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# Associate Director, Project Management at Inizio Evoke

- **Company:** Inizio Evoke
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $120k–$135k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://www.inizioevoke.com/vacancy/inizioevoke/8256916?gh_jid=8256916

## Job description

Associate Director, Project Management

In the journey of life, your career should make a difference.

At Inizio Evoke, we come together—to do the best work, in the best possible place. We're all in. Because it's everyone's role to make health more human™.

## About the Role

Project Management is at the heart of how we deliver exceptional work at Inizio Evoke. Our Project Management team drives operational excellence, connects cross-functional teams, and ensures our work is delivered with the highest levels of quality, efficiency, and accountability.

The Associate Director, Project Management is a strategic operational leader responsible for overseeing complex projects, managing a portfolio of business, and driving successful execution across multidisciplinary teams. Serving as a key partner to Account Leadership and internal department leads, this individual provides direction and oversight across project scope, process, timelines, budgets, and resources.

Beyond project delivery, the Associate Director plays an integral role in strengthening operational processes, identifying opportunities for efficiency, developing talent, and ensuring alignment between agency capabilities and client business objectives.

This is a remote position reporting to the Director, Project Management.

## What You'll Do

Project & Operational Leadership

- Provide strategic oversight and leadership across a portfolio of complex projects and client accounts, ensuring successful execution from initiation through completion.
- Serve as a senior operational partner to Account Leadership, providing guidance on project strategy, scope, timelines, budgets, resources, and delivery expectations.
- Lead complex, high-priority initiatives that require coordination across multiple functional teams, agency partners, and external vendors.
- Establish project management standards, workflows, and best practices to ensure consistency, quality, and operational efficiency.
- Anticipate project challenges, proactively identify risks, and develop solutions to mitigate potential impacts to scope, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
- Ensure projects follow established business processes, while exercising sound judgment to adapt workflows when business needs require flexibility.
- Oversee quality control throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring deliverables meet agency standards and client expectations.
- Provide oversight of medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) submission preparation and processes, ensuring compliance with client-specific requirements.
- Maintain visibility into project health and provide clear, proactive communication and reporting to internal leadership and clients.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance project execution, team collaboration, and overall agency operations.

Financial & Resource Management

- Provide financial oversight across assigned accounts and projects, ensuring work is appropriately scoped, staffed, and delivered within established budgets.
- Develop and oversee project staffing plans, resource forecasts, and budget projections in partnership with Account Leadership, Finance, and Resource Management.
- Monitor project and campaign financials, identifying budget risks, scope changes, and opportunities to improve profitability.
- Lead monthly financial reconciliation and forecasting discussions, ensuring alignment between project progress, resource utilization, and financial performance.
- Partner with Finance to develop and present accurate budget reporting and financial updates to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Oversee resource planning and allocation, partnering with Resource Management and department leads to prioritize competing business needs.
- Evaluate resource needs across the portfolio and proactively identify staffing gaps, capacity constraints, and opportunities for operational efficiencies.
- Manage external agency and vendor relationships, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.

Client & Cross-Functional Partnership

- Build strong relationships with Account Leadership, Creative, Strategy, Medical, Technology, Operations, Finance, and other internal partners.
- Serve as a trusted operational advisor, providing recommendations and solutions that support client objectives and agency goals.
- Communicate project status, risks, financial performance, and key milestones with transparency and confidence.
- Partner with Account Leadership to establish realistic expectations around scope, timing, resources, and deliverables.
- Lead internal and external project discussions, ensuring teams remain aligned, accountable, and focused on successful delivery.
- Present project management capabilities, processes, and operational recommendations to internal stakeholders and clients as needed.
- Foster a collaborative environment that promotes accountability, proactive communication, and strong cross-functional partnerships.

## Team Leadership & Development

- Provide day-to-day leadership, mentorship, and development to Project Management team members, including Senior Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers, as applicable.
- Manage, coach, and develop direct reports through regular one-on-ones, performance feedback, and ongoing professional development.
- Support the growth of Project Management talent by sharing best practices, providing guidance, and identifying opportunities for increased responsibility and ownership.
- Help establish clear expectations, accountability, and consistent execution standards across the Project Management team.
- Identify opportunities to improve team structure, workflows, and processes to support evolving business needs.
- Foster a positive, collaborative team culture that encourages problem-solving, ownership, and continuous learning.

## What You'll Need

- 7+ years of project management experience, preferably within a pharmaceutical advertising, healthcare communications, or life sciences agency.
- Pharmaceutical marketing agency experience required; Agency of Record (AOR) experience strongly preferred.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects and managing large portfolios of business.
- Proven ability to provide operational leadership and strategic guidance to Account Leadership and multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience overseeing project financials, including budget development, forecasting, reconciliation, resource planning, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated success managing multiple vendors and agency partners, including oversight of timelines, budgets, deliverables, and execution.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing project management professionals.
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical marketing workflows, including medical, legal, and regulatory review processes.
- Advanced proficiency with project management and financial management platforms.
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or comparable project management tools.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead process improvement initiatives and implement operational efficiencies.
- Exceptional organizational, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability to navigate competing priorities, influence stakeholders, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced agency environment.

