Global Clinical Project Lead

IQVIA Inc; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IQVIA Inc is seeking a Clinical Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of clinical trials within sponsor environments. The role involves managing timelines, budgets, risk, and cross-functional teams to keep studies on track and compliant, embedded within a sponsor’s team for deep therapeutic and operational exposure.

You will oversee regional and global studies, developing integrated management plans and ensuring quality, speed, and cost efficiency, while leveraging IQVIA’s global

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Life sciences or related field.
• 5 years of prior relevant experience including > 2 years of project management experience or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Prior Regional or Global Clinical Project Management experience.
• Leadership - Ability to work through others to deliver results to the appropriate quality and timeline metrics, monitoring/managing performance and providing feedback, experience productively partnering cross functionally and with customers to advance work effectively and efficiently.
• 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.
• Quality - Attention to detail and accuracy in work. Results-oriented approach to work towards delivery and output.
• Collaboration - Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients. Strong customer service skills.
• Finances - Good understanding of project financials including experience managing, contractual obligations and implications.
• IQVIA Core Competencies - Ability to demonstrate all IQVIA competencies (Client Focus, Collaboration, Communication, innovation, Ownership).

Responsibilities

• Participate in bid defense presentations in partnership with Business Development and may lead the presentation for smaller, less complex regional studies.
• May be responsible for delivery and management of smaller, less complex, regional studies.
• Develop integrated study management plans with the core project team.
• Accountable for the execution of clinical studies, or assigned portion of clinical studies, per 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 the core project team and/or 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 stakeholders internally and externally.
• Manage risk (positive and negative) and contingencies proactively and lead problem solving and resolution efforts.
• Achieve project quality by identifying quality risks and issues, responding to issues raised by project team and/or sub-team members and planning/implementing appropriate corrective and preventative action plans.
• May serve as primary or backup project contact with customer and would then own the relationship with the project’s key customer contacts, as well as communicate/collaborate with IQVIA business development representatives, as necessary.
• Build the cross-functional project team and lead their efforts; responsible for managing cross-collaboration of the core team and for overall project delivery to support milestone achievement and to manage study issues and obstacles.
• Ensure the financial success of the project.
• Forecast and identify opportunities to accelerate activities to bring revenue forward.
• Identify changes in scope and manage change control process as necessary.
• Identify lessons learned and implement best practices.
• May be assigned as the primary contact for vendors leading project vendor management and vendor management related activities as per project requirements.
• Adopt corporate initiatives and changes and serve as a change advocate when necessary.
• Provide input to line managers of their project team members’ performance relative to project tasks.
• Support staff development and mentor less experienced project team members on assigned projects to support their professional development.

Skills

Leadership

Organisation

Quality

Collaboration

Finances

Education

Bachelor’s Degree Life sciences or related field

Job description

IQVIA Inc is seeking a Clinical Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of clinical trials within sponsor environments. The role involves managing timelines, budgets, risk, and cross-functional teams to keep studies on track and compliant, embedded within a sponsor’s team for deep therapeutic and operational exposure.

You will oversee regional and global studies, developing integrated management plans and ensuring quality, speed, and cost efficiency, while leveraging IQVIA’s global