Associate Project Manager
Location
India | India
Job description
Overview
Please note : We are a remote-first organization so you can work from anywhere in India. You may be required to travel to our Mumbai office based on business requirements or for company/team events.
As an Associate Project Manager at Cactus Life Sciences, your role is pivotal in managing client relationships and ensuring project success in the medical communications sector. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams to plan, execute, and monitor projects from start to finish, adhering to timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Strong communication skills are essential, and ideal candidates will have experience in client-facing roles within medical communications or pharmaceutical industries, alongside a Master's or PhD in a relevant field.
Responsibilities
- Ability to manage clients and existing accounts.
- Build strong client relationships grow accounts by spotting and fulfilling client needs.
- Interact with clients regularly through in-person meetings, phone and email.
- Responding to client queries, sending quotations, and confirmations.
- Acquiring new clients and ensuring organic growth of existing client Generating proposals and RFIs for client bidding.
- Work with clients and internal staff to plan and coordinate their projects from inception, meeting requirements and ensuring completion on time, within cost and to required quality standards.
- Assist with project planning, including resource forecasting, timelines, and budget.
- Prioritize and monitor the completion of tasks on a daily and weekly.
- Coordinate with team members daily to ensure operational efficiency.
- Work directly with internal teams to ensure client expectations are being met on time, on target, and on budget.
- Management of multiple publications/ med communication projects across multiple clients and therapeutic areas.
- Ability to coordinate and implement successful projects from start to finish.
Qualifications and Prerequisites
You should at least have
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a client facing role within a medical communications company, or in pharmaceutical industry setting
- Have a Masters/PhD in a medical or life science domain
- Be self-motivated and eager to take on challenges
- Display a strong ability to learn continuously
- Thrive in an unstructured, high growth environment
- Be able to work in teams that are diverse and remotely located
- Be able to multi-task and possess good time management skills
- Have excellent command over English language (especially email writing skills)
- Have good comprehension, negotiation, and analytical skills
- Be able to handle pressure and make correct decisions
Additional Information
CACTUS is a culture-driven company powered by its people, their passion, and their inspiration. All Cactizens live by the culture and values that define us.
We value people for their talent, personality, competency, and the ability to learn and grow. We create a work environment that allows people to thrive and show their best performance. We believe in meritocracy.
We take pride in our diversity. We strive to embrace diverse voices and create an inclusive workplace.
We encourage all Cactizens to talk openly about their ideas and opinions and provide feedback to anyone who is a part of CACTUS, regardless of designation, experience, or seniority. We also encourage them to place their trust and be open to differences in opinions and feedback.
About CACTUS
Cactus Communications is a science communication and technology company. We specialize in AI products and solutions that improve how research gets funded, published, communicated, and discovered. We offer editorial, translation, education, and training solutions for researchers strategic and tactical scientific content solutions to global life science organizations AI-powered scholarly publishing products for journals and researchers and solutions for science dissemination and engagement with peers, public, and policymakers for wider research outreach. We have offices in London, Princeton, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, and Mumbai a global workforce of over 3,000 experts and customers from over 190 countries.
Awards and Recognition
- Cactus Communications has consistently ranked among the top 20 on the global list of the Top 100 Companies for Telecommute Jobs since 2016.
- Recognised as 'Employers of the Future' two years in a row in 2023 and 2022, in a study by LeadUp Universe, Fortune India and Work Universe
- Recognised as One of India's Top 100 best Workplaces for Women by Great Place To Work® in 2022
- Winner of 'Best Innovation Leveraging AI Services' at AWS AI Conclave 2022
- Recognized as one of the Best Companies for Millennials 2019 by Times Ascent and Learning & Organisation Development Roundtable
- Emerged as one of India's Top 10 Safe Workplaces for Women in a survey conducted by Rainmaker in 2019
- Ranked #1 among India's Great Mid-Size Workplaces by Great Place to Work® Institute in 2017
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