Senior Clinical Project Manager; Remote

Overview

Everest Clinical Research (“Everest”) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today. Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence.

Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest’s headquarters are located in Markham Ontario, Canada with additional locations in:
Bridgewater, New Jersey;
Shanghai, China;
Taipei, Taiwan; and multiple offices in Europe. Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients’ needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success. Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength…that’s us…that’s Everest.

To drive continued success in this exciting clinical research field, we are seeking committed, skilled, and customer-focused individuals to join our winning team as a Senior Project Manager for our Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in the USA or Canada in accordance with our Work from Home policy.

• Assure the fulsome and accurate transfer of contracts from initial project proposal to project mobilization, through to project completion and end-to-end financial reconciliation.
• Manage projects from initiation through closure for full scope regional and global projects, with activities focused on site selection, study start-up (including all systems and plan development), clinical operations, statistics and statistical programming, data management, subject randomization and drug supply management (IWRS), administration of data monitoring and/or adjudication committees, regulatory submissions, vendor management, and medical/scientific writing.
• Facilitate the efforts of functional area directors and managers in project planning, identification of tasks and deliverables, and assessment of resource needs and utilization.
• Perform project progress tracking for responsible projects using project planning and tracking methods, tools, and software. Provide monthly project progress status reports for individual ongoing projects.
• Check and ensure that responsible projects carried out at Everest will have a properly tracked and periodically reported project plan, as required by the established SOPs and Working Instructions.
• Prepare project status reports and maintain accurate and current details. Present project status to internal and external stakeholders inclusive of comprehensive risk identification and sound mitigations.
• Conduct responsible project progress status meetings with individual project teams periodically, with focuses and close attention to the projects that require close follow-up or immediate actions.
• Through periodic review meetings, identify issues such as lack of planning, lack of resources, poor team performance, or other external factors negatively impacting the ongoing projects and bring them to the attention of the functional area directors and managers. Work with the functional area directors and managers to jointly ensure smooth project start-up, continuation, and successful completion.
• Function as a meeting facilitator for the meetings involving various internal and external participants.
• Act as the project management lead interfacing with clients to drive project delivery, communication, problem solving, and issue management; convey scope and resource requirements, financial and contracting statuses, and other project management purposes. Seek Sponsor approval for scope changes, assigned resources, and project decisions when appropriate.
• Gain a clear understanding of the contracted scope of work, and track and initiate development and completion…