Global Clinical Trial Project Lead

RemoteFetch; North Carolina; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific seeks a Project Manager to lead as the project sponsor contact and oversee delivery across cross-functional teams, ensuring quality, time, and cost targets are met.

You will serve as the primary liaison between the sponsor and the organization, manage escalation pathways, delineate responsibilities for regional leads and vendors, and maintain clear communications to drive on-time milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.
• 8+ years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary contact between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.
• Ensure escalation pathways adhered to internally and externally (Rules of Engagement - communication pathways).
• On projects where the scope requires, ensure clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (such as lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery).
• Accountable for the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time, cost, quality).
• Ensure financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out of Scope activity, drive the Con Mod process/negotiations and team execution to timelines.
• Establish, communicate and manage customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project.
• Drive Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at project level (RBQM/RESOLVE).
• Ensure project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH- GCP, regulatory and project specific requirements.

Skills

Project leadership

Communication

Financial acumen

Negotiation

Analytical thinking

Cross-cultural awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CTMS

Preclarus

Clarity

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Thermo Fisher Scientific seeks a Project Manager to lead as the project sponsor contact and oversee delivery across cross-functional teams, ensuring quality, time, and cost targets are met.

You will serve as the primary liaison between the sponsor and the organization, manage escalation pathways, delineate responsibilities for regional leads and vendors, and maintain clear communications to drive on-time milestones.