adobe Workfront, • Strategic leadership and vision to guide long-term direction and organizational success, • Client-centric problem-solving abilities with a focus on delivering high-value solutions, • Advanced business and financial acumen to evaluate opportunities and drive profitable outcomes, • Exceptional negotiation skills to influence, align, and secure optimal agreements, • Strong cross-functional collaboration capabilities to work effectively with diverse teams, • Organizational influence and change leadership to champion initiatives and drive transformation, • Immediate eligibility for all benefits, including medical, dental, vision, group term life, short-term and long-term disability, • Benefits 100% company paid, • 401k plan employer matching contributions, • Eligibility for company sponsored incentive plans, • Generous PTO, including a week off in December for the holidays, • Paid volunteer time off, • Tuition reimbursement, • On-site gym and other employee wellness initiatives, • Employee Assistance Program, • Comp pay or comp time for onsite weekend work, • Availability of cell-phone stipends, based on business need, • Leadership development training program and other career development programs, • Remote and hybrid work schedule options, • Salary range: $190,000 – $235,000 annually. Note: Actual salary will depend on background and experience. M/F/D/V Please note, we will only respond to candidates we deem qualified