Clinical Research Project Manager

Pfizer Worldwide Medical and Safety colleagues play a key role in connecting evidenced based, medical decision support with colleagues and stakeholders to enable better health and treatment outcomes. Whether you are creating framework necessary to ensure our evidence is scientifically sound, providing unbiased, medically necessary expertise or investigating how to close gaps in data, our mission is simple. Empower healthcare decisions regarding the safe and appropriate use of medicines for patients.

What You Will Achieve

You will be part of Pfizer’s medical team and man a ge the clinical studies. Your project management skills will be leveraged for planning, directing, creating and communicating timelines. You will ensure that the clinical studies are within time, budget and scope.

As a Manager, you provide guidance to operational teams for managing projects. Your planning skills will help in preparing forecasts for resource requirements, and providing areas of improvement for products, processes or services. Through your comprehensive knowledge of principles, concepts and theories of the discipline, you will also work towards advancing new concepts and methodologies. You will be able to take a leadership role to facilitate agreements between different teams.

It is your problem solving ability and commitment that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Provide guidance, lead/co-lead projects, manage own time to meet objectives and plan resource requirements for projects across the division.
• Oversee the overall execution of clinical studies and be accountable for the development of realistic detailed study startup and monitoring plans.
• Oversee and support study start up activities at the country level, including review of key documents and providing support to address regulatory and/or ethics committee questions. Forecast and manage the Clinical Trial Budget.
• Manage full studies for Operational Study Management or manage a unique part of a larger study.
• Serve as primary point of contact for study decisions related to the protocol, data collection and volunteer activities.
• Approve and oversee drug supply management and manage flow of drug supply to the sites.
• Partner with key team members to manage the program to achieve key milestones within time, cost and quality parameters.
• Work with functional lines and directly with Contract Research Organization (CRO) line functions to resolve or triage site level issues.
• Share and escalate plan deviations to Clinical Project Manager and study team.
• Help to address Significant Quality Events or other quality issues at patient and/or site level.
• Lead the data integrity and data quality activities for assigned protocols.
• Provide regional and cross-regional insights on study-site performance and trends to / from the study team.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years ‘ experience
• Demonstrated project management / leadership experience
• Experience working in the research and development of pharmaceutical industry
• Experience conducting, managing or participating in regulatory inspection processes
• Knowledge of project management discipline and its application to vaccine development
• Country level cultural awareness and strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal in English

Nice-to-Have

• Master’s degree
• Experience in early drug development
• Knowledge of the project management discipline and its application to vaccine/drug development

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $88,300.00 to $147,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 12.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits tendersglobal.net (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

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