What Sets You Apart

- You are a strategic thinker who can balance big-picture business objectives with the operational details required to execute successfully.
- You take ownership, anticipate challenges, and bring forward solutions rather than simply identifying problems.
- You are comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and driving accountability across teams.
- You understand the relationship between operational excellence, client satisfaction, financial performance, and agency growth.
- You are passionate about developing people, building strong teams, and creating an environment where great work can happen.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that’s why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

## Compensation

$120,000—$135,000 USD

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.

## About Inizio Evoke

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inizio Evoke is a global health marketing, communications, and transformation platform that helps life sciences organizations unlock growth through data-driven insight and human centricity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Inizio)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (the agency was built through multiple acquisitions under the Evoke group)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Healthcare marketing, pharmaceutical advertising, health communications, life sciences commercialization
- Target customers: B2B, primarily large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies (Enterprise/Big Pharma)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Make health more human™" — using technology, data, and "applied empathy" to better understand behavior and deliver messaging in a more human way

## Products & Services
Inizio Evoke operates across five key service areas:

- **Brand & Creative**: Full-service creative development for healthcare brands, connecting data and creativity to deliver seamless experiences.
- **Comms (Communications)**: Strategic communications and public relations for health and life sciences organizations.
- **Transformation**: Consulting and organizational change to help healthcare brands navigate market complexities and build more intuitive, empathetic businesses.
- **Access**: Patient support and market access solutions, including patient services programs and reimbursement support.
- **Media**: Full-service media capabilities across all audiences, including omnichannel engagement, field force strategy, and automation.
- **Cognitev™ (Commercial Intelligence Platform)**: A proprietary platform that translates behavioral data into activation, fueling omnichannel engagement and optimizing field force strategy. Built on over 40 million hours of proprietary behavioral data from physicians and patients.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (Private subsidiary of Inizio)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$347 million** (2025 North American revenue, per MM+M Agency 100 2026 report). LinkedIn estimates $60 million, but the industry trade publication figure is more authoritative.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is **Inizio** (a market-leading commercialization partner for health and life sciences). Key clients include **Gilead Sciences** (Michelle Kelly, Director of Patient and Consumer Marketing, Oncology, is a cited client).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Revenue rose **4%** in 2025 to $347 million.
  - Headcount of **1,117** full-time employees in 2025 (per MM+M), though LinkedIn shows 891 (likely due to different counting methods or timing).
  - Active job postings: **51** (up 75.9% year-over-year).
  - Operates in 11 offices across 4 countries (US, UK, Ireland, UAE, Singapore).
  - Has acquired multiple agencies: Giant Creative Strategy ($72.2M, 2018), Navience Healthcare Solutions ($24M, 2018), AboveNationMedia ($1.8M, 2018), KYNE ($19.4M, 2019), Diffusion Group (2022).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data Moat**: Cognitev™ platform is built on 40+ million hours of proprietary behavioral data from physicians and patients — a unique asset that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Digital-First DNA**: Founded during the digital revolution of the early 2000s, the agency was structurally digital from the beginning, avoiding the "bolt-on" digital capabilities that plagued legacy networks.
- **AI Integration**: Aggressively embracing AI not as a standalone capability but as a structural transformation of how work is made and managed, reducing administrative friction for creative teams.
- **Full-Service Platform**: Offers end-to-end services from brand strategy to media buying to patient access, making it a comprehensive partner for pharma clients.
- **Parent Backing**: As part of Inizio, has access to a broader ecosystem of life sciences commercialization services.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Transformation**: CEO Reid Connolly is betting heavily on AI to give clients a competitive advantage, focusing on process simplification rather than flashy announcements. The goal is preparing for an "agentic future" where AI systems support work creation and management.
- **Data-Driven Personalization**: Using Cognitev™ to personalize strategy and messaging in real-time based on behavioral signals.
- **Omnichannel Excellence**: Unifying content, channels, and journeys to optimize engagement across all touchpoints.
- **Growth Through Acquisition**: History of strategic acquisitions to expand capabilities (creative, media, patient access).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Employee rating of **3.9/5.0** on LinkedIn, with Work-Life Balance scoring highest at **4.3/5.0**.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Not explicitly stated, but the agency has 11 offices globally (including major US hubs: New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, San Diego, Cary, Tempe).
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**:
  - Focus on "applied empathy" and making work "the best possible place."
  - Strong emphasis on reducing administrative burden for creative teams through AI, allowing more focus on high-concept strategy.
  - Rapidly growing: job postings up 75.9% year-over-year.
  - Tech stack includes modern tools: React, Power BI, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Google Sheets, martech platforms.
- **Talent Flows**: Major talent sources include Digitas Health, FCB Health, AbelsonTaylor, Klick, and CDM — indicating a competitive, agency-experienced workforce.
- **Career Development**: Open roles span from Associate Director to Senior Director levels, with opportunities in strategy, analytics, creative, project management, and media.

## Sources
1. [inizioevoke.com](https://www.inizioevoke.com/)
2. [inizioevoke.com/careers](https://www.inizioevoke.com/careers)
3. [inizio.com](https://inizio.com/our-businesses/evoke/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/inizioevoke](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inizioevoke)
5. [mmm-online.com (Agency 100 2026)](https://www.mmm-online.com/companydetail/inizio-evoke-agency-100-2026/)

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