Job Title: Safety Project Leadership Director
About the Role:
Lifecycle safety project management involves managing the delivery of lifecycle safety from trial initiation to closeout. This includes ensuring quality deliverables are presented on time and within budget, coordinating work streams and efforts of cross-functional project teams, and monitoring the use of consistent tools and methodologies.
Main Responsibilities:
* Manage the delivery of lifecycle safety from trial initiation to closeout.
* Coordinate work streams and efforts of cross-functional project teams.
* Identify and evaluate potential project risks and develop mitigation plans.
* Collaborate with global management team to develop and implement strategic initiatives and ensure global consistency.
* Work with Sales and Proposals to ensure rapid, seamless, tailored responses to opportunities and drive business growth by improving customer loyalty through enhanced customer relations, service delivery excellence, and excellent customer communication.
* Manage scope and budget review and finalization with sponsors, ensuring program financial targets are met.
* Accountable for oversight of Lifecycle Safety performance for projects/programs on assigned accounts.
* Prepare, present, and respond in bid defense meetings and discussions, and input into more complex requests for information (RFIs) or requests for proposal (RFPs).
Requirements:
* Bachelor's Degree in Health Science or other directly related field.
* 8 years' Clinical Research experience in a Contract Research Organization or Pharmaceutical company combining 5 years of Lifecycle Safety experience.
* In-depth knowledge and understanding of Lifecycle Safety service lines.
* Strong business acumen; financial management and budgeting skills.
* Strong project management; strategic planning; delegation and organisational skills.
* Proven ability to work on multiple projects and manage competing priorities.
* Strong leadership, motivational and influencing skills.
* Strong customer focus.
* Demonstrates financial awareness.
* Promotes good practices to manage financial performance.
* Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
* Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, direct reports, managers, and customers at a senior level.
* Autonomous independent decision-making; problem solving and judgment skills.
* Ability to achieve results through communication, facilitation, negotiations in a matrix service delivery environment with shared responsibilities.
* Strong ownership skills: take initiative and move forward with limited guidance.