Associate Director/Director, Clinical Project Management – Psychiatry
When you work for Quintiles you work for the world's leading Pharmaceutical Services Company. We offer product development and commercialisation services to the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Devices industries. Our leading-edge capabilities provide healthcare companies with the potential to bring new medicines/devices through development and registration to the market place more quickly, with supporting medical and drug data that will significantly advance the cost effectiveness and quality of healthcare provision. Of the world's top 30 best-selling drugs, Quintiles has helped to develop or commercialise every single one.
We are currently recruiting for a Director / Associate Director within Psychiatry Clinical Project Management. This is a line management role and responsibilities include:
- Manage staff in accordance with organization's policies and applicable regulations. Responsibilities include planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance and guiding professional development; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing employee relations issues and resolving problems. Approve actions on human resources matters
- Actively provide guidance and review of the scope of work, objectives, timelines, quality of deliverables, and other clinical project management activities for studies and programs.
- Coach and mentor employees around project planning, project review, risk management and problem solving to ensure global alignment of work practices across the team through the adoption and use of all process and technology tools and improvements by employees.
- Work with the clinical project managers to ensure that project budget(s) meet financial and company goals (realization targets), with a focus on proactively ensuring adherence to change control processes.
- Obtain and provide regular feedback to employees from other clinical project team members and key stakeholders to assist in personal and professional development. May attend project team meeting and site visits in order to support development needs. Identify skill and competency gaps at the individual level and work to craft appropriate development plans.
- Proactively manage risks linked to resourcing, project and/or individual needs with other management and leadership team members to manage study issues and obstacles.
- Act as a key relationship manager for assigned clients; recommend courses of action regarding client management issues; ensure that plans are implemented following approval by senior management.
- Working with individual staff to identify any quality issues within the study and coaching on resolution of issues, including implementation of corrective action plans and escalation.
- May act as point of contact or oversight for specific customers or programs.
- Provide technical expertise and clinical project management experience to project management and training and process improvement efforts.
- Serve as a project management liaison with other groups within Quintiles.
- Provide consultation to clients on drug development process, strategy, and plans as needed.
- Participate in function and/or corporate initiatives, special project assignments, and as a client liaison or departmental cross-functional liaison.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- In depth knowledge of, and skill in applying, applicable clinical research regulatory requirements; i.e., Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including good command of English language
- Excellent organizational and problem solving skills
- Effective team-management skills
- Proven ability to work through others to deliver results to the appropriate quality and timeline metrics
- Effective mentoring and training skills
- Ability to balance operational and strategic priorities
- Excellent customer service skills
- Good judgment and decision making skills
- Good understanding of other Quintiles functions and their inter- relationship with Clinical Project Management
- Strong software and computer skills, including MS Office applications
- In depth technical and/or therapeutic expertise and knowledge of study, project and drug development processes
- Knowledge of project financial tracking and accounting methods and skill in applying them
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients.
MINIMUM REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field and extensive clinical research experience including leadership experience, including multi-regional and global focus; or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Extensive use of keyboard requiring repetitive motion of fingers.
- Extensive use of telephone and face-to-face communication requiring accurate perception of speech.
- Regular sitting for extended periods of time.
- May require occasional travel.
At Quintiles we value individuality, fresh ideas, and the contribution that our employees make to our success. In return we offer career opportunities providing flexibility and growth across the organisation, covering multiple locations to suite your lifestyle requirements at this time, a competitive salary and a fantastic benefits package.
If you want to make a difference in global healthcare, Quintiles is the place for you. It's work worth doing.
