Director, Clinical Project Management (level dependent on experience)

Job Summary: The Director, Clinical Project Management provides leadership and guidance to direct reports and clinical operation's team members in managing multiple and/or global clinical research trials across all functional areas.

Fully utilizes trial knowledge and expertise to support and guide trial teams to successful trial execution.

Responsible for ensuring that Clinical Project Managers (CPM) assigned to or mentored by the Director delivers their projects, meeting the sponsor's requirements with attention to budget, timelines and quality.

The Director also serves as the high-level operational contact at the project level and works with leadership of Clinical Operations to provide insight on process improvements across the clinical groups and across all clinical studies.

Focus is on enhancement of cross-functional collaboration and organizational development to foster highly effective trial execution.

What You'll Do


* Plan, implement, facilitate and evaluate the full execution of assigned clinical trials; oversee management of multiple clinical trials from the planning phase to the analysis phase for delivery to client;


* May function in global lead role on assigned trials and participate in day to day operations and/or oversight of trial activities and deliverables


* Ensure the operational aspects of the functional areas comply with International Council for Harmonization (ICH) guidelines, Good Clinical Practices (GCP), applicable regulatory guidelines and trial procedures


* Ensure that assigned Clinical Project Managers (CPM) and/or Clinical Project Coordinators (CPC) coordinate the organization and implementation of a clinical trial and manages the activities between all functional areas and the client


* Serve as primary senior interface on the project with executive management at CTI and the sponsor; provide effective client management to prevent and mitigate trial issues; escalate identified trial, CPM or CTI issues to executive management as needed; actively participate in resolution activities


* Oversee preparation of all study plans and project timelines and monitor against project progress; ensure project activity compliance with Plan(s); suggest and implement alternative solutions to problems with study timelines, schedules, resources, budgets, etc.

Take corrective action where necessary


* Assess resource needs within team, with other CPM directors, Executive Director and other functional area managers to establish appropriate project team; monitor ongoing resource needs for project


* Ensure that appropriate project management tools are used to track and report project progress and metrics; ensure timely entry of project information by all team members throughout the life of the project


* Ensure training of assigned project teams; participate in staff training for his/her projects or other projects, dependent upon expertise


* Oversee the management of budgeted hours by the CPM...