**Company description** **Who we are** Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Engagement, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients. **What we believe** Health brings us together. In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity. When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together. **A passion for craft** Having expert thinking is only part of our story. To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts: science, strategy and creativity. **Overview** **What is the role?** This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Director to join an established and growing agency as the first member of the project management team to sit within the Public Relations business unit. We need someone adaptable, ambitious, pioneering, and influential, setting up new ways of working and building a consistency of approach within the discipline. Making sure we are financially aware, have the right resource in place and are hitting our deadlines. The role also helps manage workloads, mentors less experienced team members and always promotes delivery excellence. This role is not straight forward, and is a challenge, but done right it will bring a huge benefit to the team and be hugely rewarding for the right individual. To be successful as part of our newly evolving environment you have to be up for that challenge, be self-motivated, have ideas about ways of working whilst balancing agility to support the fast pace of the team. **Responsibilities** **What will you do?** + Partner with account leads on how to approach a given programme of work or project + Build relationships easily across all levels of the business + Create accurate scopes of work, resourcing plans and timelines for projects + Provide project governance oversight and support to the leadership team + Work with business leads to establish a suitable resourcing model for our growing social media team + Track the financial health of clients through burn reports and reconciliations + Support other team members with reports, tracking and administration tasks + Manage resource bookings for key projects and new business asks + Highlight risks and provide solutions + Ensure project delivery always remains on track + Change ways of working and suggest improvements + Support, mentor and lead other team members **Qualifications** **Who are you?** + Extensive experience within project management + Extensive experience working within a healthcare/pharma advertising or comms agency environment + Knowledge and understanding of public relations and a passion for the types of projects delivered would be great but not essential - a keen interest and curiosity to learn about PR is ideal! + A proven ability to get up to speed with new deliverables quickly + Experience leading large multi-faceted clients and project teams + Extensive experience of the full project lifecycle ranging from client brief through strategy, creative, design, copywriting, asset creation, production, execution and delivery + Experience partnering with client service teams on new business proposals Please note: Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week. **Additional information** **Langland** has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer; + **WORK YOUR WORLD** opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year. + **“YOU” DAYS** – flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice. + **HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7** helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching. + **FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES** We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave. + **FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP** You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing. + **GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS** This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre. _Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!_ **OUR DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT** At Publicis Groupe UK, we’re committed to creating a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive. This begins with striving to ensure our recruitment process is welcoming and allows equal access to opportunity for people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, neurodiversity, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. **An inclusive workplace (PUBLICIS HEALTH)** The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Here are some of the ways we help promote diversity at Publicis Health. **Recruitment** + Diversity & Inclusion management + Mandatory unconscious bias training + Career and school programmes to build industry access for people from mixed socio-economic backgrounds **Culture** + Support communities for women, LGBTQ+, BAME, Disabled employees and their allies + A wellbeing programme which includes free HeadSpace membership. **Future** + CSR is central to our ethos and work moving forwards We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process. Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page (https://www.publicisgroupeuk.com/careers/) which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG’s (Employee Action Groups). \#LI-BS1