Executive Director Clinical Project Management

Company Description

This company is a mid-size CRO that specializes in preclinical and early development studies. This company is not therapeutically aligned, which allows for new and different experiences everyday. The organization is also known for a tight-knit company culture, work-life balance, and high retention rate. The base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $240,000.

Summary of Responsibilities

• Sets visions for strategies, operations, infrastructure, and technology advancement.
• Provides strong leadership and inspiration.
• Recruits, develops, and retains new candidates and current employees.
• Champions new process development and implementation.
• Leads the development and implementation of policies, standards, and process improvement initiatives.
• Prepare project bids, project plans, task lists, workflow plans, schedules, and performance metrics.
• Responsible for the evaluation of performance to budget to support pricing assumptions and pricing algorithms.
• Oversee quality control within the department.
• Ensure that complete and auditable documentation is maintained for departmental activities.
• Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation to influence decision making.
• Provide direction to Sales and Marketing on advertising and marketing presentations for bid proposals and client presentations.
• Assist with the development, review, and modification of controlled documents.
• Ensures productive collaborations between all functions to maximize efficiency.
• Identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction.
• Ensures that departmental budgets, schedules, and performance requirements are met.
• Participates in corporate development of relevant methods, techniques, and standards for projects, programs, and people.
• Works on critical problems across all functional areas of the business.
• Identifies potential issues for functional areas, as industry advances, and works out solutions with stakeholders.

Education, Qualifications, and Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a SCIENTIFIC FIELD REQUIRED.
• Excellent oral and written communication, organizational and planning skills
• Thoroughness and dealing with complexity
• Ability and desire to work in a team-oriented environment
• Willing and able to travel (30%)
• Preclinical exeprience required
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in clinical development setting in a pharmaceutical or clinical research organization
• Previous clinical project manager experience in conducting and managing Phase 1-4 clinical trials
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite