German Speaking Freelance Senior Project Manager

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

About Our Project Management Craft

• Our Project Management Craft brings structure and momentum to complex work.
• The team plans, coordinates, and tracks delivery across disciplines.
• They ensure projects stay on time, on scope, and on budget.
• Their work enables collaboration and efficiency.

As a Freelance Senior Project Manager, this role manages delivery across complex healthcare and pharmaceutical work streams, partnering closely with Client Services and cross-functional teams. This position brings clarity to scope, timelines, budgets, resourcing, risks, and client expectations. The role requires fluent German communication to support German-speaking clients, stakeholders, and project teams.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end project management across multi-work stream healthcare or pharmaceutical projects using tools such as Smartsheet, JIRA, Microsoft Project, or TFS
• Partner with Client Services, discipline leads, and German-speaking stakeholders to align deliverables, timelines, budgets, and expectations
• Manage scope, timelines, budgets, forecasting, risks, and resource plans across active client engagements
• Track project progress and provide clear status reporting, escalation updates, and delivery recommendations to stakeholders
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across strategy, creative, medical, technology, media, and client services to maintain delivery standards

 

Required:

• 5+ years of project management experience delivering complex client-facing projects in agency, consulting, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or life sciences environments.
• Fluent German and English communication skills, including experience managing project updates, risks, or client discussions in German.
• Demonstrated experience managing scope, budgets, timelines, forecasting, and resource plans across multiple concurrent work streams.
• Hands-on experience using project management tools such as Smartsheet, JIRA, Microsoft Project, or TFS to manage active delivery.
• Experience partnering with Client Services and cross-functional teams to deliver integrated client-facing work.
• Experience applying waterfall and/or agile methodologies across multidisciplinary teams.

Desired:

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience supporting distributed teams across multiple locations or time zones.
• Experience presenting delivery status, risks, and recommendations to senior stakeholders or clients.
• Familiarity with SCRUM methodology and agile delivery practices.
• Understanding of organisational change management in project delivery environments.
• Strong financial and operational awareness demonstrated through project or portfolio reporting.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.