Ssu Project Delivery Manager

**SSU Project Delivery Manager** **-** **(**22003627**)**

**Description**
**Site Start-Up Project Delivery Manager**

Come discover what our 25,000+ employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We’re a growing and evolving biopharmaceutical industry leader, which means you’ll have endless opportunities to work with experts around the world and build the career you’ve dreamed of.
As a part of the Syneos Health team, you’ll help us deliver results for a rewarding reason - we improve patients’ lives around the world. Because to us, a patient isn’t just a number, they’re our family, friends, and neighbors.

**Why Syneos Health**:

- #SyneosHealthLife means we’re committed to our Total Self culture - where everyone can authentically be themselves. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we know every person’s unique contributions make a difference.
- We believe our success is a direct result of the people who are driving it - you We value your dedication to care for our customers and patients, so we want to focus on taking care of you. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits program encompassing your total health - physical, mental and financial.
- We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives - we’re able to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.

**Job responsibilities**:

- Collaborates with major functional area leads (SSU Country Managers, Project Management, and Clinical Management) to identify and evaluate fundamental issues pertaining to Site Start-Up, project regulatory pathway, successful patient enrollment, interpret data on complex issues, make good business decisions, and ensure solutions are implemented. Ensures all project deliverables meet the internal and customers’ expectations as per contracted deliverables, providing accurate projections, reports and updates, and ongoing risk assessments.
- Develops and maintains strategic relationships with customers in alignment with their assigned projects. May collaborate with business leads for business development, alliance management, contracts and proposals development, project management, and clinical management to achieve project goals. Ensures that individual project targets and client needs are met, services are provided with the highest quality standards, and policies and procedures are followed. Contributes to change initiatives across and within the SSU department.
- Provides oversight of all project SSU deliverables which encompasses all activities from site selection through site activation ready.
- Assumes accountability on SSU deliverables including, but not limited to:

- Start-up regulatory activities (submissions, oversight of communication to competent authorities/ethics committees, import/export licenses, study maintenance submissions);
- Oversight of delivery of executed clinical trial agreements and investigator budgets with investigator sites
- Establishing Essential document collection leading to site activation;
- Overall SSU timelines to site activation.
- Develops plans in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures and/or sponsor-scoped process. Complies with all controlled document requirements and other requirements to ensure quality deliverables.
- Develops and manages integrated site start-up timelines and reports weekly progress including plans to address potential timing risks/gaps.
- Prepares and presents overall SSU strategy and status at client meetings and communicates outcomes to project team.
- Reviews the project SSU budget with the functional leads, project PM, and the SSU Business Unit Controller against project milestones and budget to ensure project profitability. Takes corrective measures where necessary to keep project in line with budget and gross profit expectations.
- Uses professionally recognized tools for planning and management of scope, timeline, resources, and ensures that minimum hours are used for tasks. If out-of-scope work is requested, notifies the project PM and her/his SSU manager and track out of scope until assigned to back log.
- Assist in development of master Patient Information Sheet (PIS) /Informed Consent Form (ICF) in collaboration with the PM and medical department.
- Accountable for the timely follow-up for Ethics Committee/Competent Authority enquiries or objections in collaboration with the country SSU Specialists. Meets or exceeds the planned submission/approval timelines; if forecasted timelines are not reached or if any potential issue is identified, solves or escalates the problem quickly. In parallel with project deliverables, identifies best practices and initiates/participates in process improvement initiatives in conjunction with the global SSU leadership plan.
- Accountable for the negotiation and execution of clinical trial agreements and budgets i