Senior Clinical Project Manager

Clinical Project Manager - RWE Vaccines study - Strong budget management experience

Upsilon Global are seeking an experienced Project Manager for a pivotal ongoing RSV vaccine effectiveness study. This is a crucial project and one that requires a PM with strong study budget experience, organisational skills and experience in reigniting under-performing projects.

You’ll be working closely with the global head of operations and local/regional teams to mitigate existing issues to success as well as the commercial/finance team to manage study budget and reporting effectively.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong leadership and organisational skills to have a major impact in identifying issues and and proactively addressing them to deliver successful change.

Key information:

Position: Clinical Project Manager / Sr Clinical Project Manager

Employment: Freelance

FTE: 0.5-0.6 FTE initially, rising to 0.8-0.9 FTE from August/September in line ith RSV season

Start Date: March2026

Duration: Initial 12 month contract

Location: Remote/fully homebased

• Helping/training the internal PMs on;
• Risk management/awareness (forward thinking/risk awareness/quality by design)
• Project finances (margins, burn rates, costs, internal fixed costs vs PTCs and general study budget management)
• ICH-GCP guidelines (focus on E6, R3)

Background and experience:

• Internal fixed fee management – burn and scope management
• PT management (sites, vendors, other)
• Ability to understand (not necessarily update) study budget tool algorithms and mapping
• Site cost management – planned vs actuals; accruals, invoiced, paid, reconciliation with study budget, etc
• Change Order management (including directing budget team on what to update and why);
• Negotiations with clients
• Scope management
• Process alignment
• Experience with budget reconciliations (eg planned vs actual + expected units/spend)
• Experience working with commercial/budgets team and ability to take full accountability for the budget management and steps within, and not rely on other departments to drive the process.

Strong organisational skills

• Ability to proactively identify gaps in processes, drive process improvements, expand on best practices, etc.
• Ability/experience to proactively create study tools and processes if needed and not currently within our scope (nothing complex, but can not rely 100% on internal solutions)
• Must have a ‘let’s make it happen’ attitude

Strong leadership skills

• PMs to be fully accountable for the delivery and quality of their study.
• Must be a "driver", autonomous and a leader
• Experience with taking on an underperforming project and mitigating existing issues to success

Experience

• Seasonal ID experience (RSV beneficial)
• Experience with working on a multi-centre study in Germany (eg awareness of German approval process)
• This role would be well suited to an experienced PM with a background in training and development of junior colleagues.

For more details please apply or contract to register your interest.