Project Manager Sales

Sara Boyce

Email: abpbnv@r.postjobfree.com

Address: ** ********* *****

City: Tuxedo Park

State: NY

Zip: 10987

Country: USA

Phone: 845-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: 80

Willing to Relocate

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-focused Management Executive with over 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Well versed in multiple areas including client services, operations and sales. Seeking to leverage extensive experience providing leadership in the planning and execution of a wide range of medical communications projects across diverse therapeutic areas.

AGENCY EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Millennium Communications Group - Parsippany, NJ 9/06 to 4/12

Senior Project Manager

Acted as a liaison for clientele from Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis, Forest, Astellas, Savient, Ortho Biotech, PharmaDerm and Merck. Worked with client brand teams and internal teams in the development of custom programs, such as: Sales Rep training materials, Symposiums, product launches, direct mail programs, physician and consumer campaigns, e-learning tools and multimedia programs. Responsibilities included actively participating in medical/legal/regulatory review meetings in each project managed, coupled with expertise in electronic submission/review programs required by individual clients. Worked extensively with graphic designers, writers, proofreaders, translation and transcription services, web and interactive designers, printers, journals, premium suppliers, and exhibit companies.

Accomplishments:

Provided sales support to a team of 9 individuals which included seeking out new business opportunities, proposal development and budgetary information

Developed and administrated the company's project tracking system for over 40 simultaneous projects

Established specifications, defined and assigned tasks, prepared and maintained project timelines, developed and managed budgets, negotiated, awarded, and administrated contracts to vendors totaling $5 million in sales annually

Developed and administrated the company's invoice processing and approval system which included invoice approval, reporting and analysis of over $15 million of vendor invoices

Developed and maintained the company's vendor/freelance database system which included rates, specialty and feedback

Sold and managed the program materials used at the Annual Symposium at the International Liver Transplantation Society for Astellas Pharmaceutical for the last five years, held in cities such as Hong Kong, Paris, Brazil, San Francisco and Madrid

Managed an $1.6 million multi-faceted Prostate Awareness Campaign for Ortho Biotech - responsible for the overall client experience, including coordinating weekly status teleconferences, reviewing and receiving comments from 4 clients at 4 different locations across the US

Healthways Communications, Inc. - Secaucus, NJ 5/94 to 7/06

VP/Senior Project Manager

Provided leadership in the planning and execution of a wide range of medical communication projects, across diverse therapeutic areas for Pharmaceutical companies such as Pharmacia, Upjohn, Bayer, Schering/Plough, Fujisawa Healthcare, Pfizer, Wyeth, and Merck. Worked with client brand teams and internal teams in the development of custom programs, such as: Direct mail campaigns, publication planning, exhibit booths, product launches, CME programs, Speaker Bureaus, slide kits, educational programs, Symposiums, Advisory boards, round table events, physician and consumer campaigns, multimedia and web based programs.

Accomplishments:

Provided sales support to a team of 5 individuals which included seeking out new business opportunities, proposal development and budget information

Managed the daily operations of the Creative Department, including Production and supervised a team of six individuals, as well as hiring freelance vendors

Established specifications, defined and assigned tasks, prepared and maintained project timelines, developed and managed budgets, negotiated, awarded, and administrated contracts to vendors totaling about $10 million per year

Negotiated and achieved a savings of about $750 k annually for meeting supplies and services

Established an in-house travel agency, saving over $200 k in travel related costs

Developed and implemented with the CFO a project reporting system that measured profitability totaling $20 million of projects using QuickBooks Enterprise

Ran meetings in the US and abroad with at least 300 attendees, assisted in the coordination of attendee activities, attendee materials, faculty slide presentations, travelling globally

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Medical Marketing & Communications Group

Pharmaceutical Marketing Group of NY/NJ

Print Production Professionals of NY/NJ

EDUCATION

PACE University - graduated with a Bachelor of Arts

SUNY Purchase - Communications and Advertising Major

SUNY Purchase Scholarship - Study Abroad Program - Mexico City - 1 year program studying Spanish language and Art History

Other seminars attended: promotion design, package design, corporate identity, managerial, HTML web design

PROFICIENCY

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Adobe Acrobat Professional

Adobe Creative Suite - InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

Project Management Software: Microsoft Sharepoint and Microsoft Project

References are available upon request.

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