Associate Project Director (Queensland based)

Associate Project Director (Queensland based)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities.

Our Clinical Development model brings the customer and the patient to the center of everything that we do. We are continuously looking for ways to simplify and streamline our work to not only make Syneos Health easier to work with, but to make us easier to work for.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to accelerate the delivery of therapies, because we are passionate to change lives.

Discover what our 29,000 employees, across 110 countries already know:

WORK HERE MATTERS EVERYWHERE

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to our Total Self culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Our Total Self culture is what unites us globally, and we are dedicated to taking care of our people.
• 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

• Manages a project as a Project Manager overseeing interdisciplinary clinical research studies and/or programs and ensures compliance with GCP, relevant SOP’s and regulatory requirements.

• Acts as primary liaison and/or facilitator between the Company and the Customer to ensure project launch, conduct, and closeout according to the Customer’s and the Company's contractual agreement.

• Leads project team to ensure quality, timelines and budget management.

• Implements resource strategies to achieve project goals.

• Accountable for all project deliverables for assigned projects.

• Develops contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies to ensure successful delivery of study goals.

• Identifies and implements performance improvement and operational efficiencies.

• Maintains and evaluates project progress by maintaining timelines, project plans and other tracking/analysis tools.

• Produces and distributes status, resourcing, and tracking reports as well as functional area plan to customers, appropriate team members and senior management.

• Maintains effective communication with the Customer and project team through oral and written correspondence, project status reports, and monthly progress reports; ensures adequate documentation of each communication.

• Attends and presents information at internal and external project meetings.

• Develops strong relationships with current and prospective clients to generate new and/or add-on business for the future.

• Supports the Business Development Department by providing information on Company's capabilities, patient populations, etc. and presents Company capabilities as well as project management specific responsibilities at Customer proposal defense meetings.

• Works with Business Development and the Proposal/Contracts groups to develop proposals for Customer requested opportunities. Works with this team to develop budgets and scope of work for the final contract.

• Responsible for quality and completeness of TMF for assigned projects.

• Accountable for the financial performance of each project assignment.

• Accountable for all project deliverables for each project assigned.

• Accountable for maintenance of study information on a variety of databases and systems.

• Responsible for study management components of inspection readiness for all aspects of the study conduct.

• Demonstrates mastery of current business unit therapeutic environment and drug development trends and facilitates the development of knowledge for more junior staff.

• Facilitates team training in accordance with protocol and/or project requirements including therapeutic, protocol specific, and process training.

• Serves as team leader and line manages and mentors other project management and clinical monitoring staff.

• Facilitate