Associate Director, Clinical Operations PM - Remote

Travere Therapeutics; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium health

Retirement plans

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Travere Therapeutics in San Diego remote is seeking an Associate Director, Project Management to lead departmental timelines for Clinical Operations and Clinical Pharmacology, building high-quality plans and providing clear visibility to milestones, risks, and decisions.

You will partner with Regulatory, Research, Biometrics, Medical Writing, CROs and vendors to integrate functional timelines into end-to-end program schedules, using Smartsheet for dashboards, dependencies and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences, pharmacy, business, project management, or related discipline required.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in biotech/pharma, including at least 4 years of direct project-management experience supporting R&D or clinical development activities in Biotech or Pharmaceutical industry.
• Demonstrated experience planning and managing complex, cross-functional, multi-study, or global development timelines from strategy through execution.
• Direct project-management experience supporting Clinical Operations and working knowledge of Clinical Pharmacology activities and deliverables. Experience supporting both functions is strongly preferred.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable formal project-management training is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own, develop, and maintain departmental timelines for Clinical Operations and Clinical Pharmacology across multiple studies and development programs, from early planning through key regulatory and clinical milestones.
• Build and administer scalable Smartsheet solutions, including integrated schedules, cross-sheet dependencies, reports, dashboards, automated workflows, baselines, and portfolio-level views that support timely, accurate decision-making.
• Translate functional strategies into executable plans with clear activities, durations, owners, milestones, assumptions, predecessor/successor logic, and critical-path visibility.
• Partner with overall program project managers to incorporate functional plans into integrated program timelines and maintain alignment with program strategy, governance decisions, and corporate priorities.
• Integrate Clinical Operations milestones such as study start-up, site activation, enrollment, data review, database lock, and clinical study reporting and Clinical Pharmacology deliverables such as bioanalysis, PK/PD analyses, modeling and simulation, dose rationale, and clinical pharmacology reports with overall Program timelines.
• Work cross-functionally with Regulatory, Research, Clinical Development, Biometrics, Medical Writing, and Program/Product Teams to map interdependencies, sequence handoffs, and build coherent end-to-end timelines.
• Identify rate-limiting steps and emerging schedule constraints; lead scenario planning, schedule compression, and recovery planning; and drive agreement on practical acceleration options, tradeoffs, and decision points.
• Facilitate timeline reviews and cross-functional planning sessions, constructively challenge assumptions and commitments, confirm accountability, and maintain clear action and decision records.
• Establish and maintain integrated risk, issue, action, and decision tracking; elevate material threats early with impact assessment, options, recommendations, and accountable owners.
• Provide concise dashboards, milestone forecasts, critical-path analyses, and status updates to functional leaders, program governance teams, and executive stakeholders.
• Support planning for regulatory interactions and submissions by ensuring that relevant clinical operations and clinical pharmacology activities, dependencies, reviews, and approvals are reflected in the integrated plan.
• Coordinate internal and external partner timelines, including CROs, laboratories, modeling vendors, and other service providers, and ensure vendor deliverables remain aligned with program milestones.
• Develop and implement consistent project-management standards, templates, naming conventions, quality checks, change-control practices, and reporting cadences for departmental timeline management.
• Contribute to functional capacity and resource planning by highlighting timing conflicts, competing priorities, cross-program dependencies, and potential execution bottlenecks.
• Champion a collaborative, accountable, and patient-focused operating culture that converts strategy into measurable execution.
• Additional duties assigned as needed.

Skills

Smartsheet

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Scheduling

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences, pharmacy, business, project management, or related discipline

PMP certification preferred

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Travere Therapeutics in San Diego remote is seeking an Associate Director, Project Management to lead departmental timelines for Clinical Operations and Clinical Pharmacology, building high-quality plans and providing clear visibility to milestones, risks, and decisions.

You will partner with Regulatory, Research, Biometrics, Medical Writing, CROs and vendors to integrate functional timelines into end-to-end program schedules, using Smartsheet for dashboards, dependencies and governance.