Senior Clinical Project Manager

POSITION TITLE: Senior Clinical Project Manager

DEPARTMENT: Ora Europe

LOCATION: Remote, UK, Spain or Italy

Ora Values the Daily Practice of …

Prioritizing Kindness * Operational Excellence * Cultivating Joy * Scientific Rigor

At Ora, we are building the future of ophthalmic clinical research. As the world’s leading full-service ophthalmic drug and device development firm, we guide our clients across all phases of clinical research to efficiently bring new products and therapies to market. Over the past forty years, our expert teams have helped earn more than fifty new product approvals. Today, our team continues to expand across the globe, with over 350 employees across the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

The Role:

Ora’s Senior Clinical Project Managers (Sr. CPM) are critical in driving clinical ophthalmic projects forward utilizing best practices in order to ensure budgets, timelines, and clinical trial requirements are being met on behalf of the sponsor. This role will work independently to manage cross functional project teams as well as overseeing other projects they are not directly managing, as a senior member of the clinical operations team, to provide support to more junior team members. Sr. CPM’s have active involvement in each assigned project in order to meet milestones, resolve issues and/ or conflicts in addition to frequent interactions with the study team including but not limited to clinical trial associates, monitoring, clinical research coordinators, investigators and senior management. They are responsible for creating project plans and provide weekly budget and progress reviews for each study in addition to preparing high-quality reports.

What You’ll Do:

• May manage department Clinical Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, Clinical Trial Associates and other supporting staff.
• Manages cross functional project teams derived from the groups within clinical development to deliver a high-quality clinical trial(s) in compliance with all regulations and SOPs.
• Works with functional areas on initiating, planning, executing, controlling, closing and resourcing clinical trial projects. The CPM acts as an operational nexus or focal point for interdepartmental and intradepartmental groups (e.g. stats, data management, safety, manufacturing, regulatory, vendors), coordinating these different groups in a matrix environment to drive and complete clinical programs.
• Reviews protocol, source documents and CRFs and tracks them to completion.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining project timelines for each project and uses these timelines to track and manage a project’s progress.
• Responsible for creating Project Plans (Roles and Responsibility Tables and Communication Plans) and weekly project budget and progress reviews for each study.
• Reviews study metrics for performance and quality with the team and management.
• Prepares high-quality reports (financial, project, etc.) for management on program status and issues.
• Ensures review of clinical electronic Trial Master File (eTMF) for completeness.
• Manages and coordinates all vendors involved in the clinical trials (e.g. central labs, IVRS, reading centers).
• May represent Ora at professional meetings or seminars.
• Participates in preparing new study budgets, proposal documents and participating in bid defenses.
• Active role in department and company-wide process improvement initiatives.
• Responsibilities may differ slightly from the above based on specific needs of the business.
• Clear and sustained demonstration of the Ora Clinical’s Values of prioritizing kindness, operational excellence, cultivating joy and scientific rigor.
• Travel of up to 15% is required (mainly domestic, overnight)