Senior Clinical Project Manager

Deciphera Pharmaceuticals; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmaceutical company is seeking a Senior Clinical Project Manager to oversee complex clinical studies. The role involves ensuring trial success through effective management, strategic insight, and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates should have extensive experience in clinical research and strong leadership skills.

Benefits

Competitive salary and annual bonus.

Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance.

401(k) retirement plan with company match.

Generous parental leave and family planning benefits.

Outstanding culture and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years in clinical research with management of complex clinical trials.
• Extensive experience in managing high-volume/complex clinical studies.
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Leads and manages complex clinical studies.
• Ensures successful clinical trial planning, execution, and delivery.
• Manages several clinical trials through leading and delegating to a CFT.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in health science or related field

Job description

Company Description

Job Description

The Role:

The Senior Clinical Project Manager leads and manages a more complex clinical studies, demonstrating a higher level of knowledge of clinical operations' methodologies, stronger organizational, project management and leadership capabilities as well as increase strategic insight, decisiveness and strong judgement

What You'll Do:

• Ensures successful clinical trial planning, execution and delivery within specified quality, time and cost parameters
• Ensure alignment of clinical project goals with Clinical Operations program objectives and seeks to create greater value at the CFT level through optimal leveraging of budgets, timelines and resources.
• Evaluates current methodologies and questions whether there are more efficient or effective approaches to clinical studies
• May manage several clinical trials through leading and delegating to a CFT, working under the guidance and direction of the Director, Clinical Operations
• Leads matrix, multi-disciplinary, cross-functional study teams and ensures collaboration across functional areas
• Provides guidance, oversight of and is an advocate for the CFT, proactively identifies, negotiates, and brokers solutions to clinical study issues and challenges
• Delegates to support staff to ensure clinical studies at a project level are executed within specified time, quality and cost parameters
• Leads negotiations/interactions with external partnerships (e.g. CRO) to ensure partners are effectively supporting clinical trials within contracted terms
• Ensure that clinical trials are feasible, engages CFT to address concerns/issues relating to patient enrollment, site selection, data collection
• Demonstrates excitement around the Vison and Mission of Deciphera and the department
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in health science or related field
• Minimum of 8 years in clinical research with management of complex clinical trials
• Demonstrates extensive experience and expertise in managing high-volume/complex clinical studies
• Proactively and independently manages vendors, including identification and mitigation of risk
• Demonstrates understanding of complexities of decision-makers and stakeholders
• Demonstrates ability to lead multi functional team
• As of result of being a member and leader of CFT, develops comprehensive understanding of different internal and external departments and functions within Deciphera and independencies of the functions and vendors

Very strong verbal, written and presentation skills are required

Additional Information

Deciphera is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base salary pay range for this role is $139,000.00 - $191,000. Actual compensation packages will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to depth of experience, education, skillset, overall performance and/or location.

Deciphera believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package to all employees. Our base salary is just one component of Deciphera's competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual performance bonus, a long-term incentive plan, full range of benefits and other incentive compensation plans (if applicable)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with company match, and more.
• Generous parental leave and family planning benefits.
• Outstanding culture and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

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