Project Manager - Future Roles (UK)

Syneos Health; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Project Manager for Future Roles (UK) to lead interdisciplinary clinical research studies, ensure GCP compliance, and manage timelines and budgets. You will act as the primary liaison with customers, coordinate study partners, and drive delivery of study milestones within a global biopharmaceutical services context.

The role requires strong organizational and communication skills, knowledge of GCP/ICH, and approximately 25% travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, nursing or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• CRO experience and relevant therapeutic experience preferred; strong knowledge of GCP/ICH and regulatory requirements.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage time independently.
• Direct therapeutic area expertise.
• Ability to embrace new technologies.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills (written and spoken).
• Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 25%).

Responsibilities

• Project Leadership and Delivery. Manages a project as a project manager overseeing interdisciplinary clinical research studies and ensures compliance with GCP, SOPs, and regulatory requirements.
• Acts as a primary liaison between the Company and the Customer to ensure timely study launch, conduct, and closeout according to contractual agreements.
• Lead project team to ensure quality, timelines and budget management.
• Accountable for the financial performance of each project; coordinate activities and deliverables of all study conduct partners and proactively identify and manage issues.
• Ensure studies are conducted in compliance with GCP, SOPs and regulatory requirements; accountable for all project deliverables.
• Responsible for quality and completeness of TMF for assigned projects.
• Accountable for maintenance of study information on databases/systems.
• Responsible for study management components of inspection readiness; oversight for project plans development/implementation.
• Plan, coordinate and present at internal/external meetings; prepare project management reports for clients and management.
• Develop contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery of study goals.
• Develop strong relationships with current clients to generate new/add-on business for the future.
• May participate in bid defense meetings as potential project manager.
• May line manage other project management team members and clinical monitoring staff.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

GCP knowledge

Communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences/medicine/pharmacy/nursing or equivalent

Job description

Description

Project Manager - Future Roles (UK)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring a wide range of talented experts together across a wide range of business-critical services that support our business. Every role within Corporate is vital to furthering our vision of Shortening the Distance from Lab to Life®.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know.

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives – we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

Job Responsibilities

• Project Leadership and Delivery. Manages a project as a project manager overseeing interdisciplinary clinical research studies and ensures compliance with GCP, relevant SOP’s, and regulatory requirements.
• Acts as a primary liaison between the Company and the Customer to ensure timely study launch, conduct, and closeout according to the Customer’s and the Company’s contractual agreement.
• Lead project team to ensure quality, timelines and budget management.
• Accountable for the financial performance of each project. Coordinate activities and deliverables of all study conduct partners and proactively identify and manage issues.
• Ensure studies are conducted in compliance with GCP, relevant SOP’s and regulatory requirements. Accountable for all project deliverables for each project assigned.
• Responsible for quality and completeness of TMF for assigned projects.
• Accountable for maintenance of study information on a variety of databases and systems.
• Responsible for study management components of inspection readiness for all aspects of the study conduct. Oversight for development and implementation of project plans.
• Plan, coordinate and present at internal and external meetings. Prepare project management reports for clients and management.
• Developing contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery of study goals.
• Develops strong relationships with current clients to generate new and/or add-on business for the future.
• May participate in bid defense meetings where presented as potential project manager.
• May be required to line manage other project management team members and clinical monitoring staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) level of qualification in life sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Clinical research organization (CRO) and relevant therapeutic experience preferred. Strong knowledge of Good Clinical Practice/ICH guidelines and other applicable regulatory requirements
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong ability to manage time and work independently.
• Direct therapeutic area expertise.
• Ability to embrace new technologies.
• Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal skills, both written and spoken.
• Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 25%).

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

http://www.syneoshealth.com

Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Summary

Roles within Clinical Project Management job family are responsible for planning, directing, creating and communicating clinical study time-lines. Gathers input from cross-functional teams and creates plans that help the team produce deliverables on schedule. Ensures consistency of clinical study and processes across clinical trials, overseeing and resolving operational aspects of clinical trials in conjunction with project teams and in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOP), good clinical practice (GCP) and specific country regulations such as site and vendor selection, preparing clinical trial budgets. Ensures studies are conducted within clinical trial protocols, monitoring progress and following up with team members and line managers when issues develop. Implements and prepares the clinical development strategy as outlined by the clinical teams. May develop trial recruitment strategies. Impact and Contribution Includes executives as well as managers, supervisors and team leads providing strategic vision and/or tactical direction across a discipline and/or broader organization. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, planning, prioritizing, and/or directing the responsibilities of employees. Goal are achieved through management of process, policy, and performance of direct and/or indirect reports.Supervises experienced support employees and/or entry individual contributors. Delivers operational results that have moderate impact on the immediate achievement of results for the team. Broad job knowledge in an operational, administrative and/or specialized field, adapts new procedures, techniques, tools, etc. Understands basic management approaches such as work scheduling, prioritizing, coaching and process execution.