Sr Project Manager - Early Phase Clinical Trial Management Team

Senior Project Manager/Lead (Delivery)

Position Overview

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer by providing the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. Our PPD® clinical research services direct, coordinate, and manage the technical and operational aspects of projects, securing the successful completion of clinical trials.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager/Lead in our Early Development Services Team for the North America region. This role is remote-based and is accountable for the overall delivery of the project (quality, time, cost) on behalf of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary contact and lead between the sponsor and the organization at the project level.
• On projects where the scope requires, ensures clear delineation in responsibilities and communication pathways for secondary project leads (e.g., lead in a specific region, lead for a specific vendor(s) or subset of delivery).
• Drives and owns the overall delivery of the cross-functional project (time, cost, quality).
• Ensures financial stewardship at a project level by demonstrating an intimate understanding of the contract, resource alignment to budget, management of Out of Scope activity, driving the Con Mod process/negotiations, and team execution to timelines.
• Establishes, communicates, and manages customer expectations to achieve optimal delivery during the project.
• Drives Risk Identification and Issue Resolution at the project level (RBQM/RESOLVE).
• Ensures project team compliance with organization policies, SOPs, ICH-GCP, regulatory, and project-specific requirements.
• Collaborates with functional area leads to identify and evaluate fundamental issues on the project and to ensure that solutions are implemented.

Requirements

• Previous demonstrated Project Management experience in Early Phase Clinical Trials within a CRO or Pharmaceutical company is required to be considered.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic/vocational qualification.
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 8+ years).
• 5+ years of management responsibility.
• Proven leadership skills.

Employment Type

• Full time

Work Schedule

• Other

Environmental Conditions

• Office

Company Information

Thermo Fisher Scientific's PPD clinical research portfolio spans laboratory, digital, and decentralized clinical trial services, with clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries. We are committed to improving health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

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