Clinical Portfolio Delivery Manager

Syneos Health/ inVentiv Health Commercial LLC; Morrisville (NC); On-site; USD 81,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car/allowance

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k match

Stock Purchase Plan

PTO & sick leave

Job summary

Syneos Health is seeking a Project Manager, Clinical Portfolio to independently plan, manage and deliver initiatives across the Clinical Future Operating Model Portfolio. You will lead structured project management across transformation and cross-functional clinical workstreams, owning delivery with executives and SMEs.

The role requires driving accountability, coordinating multiple workstreams and maintaining governance artifacts.

Qualifications

• Experience independently managing projects, transformation initiatives or cross-functional delivery work.
• Strong project management skills across planning, RAID, reporting and governance.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong organisation, attention to detail and stakeholder management.
• Experience using project management, reporting or portfolio tools.

Responsibilities

• Independently manage clinical portfolio initiatives from mobilisation through delivery, closure and handover.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, RAID logs, action logs, decision logs and dependency trackers.
• Drive day-to-day execution, ensuring workstreams remain aligned to scope, timelines, governance expectations and delivery commitments.
• Lead project meetings, workstream check-ins and stakeholder forums to drive progress, resolve blockers and maintain accountability.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, including business owners, workstream leads, SMEs and enabling functions.
• Define and maintain clear project scope, objectives, deliverables, roles, success measures and ownership.
• Identify, manage, document, and escalate risks, issues, dependencies in a timely and decision-ready manner.
• Prepare executive summaries, project status updates and governance inputs.
• Real-time maintenance of accurate and current project information in Smartsheet and agreed systems of record.
• Partner with portfolio leadership to align risks, dependencies, escalations and decisions to governance requirements.
• Drive delivery discipline through action tracking, milestone follow-up, decision management and escalation.
• Support KPI and benefits tracking in partnership with the Value Realisation Office.
• Partner with Business to embed change impact, readiness, learning, adoption and hyper care into delivery.
• Support process mapping, RACI clarification, handoff identification and transition planning where required.
• Ensure implementation and project closure activities are completed.
• Manage confidentiality requirements for restricted or sensitive initiatives.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PM templates, Smartsheet toolkits, governance standards and ways of working.
• Provide business flex PM support where structured project management capability is required.
• Perform other work-related duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Independent work

Attention to detail

Change readiness

Tools

Smartsheet

Job description

Syneos Health is seeking a Project Manager, Clinical Portfolio to independently plan, manage and deliver initiatives across the Clinical Future Operating Model Portfolio. You will lead structured project management across transformation and cross-functional clinical workstreams, owning delivery with executives and SMEs.

The role requires driving accountability, coordinating multiple workstreams and maintaining governance artifacts.