Project Manager
About Innovation Partners
Innovation Partners is a boutique biomedical consulting firm that partners with biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device companies to successfully bring innovative therapies to market in oncology, hematology, and rare disease spaces. As a growing organization built around Agile principles and strong core values, we invest heavily in collaboration, continuous learning, and professional growth.
Our clients rely on us because we combine strategic thinking with exceptional execution as we support them in medical affairs, market access, payer strategy, health economics and outcomes research (HEOR), healthcare market research, evidence generation, medical education, and commercialization initiatives. We thrive in environments where priorities shift, timelines are compressed, and clients need trusted partners who can bring clarity to complexity.
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Project Manager who has previously managed complex client-facing projects within medical affairs, medical access/market access, payer strategy, and/or related healthcare consulting environments.
Successful Project Managers at Innovation Partners are trusted client partners who own project execution from initiation through closeout while coordinating with cross-functional team members, managing budgets and timelines, anticipating risks before they become problems, and building trust with the clients that every detail and deliverable is accounted for.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable leading client meetings and maintaining a strong communication channel about the project with internal and external stakeholders, reviewing a statement of work to determine project feasibility, and navigating ambiguity when it occurs without losing momentum.
Project Managers at Innovation Partners work closely with strategists and subject matter experts to ensure the right conversations happen, the right people are engaged, and projects move forward efficiently, accurately, and on schedule.
If you enjoy building trusted client partnerships, aren't afraid to ask questions and take accountability, and bring structure to fast-moving projects, we'd love to meet you.
What Success Looks Like at Innovation Partners as a Project Manager
While at Innovation Partners as a Project Manager, you will:
- Independently manage approximately 5–6 concurrent client projects and develop trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Lead client meetings confidently while simultaneously facilitating discussion and capturing and communicating key decisions and action items.
- Be bold and ask questions and be inquisitive about both the projects you manage and the surrounding work needing to support it.
- Proactively identify project risks and bring forward thoughtful solutions before issues affect timelines or budgets.
- Maintain accurate project budgets with no unexpected financial surprises.
- Deliver projects with exceptional organization, communication, and attention to detail.
- Operate independently but know when to engage senior colleagues for strategic or scope-related decisions.
Primary Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Execution (75%)
Lead multiple client projects from project initiation through closeout while ensuring exceptional execution across timelines, budgets, quality, and communication.
Responsibilities include:
- Review Statements of Work (SOWs), budgets, and proposals to ensure plans outlined are realistic and employ appropriate operations framework strategies.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, tracking tools, milestone schedules, and documentation.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects across different clients while balancing changing priorities.
- Monitor project progress, identify risks early, and proactively drive solutions.
- Coordinate cross-functional internal teams, consultants, vendors, and client stakeholders to ensure deliverables remain on schedule.
- Track project budgets at a high level, including budget utilization, invoicing progress, and remaining contract value.
- Recognize scope changes and escalate appropriately while maintaining positive client relationships.
- Prepare agendas, facilitate recurring client meetings, document decisions, and communicate clear next steps both internally and to the client.
- Create and edit executive summaries, meeting reports and minutes, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets, and client communications.
- Support secondary research and project execution activities as needed.
- Manage projects involving:
- NCCN submissions
- Clinical compendia submissions
- Pre- and post-approval dossiers
- Medical affairs deliverables
- Market access initiatives
- Healthcare market research
- Travel approximately 2–4 times annually within the United States, including occasional evenings or weekends.
Client Leadership (15%)
Develop trusted relationships while serving as the operational lead for assigned projects.
Responsibilities include:
- Serve as the primary day-to-day project contact for assigned clients.
- Lead project meetings with confidence, professionalism, and executive presence.
- Translate ambiguous client requests into actions within the scope of the SOW
- Anticipate client needs and identify potential risks and blockers before they become issues.
- Build credibility through responsiveness, organization, and consistent execution.
- Coordinate closely with internal strategists to ensure clients receive the right expertise at the right time.
- Escalate scope and timeline shifts, or strategic decisions appropriately while maintaining client confidence.
Operational Excellence & Team Contribution (10%)
As a growing consulting firm, Innovation Partners values individuals who actively improve how we work.
Responsibilities include:
- Contribute to continuous improvement of project management processes, templates, and workflows.
- Participate in project management team meetings and knowledge sharing.
- Support organizational initiatives that improve efficiency and scalability.
- Collaborate across Business Development, Finance, and Operations to strengthen project delivery.
Experience
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- 3–5+ years of project management experience within healthcare, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, or healthcare consulting environments.
- Previous client-facing consulting, agency, or professional services experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing projects involving medical affairs, medical access/market access, payer strategy, HEOR, or healthcare market research.
- Hands-on experience managing projects involving NCCN submissions, clinical compendia submissions, pre- or post-approval dossiers, or closely related evidence-generation deliverables.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects with competing priorities.
- Strong executive communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience reviewing project scopes, budgets, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Experience using digital project management platforms such as Jira, Asana, Monday.com, Birdview, Smartsheet, or similar software.
- Exceptional attention to detail, organization, and quality control.
Strongly Preferred
- Experience supporting oncology, hematology, or rare disease programs.
- Experience with healthcare market research projects.
- PMP certification.
- Experience working within Agile project environments.
Who Will Thrive Here
Our strongest Project Managers consistently demonstrate the ability to:
- Anticipate problems before others recognize them and help bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
- Build trust quickly with clients and colleagues and influence without formal authority.
- Remain calm under pressure while managing multiple priorities.
- Ask thoughtful questions rather than making assumptions.
- Communicate with confidence and professionalism at all organizational levels.
- Balance operational precision with flexibility as priorities evolve.
- Learn quickly and continuously improve.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving operational challenges, building long-term client relationships, and delivering exceptional work in a collaborative, fast-paced consulting environment.
Why Join Innovation Partners?
Joining Innovation Partners means becoming part of a collaborative, values-driven team committed to delivering meaningful work that helps innovative therapies reach patients.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Work with leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies.
- Gain exposure across oncology, hematology, rare disease, market access, medical affairs, and commercialization.
- Learn from experienced consultants and subject matter experts.
- Contribute to organizational growth and process improvement.
- Build leadership skills while advancing your career within a rapidly growing consulting firm.
Physical Demands
The physical demands of this job are consistent with light office duties. Some lifting of items/boxes may be required.
Ability to travel for work to lead projects onsite, up to 10-15% required. On average 2-3 trips per year, majority US but may be over weekends.
The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Work Environment
This position's work environment is based remotely from home.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those encountered by an employee while performing the essential functions of this job.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each role and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Innovation Partners is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
TO APPLY:
- Send Cover Letter and Resume to Innovation Partners
- Apply online at www.innovationpartners.org