Marie Abraham

Medscape is the world’s leading online content provider of continuing medical education for healthcare professionals. Their clients are in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

• Leading a team of Program Managers to positively support continued growth and delivery of multiple, concurrent, large-scale portfolios of projects within the Global Program Management business unit
• Team growth and hiring - onboarding, training, mentorship, and day to day line management responsibilities
• Leadership function within the program management department. Drive the importance of localization efforts and key business needs for the Global regions
• Maintain and enforce high standards of communications and documentation, including status and financial reports, timelines, forecasting, best practices, and asset management.
• Maintain departmental values, vision, direction, and responsibilities with key business stakeholders.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to continuously optimize existing operational processes and systems, ensuring buy-in and compliance
• Provide solutions-oriented leadership and creatively solve complex problems
• Partner with Director-level stakeholders to manage day to day business operations, team job satisfaction and strategic planning for future growth

• Project management of certified online multimedia medical education programs as outlined in the position below with additional responsibility for process improvement, training and coaching:
• Lead the continuous change culture: analyze, test, pilot and challenge established internal processes and automated workflows (buy-in/influencing skills are essential here)
• Mentor/coach for junior program managers with the key role of fostering a positive, transparent and solutions-based work environment

• Lead the international project team - ensure quality delivery and manage key internal and external stakeholder relationships. This is a matrix team structure with members located across the globe.
• Initiation, planning, implementation, ownership, management, and delivery of several portfolios of online multimedia educational programs
• Ensure effective communication within multiple internal and international teams (video producers, sales, web production, studio, event team, marketing, designers, speakers/talent, project coordinators, scientific directors, medical writers)
• Maintain quality and ensure delivery within product specifications – on time and within budget.
• This is highly automated with a standard workflow and asset management strategy
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks

Prologis is the leading owner, operator, and developer of industrial real estate, focused on global and regional markets across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

• Management and strategic planning of European events (exhibitions, customer events, etc.)
• Project management of marketing collateral (newsletters, brochures, websites, etc.)
• Collaborating with and providing guidance to regional marketing leads
• Internal communications

Excerpta Medica is an international medical communications agency, with clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

• Project management for international events (advisory boards, conferences, satellite symposia) and enduring materials (newsletters, brochures, marketing materials, websites)
• Create detailed project plans and timelines.
• Lead project teams and manage workflow within the established deadlines and budgets
• Foster and maintain client and KOL (Key Opinion Leader) relationships
• Speaker management and team management
• Account management

• Along with the tasks mentioned below for the Project Coordinator role, additional responsibility for speaker management, project management, team training and coaching.

• Logistical project management for international events:
• Managing third parties such as logistics agencies, congress organizers, hotels, etc.
• Frequent international travel to execute site inspections, venue selection and managing on-site event logistics
• Management of staging, audio visual and technical requirements for the events
• Coordination and management of electronic and print products (websites, signage, invitations, etc.)
• Financial administration, budgets, supplier negotiations and contracting