Senior Director, Clinical Project Management – Centre of Excellence

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🌐 United States, Canada, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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ICON plc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

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Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ICON plc is a global provider of clinical, consulting, and commercial services across various sectors in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They offer a wide range of clinical solutions, including decentralised clinical trials, cardiac safety solutions, early clinical laboratories, and medical imaging. ICON also provides technology solutions that support drug development from early phases to post-marketing. Their therapeutic expertise spans cardiovascular, oncology, internal medicine, and more, with a strong focus on transformative therapies like cell and gene therapies and biosimilars. ICON is recognized as a leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO), regularly providing thought leadership and contributing to industry publications and events. Their services are tailored to optimize clinical trials, offer regulatory intelligence, and deliver real-world evidence through robust data analysis and patient-centric solutions.

📋 Description

• Lead the strategy, operating model, charter and roadmap for ICON’s federated Project Management Centre of Excellence • Establish and govern enterprise project-management standards, methodologies, processes, templates, systems and certification requirements for clinical trial delivery • Design and own a role-based competency framework, structured onboarding journey and continuous-learning architecture • Build, train and certify a distributed network of functional champions and subject-matter experts • Standardise study intake and outtake processes and improve study start-up, site activation, closeout, quality and cycle-time performance • Establish governance, adoption measures, scorecards and accountability mechanisms across functions, divisions and geographies • Partner with Quality and Oversight, Governance & Oversight, Data Analytics, Business Transformation, and Digital and AI teams • Engage senior executives and delivery leaders to position project-management capability as a driver of quality, operational performance, sponsor experience and business growth • Build, lead and develop a high-performing central team with accountability for resource planning, priorities and stakeholder management

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive global clinical trial delivery experience across the full study lifecycle, including start-up, conduct and closeout, with personal accountability for scope, timelines, financials, risk, resources, vendors, sponsors and quality • Significant senior leadership experience within project management, a PMO or comparable enterprise capability function in a global, matrixed clinical development or CRO environment • Proven experience designing and owning a role-based competency framework and structured onboarding and continuous-learning pathway for clinical project-leadership roles, with demonstrated adoption and measurable impact • Demonstrated success establishing enterprise project-management standards across functions outside your direct line authority, including governance, decision rights and accountability mechanisms • Experience building and leading a distributed capability network, such as certified champions, subject-matter experts or train-the-trainer communities • Strong working knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial regulatory and quality requirements, inspection readiness and CAPA • Experience establishing a Project Management Centre of Excellence or leading a significant operating-model transformation • Experience using learning platforms, analytics, digital or AI-enabled solutions to scale capability and measure effectiveness • Relevant credentials such as PMP, PgMP, Prosci or continuous-improvement qualifications are an advantage • Proven experience using process-engineering principles to design and embed standardised, scalable project-management processes • Live in Eastern US or Midwest US, Canada, or Ireland and able to travel 10% • Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, project management or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience • Legal right to work in the country where the role is based

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

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