Associate Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Project Planning & Delivery 

• Support development and maintenance of project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.

• Coordinate biometrics activities across Biostatistics, Statistical Programming, and Data Management.

• Track study progress against contracted scope, timelines, and key milestones.

• Follow up with functional leads and team members regarding deliverables, dependencies, and outstanding actions.

• Support database lock, analysis, reporting, and other critical biometrics milestones.

• Assist with planning and coordination of multiple studies or workstreams. 

Client & Team Communication

• Participate in client and internal project meetings.

• Prepare meeting agendas, status updates, meeting minutes, and action-item trackers.

• Facilitate routine project meetings as experience develops.

• Maintain clear communication among clients, functional leads, and project team members.

• Escalate potential timeline, scope, resource, or quality issues to the appropriate PM or functional leadership.

Risk & Issue Management

• Maintain project risk, issue, decision, and action logs.

• Identify emerging risks related to timelines, dependencies, resources, scope, and deliverables.

• Support development and tracking of mitigation and recovery plans.

• Proactively communicate potential delays and dependencies to the project team. 

Scope & Financial Management

• Support tracking of project budgets, hours, milestones, and financial performance.

• Monitor work performed against the contracted scope of work.

• Identify potential out-of-scope activities and communicate them to the Project Manager.

• Assist with preparation of change-order information, forecasts, and project financial updates. 

Quality & Compliance

• Support delivery of projects in accordance with applicable SOPs, client requirements, contracts, and quality standards.

• Ensure project documentation and trackers are accurate, current, and appropriately maintained.

• Work with functional teams to support timely resolution of project-level quality issues.

• Support inspection- and audit-readiness activities as required. 

Skills and Qualifications:

Requires a bachelor’s degree or higher in life sciences. MBA or PMP is preferred.

• 0-2 years of relevant experience in Pharma/CRO industry. Basic understanding of the clinical drug-development process and clinical trials.