Senior Clinical Project Manager

Salary Range: 84000 to 140500 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Project Management

• Manage the planning, execution, progress, and completion of assigned clinical research projects.
• Working with functional experts ensure all project activities comply with applicable regulations, guidelines, and corporate policies.
• Maintain operational, financial, and regulatory integrity and accountability.
• Develop and/or participate in the development of project communications, training, regulatory submissions and/or audits and selection of third-party vendors as required.
• Define and manage project resource needs and establish contingency plans for key resources.
• Review costs and time spent on project on a regular basis to ensure they are in line with the scope of work.
• Implement measures to meet financial performance targets for the assigned clinical projects as required.

Documents and Tools

• Manage a cross-functional team, which can include unit peers and/or subordinates, and subcontractors to ensure the appropriate creation, delivery, maintenance and disposal of all related data, documents, equipment, and tools, including protocols, SOPs, informed consent forms, case report forms and instructions.
• Prepare investigator updates and other project related reports as required to support the proper conduct and execution throughout the life cycle of assigned projects.

Project Team Performance

• Identify, assign, and monitor the completion of interdisciplinary project tasks.
• Promote effective teamwork among project team members, ensure effective conflict resolution.
• Initiate improvements to enhance the efficiency and the quality of the work performed on assigned projects.
• Ensure that staff allocated to assigned project adheres to professional standards and SOPs established for clinical research.
• Lead motivate and coordinate teams and mentor/coach team members as appropriate.
• Delegate effectively and prioritize own and project team members workload.

Client/Sponsor Support

• As the project lead, will act as primary liaison throughout the project life cycle ensuring client/sponsor expectations appropriately managed; addressing and resolving queries/issues, planning and executing all project meetings, assisting with site and patient recruitment strategies and materials, assisting with the development of stakeholder training and by regularly providing sponsor/client with project status and update reports.
• Manage project budget and initiate, review and negotiate changes to study budgets with sponsor.

Service/Functional Therapeutic Area Expert

• Act as a peer mentor, delivering new CPM orientation, provide peer training, coaching and/or ongoing advice on project and sponsor related issues to peers and subordinates, contribute to performance evaluation process and act as first point of escalation for sponsors and sites on pre-assigned projects.
• Assist with development, preparation and/or testing of project proposals, bid defenses, budgets, new product/service template development as required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree and 4-6 years of experience in Clinical Project Management
• PMP certification or in progress (preferred)
• The successful candidate must exhibit the following skills: self-motivation with strong communication skills and a commitment to achieving positive results.
• Strong attention to detail and keenness to understand the importance of building collaborative relationships to achieve results.
• Ability to engage in continuous learning and self-development.
• Ability to continually foster teamwork.

Working Conditions

• Home-based
• Occasional travel (domestic & international)