Senior Director, Project Management - Health & Life Sciences (Remote, US-based only)

Who We Are

Escalent is an award-winning data analytics and advisory firm that helps clients understand human and market behaviors to navigate disruption. As catalysts of progress for more than 40 years, our strategies guide the world’s leading brands. We accelerate growth by creating a seamless flow between primary, secondary, syndicated, and internal business data, providing consulting and advisory services from insights through implementation. Based on a profound understanding of what drives human beings and markets, we identify actions that build brands, enhance customer experiences, inspire product innovation and boost business productivity. We listen, learn, question, discover, innovate, and deliver—for each other and our clients—to make the world work better for people.

Role Overview

The Senior Director, Project Management leads the Project Management functions of primary market research and operations for Escalent Global Health & Life Sciences, providing operational direction for a department that includes multiple project management teams. This US-based role is accountable for ensuring that client work across the department and geographic regions is delivered consistently on time, at a high level of quality, and in alignment with agreed scope, budget, process, and financial expectations. The Senior Director is also expected to lead and manage individual projects, as needed, as well as support the commercial process including proposal cost estimating and contracting.

As a Senior Director-level leader, this position owns the short- to mid-term execution of the Project Management functional strategy, typically over a one- to three-year horizon. The Senior Director translates business, client, and functional priorities into operating plans, staffing and resource approaches, process expectations, and performance goals for the department.

The Senior Director contributes to client satisfaction, retention, operational discipline, and financial performance by leading through Managers and/or Team Leaders, influencing cross-functional partners, and communicating effectively with executive leadership. Problems faced are often complex and require extensive investigation, analysis, stakeholder alignment, and sound decision-making

The Salary Range for this position is $120,000 - $135,000. If this is not the right level for you, please check out our other postings. If this is not the right level for you, please check out our other postings. For this remote position, must be based in the United States.

Key Responsibilities

Department Leadership & Functional Strategy

• Own the short- to mid-term execution of the Project Management functional strategy for Escalent Health & Life Sciences, translating business priorities into operational plans, goals, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide operational direction for a global department that includes multiple project management teams led by Managers and/or Team Leaders.
• Set department-level goals, objectives, operating expectations, and performance measures to support project delivery, quality, financial stewardship, client service, and team development.
• Lead, coach, and develop Managers and/or Team Leaders, ensuring they are equipped to guide their teams, manage priorities, address performance needs, and build project management capability.
• Ensure Project Management policies, practices, procedures, compliance expectations, pharmacovigilance, including audit readiness, and quality standards are understood, adopted, and consistently followed by direct reports, team members, vendors, clients, and stakeholders.

Project, Client & Executive Leadership

• Oversee end-to-end Global Primary Research Health & Life Sciences project delivery across multiple teams and client engagements, ensuring effective project kickoff, timeline planning, scope management, budget monitoring, resource coordination, vendor management, and milestone/client communications.
• Partner with leaders across Insights & Consulting, Sales & Strategic Growth, Operations, Finance, and Centers of Excellence to support accurate bids, cost estimates, resource plans, delivery approaches, and business priorities.
• Serve as a senior project management leader who ensures the function “keeps the trains on schedule,” with department-level oversight of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk.
• Communicate and influence executive leadership on project delivery priorities, operational risks, resource needs, process improvements, and recommended practices or approaches.
• Influence clients, colleagues, vendors, Managers, Team Leaders, and senior stakeholders to align around effective