Clinical Project Manager

The Senior Clinical Project Manager reports to the Clinical Operations Manager and is responsible to manage the local and international projects in compliance with contractual requirements, timelines, standard operating procedures and relevant regulations and legislations. He/she leads the internal study team allocated on his/her projects ensuring that all deliverables meet agreed expectations and milestones. Collaborates with major functional areas to identify and evaluate potential issues on the project and ensures the implementation of timely solutions. Proactively manages project level operational aspects including management of trial timeline, budget, and vendors. Forecasts units/hours/generic resources for monitoring activities and analyzes forecasted and worked activities to ensure adherence to contract and budget identifying/escalating any out of scope. Proactively manages and coordinates the overall project activities ensuring that the deliverable meet contractual requirements, timelines, and quality standard; Leads the clinical project team and the various study team meetings; Organizes and prepares kick-of meeting, periodic meeting with Sponsor, Investigators’ meeting and internal project meetings ensuring that meeting minutes are appropriately filed in the Trial Master File; Prepares feasibility questionnaires and ensures that the site feasibility and qualification process for identification of qualified investigational sites is conducted as per study/investigation requirements and within timelines; Prepares the project plans, study/investigation specific procedure and tools; Collaborates effectively with the Regulatory and Submission team to speed up the regulatory process and site contract negotiation; Ensures that the monitoring team is trained on study/investigation specific procedures and aspects; Ensures that the enrolment curve is on-track and take actions in case of under-performance; Ensures that the monitoring activities are conducted as per monitoring plan requirements; Reviews and approves site/remote reports; Manages the administrative aspects of studies/investigations, including study/investigation budget and interact with the Finance and Administrative Unit in case of extra-budgets are needed; Interacts with the Vendor Manager in evaluating vendors services based on study/investigation requirements; Manages the study/investigation vendors and monitor the quality of vendor deliverables, addresses quality issues with the appropriate team member and identifies opportunities to improve the execution of the activities; Reviews vendor invoices and ensures that hospital fees are paid as per contractual requirements; Ensures all project level study/investigation documentation is filed in the TMF in accordance with company SOPs/all regulatory requirements and provides oversight to the study/investigation team regarding TMF filing, maintenance and archival procedures; Ensures that the site TMFs are checked by the monitoring team according to OPIS and/or Sponsor procedures; Provides support with proposal development and participates in client presentations and/or bid defense meetings, as required; Performs co-monitoring visits with CRAs, if necessary; Can conduct Feasibility, Pre-study Visit, Site Initiation Visit, Monitoring Visit or Close out visit as necessary (e.g., back-up or directly allocated to the site), if he/she is compliant with local minimum requirements for monitoring; Collaborates to on-boarding of new associates and act as a mentor of junior staff. Performs and completes on time all required trainings (training on OPIS and/or Sponsor SOPs, all other applicable trainings) by the assigned due date. Ensures compliance of his/her study team on completing in due time all required assigned study-specific trainings; At least 7 years of experience as Clinical Project Manager Excellent knowledge of ICH-GCP, ISO1455 and techniques for the monitoring of clinical trials Able to coordinate all the activities related to the management of local and international projects, monitoring of clinical studies/clinical investigations, guaranteeing the security of information Able to work independently under the supervision of the Clinical Operations Manager Excellent knowledge of English language Founded in 1998 in Italy and now operating at an international level, OPIS is a full-service science driven biotech focused CRO providing premium trial management for multi-country clinical trials, including state-of-the-art information technology solutions and innovative approaches to the increasing complexity and variety of current projects. OPIS added value lies in its highly specialized professionals who can assist their clients using their deep know-how and experience to guarantee a top-quality level of Clinical Trial Management and ability to operate in a wide range of fields (medical writing, scientific and statistical consultancy for trial design, regulatory activities, pharmacovigilance, etc.) Please read the information notice on the processing of personal data in the candidates information section of  our company website.