Project Manager, Central Labs

🕒 August 7

🐎 Kentucky – Remote

🐎 Kentucky – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Lead and coordinate central laboratory activities across clinical trial programs • Monitor and manage all aspects of designated clinical trial protocols in Global Central Labs • Ensure overall project performance and client satisfaction throughout assigned clinical trials • Provide internal consulting on project management issues • Identify opportunities for process and efficiency improvement • Act as chief liaison to major sponsors and PPD operational personnel • Manage large study programs • Prepare and maintain process documents • Mentor Project Managers • Oversee and coordinate study initiation • Review, interpret, translate, and program study protocols into complete and accurate databases • Communicate with internal departments and external vendors to ensure project requirements are understood and followed • Facilitate technical and clinical laboratory information flow among investigational sites, sponsors, and non-technical stakeholders • Prepare study specification documents and maintain the study master file with version controls for specifications, budgets, and contracts • Ensure sponsor authorization and sign-off on current documents and confirm contracts exist before delivering services • Ensure compliance with FDA, Good Clinical Practice, PPD SOPs, personnel policies, exposure-control requirements, IATA, and biological-specimen transport regulations • Consult internal groups on procedural and budgetary matters and protocol amendments • Obtain cross-functional commitment to close gaps and address issues • Serve as liaison between sponsors and PPD internal departments throughout all study phases • Educate investigator sites through protocol-specific laboratory-procedure presentations and demonstrations • Manage day-to-day clinical trial activities, resolve issues, and answer queries • Consult with IT and data management teams on design, validation, and implementation of project-management software and functionalities • Support RFP feasibility assessments with Business Development and Finance • Draft proposal responses • Guide and support Project Managers and Set-up Administrators • Train and mentor junior and newly assigned Project Managers • Identify development and efficiency opportunities • Author, review, revise, and implement procedural documents • Serve as backup for the Associate Director PM when needed

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification • 2+ years of comparable experience, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience • Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills • Superior time management, planning, and organizational skills • Competence with computers and enterprise applications, including office productivity tools • Ability to program the IT system according to protocol requirements • Proven analytical skills • Demonstrated compliance with procedures and policies • Ability to perform multiple tasks effectively in a stressful environment • Extensive knowledge and experience in Project Management in a Global Central Lab environment • Strong client relationship management skills • Ability to work effectively with multi-level teams • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship • Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, including drug screening • Ability to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people • Ability to work upright and stationary for typical working hours • Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency • Ability to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities • May require travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement • Opportunity to collaborate with industry-leading experts • Contribution to groundbreaking clinical research • Growth within an environment valuing innovation, accountability, and continuous development • Accessibility services and accommodations for job seekers with disabilities