Project Manager

Pharmaceutical Research Associates, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading clinical research organization as a Project Manager, where you will utilize your expertise to manage and create integrated study timelines. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring project milestones are met, and providing operational input to streamline processes. You will be part of a diverse culture that values high performance and nurtures talent, with a focus on well-being and work-life balance. If you are passionate about making an impact in clinical research and possess strong project management skills, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Retirement Planning

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance

Flexible Benefits

Childcare Vouchers

Discounted Gym Memberships

Subsidised Travel Passes

Health Assessments

Various Annual Leave Entitlements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or international equivalent required; Life Sciences preferred.
• Knowledge in regulatory and compliance for clinical research is essential.
• Experience in project/program management and matrix leadership is required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead study timeline discussions and maintain timelines.
• Monitor project progress and identify potential delays or roadblocks.
• Provide subject matter expertise for timeline management and MSP training.

Skills

Project Management

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Teamwork

Organizational Skills

Regulatory Knowledge

Fluent English

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences

Tools

Microsoft Project (MSP)

Microsoft Suite (MS Teams, Word, Excel)

SharePoint

Job description

Overview

As a Project Manager/Integrated Study Timeline Manager you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence.

Responsibilities

What you will be doing:

• Provides subject matter expertise and operational input into creating timelines utilizing Takeda’s integrated study timeline templates.
• Attend and actively participate in study execution team meetings for activities related to timelines.
• Coordinate and lead study timeline related and cross-functional discussions to support customization and maintenance of timelines through IST alignment meetings.
• Identification of critical path items related to timelines management.
• Identification and remediation of illogical sequence of events, gaps, duplicate or conflicting activities for study timelines.
• Run timeline status reports and post updated timelines regularly.
• Create SharePoint Users roles and provide access to study team members for timeline materials.
• Monitor project progress and identify potential delays or roadblocks.
• Work with cross functional team members to ensure tasks are completed as scheduled.
• Create all material related to IST (i.e., Kick off Meeting Materials) development for customization and handover.
• Review of study related material and protocol to drive discussion related to study timelines.
• Support Microsoft project (MSP) training and creation of tools needed for MSP timelines.
• Develop and maintain templates and tools related to Takeda global timeline templates.
• Support open house-training sessions for timelines template and MS project utilization.
• Collaborate with the study team to update the study timelines during all stages of a clinical trial study.
• Provide expertise for MSP and timeline related processes and documents.

Qualifications

You are:

• Bachelor’s Degree or international equivalent required; Life Sciences preferred.
• Knowledge in global regulatory and compliance requirements for clinical research, including but not limited to US CFR, EU CTD, and ICH GCP. Awareness of local country requirements is also an asset.
• Demonstrated successful experience in project/program management and matrix leadership.
• Excellent communication skills as needed for facilitation, negotiating, risk management.
• Excellent teamwork, organizational, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated successful experience in managing multiple studies concurrently.
• Fluent business English (oral and written).
• Proficient with Microsoft Suite (MS Team, Word, Excel, and MSP). Understand the lifecycle and activities in a clinical trial.
• Knowledge and experience with SharePoint including adding users, documents and updating lists within a SharePoint sites.

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent. In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work-life balance opportunities for you and your family. Examples of our benefits include:

• Various annual leave entitlements.
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance.
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below: https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations.

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.