Title::: Project Manager
Location: Princeton, NJ (remote start)
Position:::Contract
Position Description
Client is seeking a seasoned project managers to join our growing team supporting life
science clients through end to end solution offerings and professional services.. The
successful candidate must be able to work in a cross-functional environment and interact
with representatives from CLIENT, and our end-clients. This project manager will work at
various CLIENT/ clients consulting and executing various life science business and IT initiatives
from road map assessment architecture best practice phase implementations, and go live
Your future duties and responsibilities
The Innovative Trials Model is one of the initiatives in the Growth Theme 2 (GT2) program,
and includes the following two specific areas of work:
1. Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) –
- Objective: Increase patient recruitment and engagement in clinical trials by enabling
virtual and hybrid clinical trial models, including piloting other DCT components and scaling
wearables/sensors. Traditional clinical trials require patients to participate at physical sites,
where there is the opportunity to obtain a more accurate representation of market
composition and higher frequency of data collection. This initiative will provide opportunity
for remote conduct of clinical trials through Remote Consent, Telemedicine, Patient-reported
outcomes (diaries, questionnaires, etc. completed in-home).
- Approach: Offer new, innovative virtual options that enable continuous monitoring and
attract a more representative patient sample by standing up a digital platform for
decentralized clinical trials with eConsent, ePRO/COA, Telemedicine, Telehealth, etc., as
applicable, and implementing integrations with client systems, as needed.
- Outcomes:
Increased patient convenience, resulting in increased participation and compliance
Less patient risk with lower in-person contact (e.g. COVID-19)
Lowered burden on clinical trial sites
Larger patient population in Clinical Trials
2. Digitally Accelerated Clinical Trials (DACT) –
- Objective: Accelerate digitization of clinical trials in order to increase data availability,
reduce on-enrolling sites, and maintain patient retention. A prototype is planned for June
through August.
- Approach: Expand the site-network-as-a-service model to 5 additional studies, which will
lead to more quickly evaluating the value and applicability of this model more broadly.
- Outcomes:
Augment patient trial data with longitudinal EMR data (leading to deeper patient insights for
targeted indications or patients)
Significantly accelerate study start-up timelines and consequently reduce trial conduct
costs.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
This Senior Project Manager will be responsible for leading the effort to develop a Business
Case for the Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) initiative and managing a series of
experiments or prototypes to evaluate several vendor solutions in support of the Digitally
Accelerated Clinical Trials (DACT) initiative
• Ensure each project team has detailed project plan, scope, milestones, tasks, deliverables
that align to the overall program
• Maintain strategic alignment of projects by analyzing status and reviewing with
management decision makers on a weekly basis
• Logging all project accomplishments, upcoming events, risks, actions decisions and risks
and holding individuals accountable for open entries
• Running cross tower project team meetings with multiple vendors involved
• Organizing and leading tower teams to ensure deliverables and timelines are met per
program objectives/timelines
• Ensuring required project documentation is created, reviewed, approved, and stored in the
appropriate central project repository
• Solid understanding on of project financials :Tracking spend versus budget and re-
forecasting project expenditures across explicit categories
• Proactively raising key issues/risks to the IT PMO Lead, program stakeholders and
Steering Committee
• Ensure that assigned projects are conducted in compliance with all department standards,
policies, and guidelines
• Continually identify, prioritize and mitigate risks of the overall program and individual
workstreams
Perform team management, driving motivation, collaboration and execution
• Experience of 7-10+ years managing IT/Business projects in biotech and/or
pharmaceutical industry
• PMI PMP certification a must, with one or more additional certifications in Agile highly
desired
• Clinical & R&D Background project management experience lesioning with functional or
technology stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including capacity to comfortably interface
with senior leaders, including executive staff
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to influence
• Strong organizational skills and multi-tasking capability, ability to function in a highly
complex matrix organization
Skill Set Years of Experience Proficiency Level
Project Management 10+ Expert
Clinical and or Digital 5+ Expert
Pharma 5+ Expert
Minimum Education Required: Bachelors Degree
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Ravi Kumar