Join us in redefining what it means to work for a CRO. Working at Rho, you'll be joining a team who take healthcare and clinical research personally, with shared experiences that drive a passion to heal, cure and solve some of humanity's biggest challenges.

As Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to provide leadership for cross-functional, clinical research projects and team members. You'll be able to manage multiple clinical studies and will be responsible for providing high-quality project results as well as motivating, training and mentoring team members. This is a permanent role and we require strong experience in managing CNS studies.

Our Project Teams will tell you, joining Rho has been one of their best career moves in terms of contentment, financial rewards and career growth, which is why we have such stability in the group!

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading regional projects, including the management of cross-functional project teams and vendors
• May work alongside the global Project Lead on larger, complex or global studies
• Establishing and maintaining project timelines
• Organizing, leading project team meetings and managing follow up; meetings may be led in collaboration with the Project Lead on more complex trials
• Developing and maintaining project management plans and reviewing functional area plans and other project documents to ensure consistency across documents and with the scope of work
• Establishing and managing project budgets (including vendor and site budgets), forecasting budgets and activities appropriately, tracking out-of-scope activities, and ensuring budget adherence by internal and external team members
• Overseeing vendor contracts and site budgets/contract amendments, including negotiation and execution. Serving as the escalation point for resolving initial site budget negotiations between the site, client, and study start-up team. Managing the Investigator Grant Payment (IGP) process, ensuring sufficient contracted funds are in place to support projected enrollment and site-related costs throughout the study
• Negotiating client requests that result in changes in scope or opportunities to expand business or scope
• Managing assigned cross-functional project resources, ensuring that project tasks are correctly assigned to staff and vendors
• Serving as the primary project and client liaison, providing timely, clear, and appropriate levels of communication and customer service
• Reviewing project operational metrics, identifies risks and issues across the project, and working with project team to address concerns
• Providing status updates to leadership, including the development of slides and presentations at project oversight meetings; also provides status updates to clients
• May support the Contracts and Proposals and Business Development teams with RFIs and RFPs, including participating in bid defenses

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in life science or public health along with 3 years of experience working in clinical project management.
• Experience within Central Nervous System.
• Strong Communicator: Demonstrate written, verbal and presentation skills to help showcase the successes of your work and Rho's.
• Committed to Quality: Every job at Rho requires an attention to detail, a deep understanding of our high-quality scientific standards, and an ability to care about every outcome.
• High-Character: Contribute to our collaborative culture with honesty and integrity. At Rho, we value a strong team spirit highlighted by loyalty, accountability, and mutual trust. We work smart together, we work hard together, and we laugh together. We take responsibility for our actions, forgive honest mistakes and respect one another.
• Critical Thinker: Rho values thinking. Draw on your native ingenuity, sharpened and enhanced by our intellect, training, and experience. We evaluate situations and opportunities objectively and incisively; we then craft novel, practical solutions.
• Agile and Adaptable: Rho values the ability to change quickly. We eagerly anticipate, respond to, and take advantage of changes in our environment. We embrace risk but manage it by planning, accepting, and learning from both failures and successes. The opportunity to adapt and evolve energizes us.