Senior Clinical Project Manager - Uk
ftlee fortrea clinical research unit
📍 Remote🌐 Remote🕐 1mo ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**What if your project leadership skills helped new medicines take their first step in human clinical trials?**
Fortrea is one of the world´s largest and longest-established early-phase clinical research organizations.
From first-in-human to exploratory biomarker or complex ph1b programs, our **Clinical Pharmacology** teams generate critical safety, tolerability, PK and PD data that help new medicines to move forward.
We are currently hiring a **Senior Clinical Project Manager, Clinical Pharmacology** in **the UK** to drive this mission forward.
This is a full-time, **remote** job.
DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES
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* Lead the end-to-end delivery of **Healthy Volunteers** and **Patient** Clinical Pharmacology projects, overseeing complex, high‑value studies across global, cross‑functional teams.
* Act as the **primary point of contact** for sponsor project teams, managing expectations, driving communication, and building long‑term client relationships.
* Own **project scope, timelines, and budgets**, proactively managing change, financial performance, and delivery against contractual commitments.
* Apply your project leadership expertise to **anticipate, identify, and mitigate risks**, managing critical paths to ensure key milestones and performance metrics remain aligned with both client and Fortrea objectives.
* Provide **senior leadership within a matrix project environment**, guiding and mentoring project team members while resolving issues and escalations at pace.
* Ensure **quality, compliance, and audit readiness**, maintaining oversight of TMFs, CTMS activities, project training, and adherence to SOPs and ICH/GCP standards.
* Contribute to **business growth and operational excellence**, supporting bid defence activities, strategic client relationships, KPI oversight, and process improvement initiatives.
**AND YOUR LONG-TERM CONTRIBUTION?**
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You will play a key role in **strengthening how Fortrea delivers Phase Ib clinical trials**, helping evolve our approach to more complex early‑phase programs.
Beyond individual projects, your experience will support **process innovation** and **operational delivery**, influencing how Phase Ib studies are planned, executed, and scaled across Clinical Pharmacology Services.
**WHO YOU ARE**
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* Extensive clinical research experience within a CRO or biopharmaceutical environment, including at least **4 years of full project management accountability** on **global** clinical studies.
* **Phase 1 and Phase Ib experience**: Familiarity with early-phase trials in healthy volunteers and patients and their fast-paced environment is ideal, but international PM experience in Ph II-III will also be welcomed.
* **Financial Acumen**: study budget management skills, with experience in forecasting, revenue recognition and change order development and negotiation.
* **Leadership**: proven ability to inspire and manage globally dispersed teams and vendors, ensuring cross-functional collaboration and achieving core project milestones. Ability to work on multiple studies at any one time.
* **Risk Management**: expertise in critical path analysis and the development of effective risk mitigation plans
* **Client Relations**: a probing ability to build client trust, resolve complex challenges and influence decisions
* **BID presentation** expertise.
**Education/Qualifications:**
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* University/college life science degree from an appropriately accredited institution.
**Preferred**:
* Master´s or other advanced degree
* PMP certification
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Learn more about our [EEO & Accommodations request here](https://careers.fortrea.com/us/en/eeo-and-accommodations).