Project Manager I EDS

Project Manager I EDS- BIOANALYTICAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED- Remote

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development

At ICON, it’s our people that set us apart. Our diverse teams enable us to become a better partner to our customers and help us to fulfil our mission to advance and improve patients’ lives.

Our ‘Own It’ culture is driven by four key values that bring us together as individuals and set us apart as an organisation: Accountability & Delivery, Collaboration, Partnership and Integrity. We want to be the Clinical Research Organisation that delivers excellence to our clients and to patients at every touch-point. In short, to be the partner of choice in drug development.

That’s our vision. We’re driven by it. And we need talented people who share it.
If you’re as driven as we are, join us. You’ll be working in a dynamic and supportive environment, with some of the brightest and the friendliest people in the sector, and you’ll be helping shape an industry.

Overview:

The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for owning and achieving interim and final contractual deliverables for assigned projects/programs, according to time, quality/scope and cost constraints. The PM manages the execution of day-to-day work results for projects. The PM leads and directs cross-functional teams, understands and manages client expectations/needs to achieve client satisfaction and ensures adequate internal and external communication of information. The PM proactively identifies, resolves/mitigates and escalates risks and/or issues. The PM adheres to ICH/GCP guidelines, local laws and regulations, and ICON standard procedures and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Acts as primary liaison with client and lead contact for project matters.

• Understands/manages/satisfies client contractual, organizational and relationship needs/expectations.

• Oversees all start-up activities to ensure timely regulatory approval and study start.

• Provides regular reporting on project metrics, status of deliverables and risks/issues with the associated management plan to client.

• Chairs and leads customer meetings and documents meeting outcomes.

• Leads and directs cross-functional team leaders and third parties/vendors with some supervision and support.

• Oversees, coordinates and reviews work produced by project team members per the agreed upon scope of work.

• Guides and supports team leads in project-specific prioritizing, trouble-shooting and contingency planning.

• Delegates whilst retaining ownership. Communicates project specific priorities to project team and provides guidance/mentoring as needed.

• Ensures up-to-date planning information is available to project team and rest of operational organization

• Chairs internal project team meetings and documents meeting outcomes. Liaises with functional leads/managers to optimize performance and utilization of project team members.

• Provides feedback on project team member’s performance to respective line-managers Manages project contractual deliverables.

• Monitors and ensures adherence to the contractual agreement (time, quality/scope, and cost deliverables).

• Proactively identifies and evaluates alternative solutions to resolve/mitigate and escalate risks and/or issues as appropriate.

• Manages project costs: Proactively and timely identifies, for assigned projects, ensuring out of scope activities are approved up front via a contract modification.

• Identifies potential or actual unrecoverable effort and provides analysis and mitigation/resolution plan for senior management’s approval.

• Ensures control of financial risk to ICON. In cooperation with the project analyst, applies efficient management of project pass-through costs and investigator payments for external non-ICON sites to ensure all such costs are recovered in a timely manner, and in advance where ever possible.

• Leads presentation of financial reviews and is accountable for action item follow up.

• Ensures that the progress of a clinical trial is conducted and complies in accordance with the protocol, ICON’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ICH/GCP and applicable regulatory requirements at the project level

Benefits of Working in ICON:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

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