Project Manager (Software Development) - Latin America, Remote

Bluelight Consulting Llc; Quilmes; Remote; ARS 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluelight Consulting Llc in Buenos Aires, Argentina is seeking an Associate Project Lead to help deliver clinical studies for pharma projects, ensuring contractual requirements and SOP adherence.

You will liaise with clinical teams, manage vendor relationships, drive performance, and support the project leader to improve study speed, quality, and cost efficiency. This role offers cross-functional exposure and growth within a dynamic CRO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in life sciences or related field required.
• 4–5 years of clinical research experience, mostly in project management within CRO or pharma.
• Strong vendor management experience is mandatory.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication; strong presentation skills.
• Solid problem solving, organization and cross-functional collaboration.
• Good understanding of project financials.

Responsibilities

• Develop integrated study management plans with the core project team/sub-team.
• Serve as primary contact for vendors and lead vendor activities as required.
• Accountable for assigned portion of studies while optimizing speed, quality and cost.
• Set sub-team objectives and assess performance, communicating with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other functions to achieve milestones and manage issues.
• Monitor progress and present project/sub-team information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify risks/contingencies and work with project leader on resolution.
• Aim for project quality and implement corrective actions as needed.
• May serve as primary or back-up project contact for small projects.

Skills

Vendor management

Project management

Communication

English language

Problem solving

Organization

Cross-collaboration

Finances

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in life sciences

Job description

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Full time
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**Job Overview**
Associate Project Leads are an integral part of clinical trial delivery, liaising with clinical teams to improve patients' lives by bringing new drugs to the market faster. The Associate Project Lead is a member of the core project team responsible for project delivery of clinical studies to meet contractual requirements in accordance with SOPs, policies and practices. Clinical Project Management is focused on project delivery, productivity and quality resulting in strong financial performance and customer satisfaction. The Associate Project Lead support the efforts of CPM to drive operational excellence and strategic leadership with our customers. Associate Project Leads may run their own studies, as part of their development.
**Essential Function** s
- Provide input in to the development of integrated study management plans with the core project team and/or sub-team.
- Will be assigned as the primary contact for vendors leading project vendor management and vendor management related activities as per project requirements.
- Accountable for assigned portion of clinical studies as per the contract while optimizing speed, quality and cost of delivery and ensuring consistent use of study tools and training materials and compliance with standard processes, policies and procedures.
- Set objectives of project sub-team(s), according to agreed upon contract, strategy and approach, effectively communicate and assess performance.
- Collaborate with other functional groups within the company where necessary to support milestone achievement and to manage study issues and obstacles.
- Monitor progress against contract and prepare/present project and/or sub-team information proactively to internal stakeholders. Support the project leader to prepare/present project and/or sub-team information proactively to external stakeholders.
- Identify risk (positive and negative) and contingencies and partner with project leader in problem solving and resolution efforts.
- Achieve project quality by identifying quality risks and issues, responding to issues raised by project sub-team members and partner with project leader planning/implementing appropriate corrective and preventative action plans.
- May serve as primary (for small projects) or back-up project contact with customer.
- Lead the efforts of a project sub-team, responsible for managing cross-collaboration of the sub-team to support milestone achievement and to manage issues and obstacles.
- Support the project leader in ensuring the financial success of the project.
- Forecast and identify opportunities to accelerate activities to bring revenue forward in partnership with the senior project leader.
- Identify changes in scope and partner with project leader to manage change control process as necessary.
- Identify lessons learned and implement best practices.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree In life sciences or related field required.
- +4-5 years of clinical research experience, being the majority of those years in a project management capacity in a CRO or pharma company.
- **- Strong vendor management experience is mandatory.**
- Communication - Strong written and verbal communication skills including good command of **English language** . Strong presentation skills.
- Problem solving - Strong problem solving skills.
- Organisation - Planning, time management and prioritization skills. Ability to organize resources needed to accomplish tasks, set objectives and provide clear direction to others, experience planning activities in advance and taking account of possible changing circumstances.
- Cross-collaboration - Ability to work across geographies displaying high awareness and understanding of cultural differences.
- Finances - Good understanding of project financials.

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