Senior Life Sciences Project Lead — Remote

Escalent; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k with Company Match

Flexible PTO

Paid Parental leave

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Hybrid/Virtual Work

Job summary

Escalent is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end projects, overseeing logistics, vendor relationships, and strategic recommendations to the insights team. You will coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure on-time delivery, quality, and budget adherence.

In this remote role, you’ll collaborate with Insights, Consulting, Sales, and Growth teams, manage sample design and budgeting, and maintain clear client communication while upholding regulatory and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business related field required. Advanced degree a plus. A combination of experience and education can be considered in lieu of four-year degree.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in project management for complex life sciences research projects at a full-service market research agency
• Proven project management experience (including cost estimating, field management, timeline, compliance and budget management etc.) with a focus on primary market research (both qualitative and quantitative)
• 3+ years in a client-facing role, demonstrating excellent client relationship management
• Experience managing market research projects for healthcare, pharma, or life sciences is required
• Advanced proficiency in managing quantitative (online) and qualitative (in -depth interviews, online focus groups etc.) research methodologies
• Must be able to handle multiple project assignments simultaneously.
• Must have excellent time management skills.
• Must be detail-orientated, self-motivated and exhibit high ethical skills.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with project teams inside the company and clients outside.
• Able to work effectively within a team-oriented, highly collaborative environment.
• Understand and speak with confidence in life sciences vernacular as it pertains to audience, therapeutic area, and approach.
• Role is remote, but would prefer working ET hours.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with colleagues in Insights & Consulting and Sales & Strategic Growth on bids and cost estimates for accurate design and pricing of our solutions and bring a project management discipline to delivering our work on-time, at high quality, within budget and ideally with a healthy margin.
• Upon being awarded the work, you kick off the project with the internal systems and project team.
• You are critical to the Insights & Consulting roles as well as our Operations teams and Centers of Excellence in communicating timelines and making sure they are ready to support an on-time, on budget delivery of milestone or final deliverables.
• You will serve as a thinking partner to solve any problems encountered along the way.
• Act as client-facing lead on all sample and logistics matters
• Responsible for ensuring and supporting project compliance and pharmacovigilance requirements are understood, documented, and executed in accordance with client, internal, and regulatory expectations

Skills

Project management

Client-facing

Budget management

Timeline planning

Cost estimating

Field management

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Healthcare experience

Communication skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Life sciences terms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business related field

Advanced degree a plus

Job description

Escalent is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead end-to-end projects, overseeing logistics, vendor relationships, and strategic recommendations to the insights team. You will coordinate cross-functional efforts to ensure on-time delivery, quality, and budget adherence.

In this remote role, you’ll collaborate with Insights, Consulting, Sales, and Growth teams, manage sample design and budgeting, and maintain clear client communication while upholding regulatory and quality standards.