Vice President, Project Leadership

Parexel

Vice President of Project Leadership at Parexel driving operational excellence in clinical trial management and stakeholder engagement. Ensuring project delivery success across multiple clinical services.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create a working environment that demands discipline across all aspects of project delivery
Establish a team of leaders with emotional intelligence, and a desire for authentic working relationships
Engage with Department Senior Leadership as a strategic advisor
Measure success through delivery of clinical services across the portfolio of studies managed by Directors and Project Leaders in finance, utilization, quality, compliance, and delivery
Maintain targets for profitability, margin expansion, cash flow, and contractual coverage across all projects within the portfolio
Interrogate financial data related to operational delivery
Drive teams to comply with data entry and accuracy
Participate in Risk Governance and routine surveillance of the portfolio to identify risk trends
Promote a holistic view of project quality and assess impact on patients, customers, investigators, and key stakeholders
Manage Employee Performance aligned to Parexel’s Talent Philosophy
Participate in a robust resource strategy
Ensure compliance with training needs and opportunities

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong business and financial acumen
Ability to communicate, manage information, and influence decision making up to the Executive Level
Ability to influence up, down and across organization; strong interpersonal, collaboration and partnership skills
Superior problem-solving, prioritization and decision making – act as tie breaker, making hard trade-off decisions
Willingness to be bold and accept accountability for actions
Demonstrated ability to deliver what was sold to the customer; anticipate what may not be in the customer’s line of sight and offer a solution-oriented approach
Ability to demonstrate value creation and delivery in global matrix environment where there is high accountability without ownership of resources
Experience managing in Global Markets
Strong command of written and spoken English language, local language proficiency as required
Expert project management experience, preferably in healthcare, clinical research, or contract research organization
Proven track record of developing client relationships at account level
Proven substantial leadership in a global, matrix environment
Different trial phase experience (including phases I-IV) will be an advantage/is desirable.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible working hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial acumenproject managementdata analysisrisk governancecompliancequality assessmentperformance managementresource strategyclinical services deliveryproblem-solving

Soft Skills

emotional intelligencecommunicationinfluenceinterpersonal skillscollaborationpartnership skillsprioritizationdecision makingaccountabilitycustomer relationship management