Project Director - Medical R&D

Alimentiv; Toronto; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accommodations for job applicants with disabilities upon request

Home-based work

Job summary

A clinical research organization seeks a primary regional representative in Toronto, Ontario, who will oversee the execution and delivery of clinical projects, ensuring quality and adherence to regulations. Responsibilities include establishing strong client relationships, monitoring project planning, and contributing to business development. Candidates need a minimum of seven years of experience and a relevant degree. This role offers home-based working conditions with occasional travel and requires strong communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of seven years of related work experience and ongoing training.
• Exhibit self-motivation with strong communication skills.
• Capable of engaging in continuous learning and self-development.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to build collaborative relationships.
• Ability to engage in continuous learning and self-development.
• Ability to continually foster teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary regional representative for clinical projects.
• Establish and maintain high-quality client relationships throughout the project life cycle.
• Oversee project planning and implementation activities.
• Ensure delivery complies with project and regulatory guidelines and is completed on time.
• Communicate project progress and issues clearly to stakeholders; manage risks and changes.

Skills

Self-motivation

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Commitment to achieving results

Education

Three-year College Advance Diploma/Degree in Health Sciences or Clinical Research

Job description

Role Overview

Acts as the primary regional representative for the execution and delivery of clinical project(s); cultivate excellent Sponsor relationships, provide project oversight, assisting with project delivery services as required, ensuring that projects are adequately and appropriately staffed, meet sponsors quality, schedule, and budgetary requirements, that delivery is consistent with project and regulatory guidelines/requirements and are consistently completed on time. Champion the project forecasting process, monitor third party agreements, manage team performance, and ensure overall project control standards are established, monitored, met and, where appropriate, improved. Contribute to Business Development activities by assisting with proposals, bid defenses and prospect development. Responsibilities may also include additional Administrative, Staff and Budgetary responsibilities for a small satellite office.

Client Relations

• Establish and maintain high quality, well-functioning client relationships throughout project life cycle, working with client(s) and CPMs to establish delivery expectations, metric, and communication standards
• Ensuring client remains well informed on project progress, risks, issues and changing needs and that clients' queries are appropriately addressed and resolved in a timely manner, within established project guidelines/standards
• When required assist with RFP/bid defense processes

Project Delivery

• Oversee, monitor and/or manage project planning and implementation activities
• Working with CPMs and other functional specialists to deliver high quality projects that include all required elements within pre-established corporate standards
• Review and approve project scope, budget, metrics, tools, recruitment, and training requirements with CPM ensuring all project elements are in place, are realistic, are completed and delivered, and adhere to all project and regulatory requirements

Control and Evaluation

• Oversee and review project critical path(s) providing guidance and regular feedback to Clinical Project Managers to ensure process aligns with client expectations, that project SOPs, controls, guidelines, regulatory standards, and industry best practice are being met or exceeded, and that consistent high quality service level is maintained from internal and third-party providers throughout the project life cycle

Project Services Communication

• Identify, review and/or deliver communications, using the most appropriate medium and methodology, to project team(s) and stakeholders throughout the project life cycle to ensure roles and responsibilities, project progress, project delivery or data issues and ongoing project planning/ methodology revisions are clearly communicated and understood
• Established stakeholder feedback processes, to confirm issues always addressed appropriately, in a timely manner

Unit Performance

• Evaluate, assign, and monitor unit resource requirements to ensure all current and upcoming projects are planned, staffed and resourced appropriately and that staff and third-party vendor performance meets or exceeds sponsor, project and regulatory expectation
• This will include hiring, terminations, performance evaluations, staff training and development activities and providing input to the director during the corporate budget process

Qualifications

• Applicants should have a minimum of seven years of related work experience with ongoing training, and a three-year College Advance Diploma/Degree in a relevant field of study, preferable in (Health) Sciences or Clinical Research.
• The successful candidate must exhibit the following skills: self-motivation with strong communication skills and a commitment to achieving positive results.
• Strong attention to detail and keenness to understand the importance of building collaborative relationships to achieve results
• Ability to engage in continuous learning and self-development
• Ability to continually foster teamwork

Working conditions

• Home Based
• Occasional travel
• Accommodations for job applicants with disabilities are available upon request