Is Project Management still a thing in our industry? I’m hearing that this is being “phased out” and some agencies even eliminated it already. Who still has project management?

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It most assuredly is still a thing and very necessary.

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There is no end in sight for PMs - only more responsibility and accountability as holding companies pressure for greater earnings and efficiencies. No other discipline has the technical skills that will support this growth.

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McCann Health has project managers. We would die without them.

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PM’s are the holy grail.

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How else do you handle submissions? Of all things, pharma needs PMs the most

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OP, where do you work? What you describe is the work of 3 different functions: project coordination (traffic), project management, and copy. None of that is account.

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1. Yes.
2. We do and there is no indication that we will get rid of our PMs anytime soon.

FWIW I have seen many AEs and PMs switch departments often, especially when they hop to another pharma shop. I think there are overlaps in terms of the skills needed and general personality types.

When I was there, SSH tried to make all jr acct people track to the PM role. Didn’t go well. On the other hand, for some reason, WPP companies seem to have the best PMs and the worst structure.

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