Syneos Health

Associate Project Director

Syneos Health

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Australia

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Google Cloud PlatformPMP

About the role

  • Manages a project as a Project Manager overseeing interdisciplinary clinical research studies and/or programs and ensures compliance with GCP, relevant SOP’s and regulatory requirements
  • Acts as primary liaison and/or facilitator between the Company and the Customer to ensure project launch, conduct, and closeout according to the Customer’s and the Company's contractual agreement
  • Leads project team to ensure quality, timelines and budget management
  • Implements resource strategies to achieve project goals
  • Accountable for all project deliverables for assigned projects
  • Develops contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery of study goals
  • Identifies and implements performance improvement and operational efficiencies
  • Maintains and evaluates project progress by maintaining timelines, project plans and other tracking/analysis tools
  • Produces and distributes status, resourcing, and tracking reports as well as functional area plan to customers, appropriate team members and senior management
  • Maintains effective communication with the Customer and project team through oral and written correspondence, project status reports, and monthly progress reports; ensures adequate documentation of each communication
  • Attends and presents information at internal and external project meetings
  • Develops strong relationships with current and prospective clients to generate new and/or add-on business for the future
  • Supports the Business Development Department by providing information on Company's capabilities, patient populations, etc. and presents Company capabilities as well as project management specific responsibilities at Customer proposal defense meetings
  • Works with Business Development and the Proposal/Contracts groups to develop proposals for Customer requested opportunities. Works with this team to develop budgets and scope of work for the final contract
  • Responsible for quality and completeness of TMF for assigned projects
  • Accountable for the financial performance of each project assignment
  • Accountable for all project deliverables for each project assigned
  • Accountable for maintenance of study information on a variety of databases and systems
  • Responsible for study management components of inspection readiness for all aspects of the study conduct
  • Demonstrates mastery of current business unit therapeutic environment and drug development trends and facilitates the development of knowledge for more junior staff
  • Facilitates team training in accordance with protocol and/or project requirements including therapeutic, protocol specific, and process training
  • Serves as team leader and line manages and mentors other project management and clinical monitoring staff
  • Facilitates team building and communication
  • Ability to successfully deliver a project through successful delegation and oversight of project and functional leads

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) level of qualification in life sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Ideally Project Management qualified i.e. Prince II or PMP / equivalent
  • Strong knowledge of Good Clinical Practice/ICH guidelines, regulatory requirements, drug development process and clinical monitoring procedures
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Clinical research organization (CRO) and relevant therapeutic experience preferred
  • Ability to embrace new technologies
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade
  • Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 25%)
Benefits
  • supportive and engaged line management
  • technical and therapeutic area training
  • peer recognition and total rewards program
  • Total Self culture allowing you to authentically be yourself
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementrisk mitigationresource strategiesperformance improvementstudy managementfinancial performancecontingency planningclinical monitoringdrug developmentGCP
Soft Skills
communicationpresentationinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillstime managementteam leadershipmentoringdelegationrelationship buildingfacilitation
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreePrince IIPMP