Clinical Project Manager CRO - Career Growth & Benefits in Columbus

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When you work at Rho, it's more than just a job—you become part of the Rho Factor. We're a proud bunch of science nerds who love tackling big challenges together. We're not your typical CRO, and we're not trying to be. Here, curiosity is encouraged, fresh approaches are welcome, and collaboration is at the heart of everything we do.

Whether you're a data wizard, analytical genius, project mastermind, or any other role, you'll fit right into the equation of the Rho Factor. Expect plenty of geeky jokes, eccentric personalities, spontaneous brainstorms, and a supportive community where people genuinely care about their work—and each other.

You'll have the opportunity to experience a thriving company with real stability—financial, workforce, and corporate—which has created a safe environment to innovate and develop over a long and rewarding career.

We're currently hiring a Clinical Project Manager to join our team in the US! Our Project Management team is responsible for the successful planning, implementation, monitoring, execution, and close-out of clinical trial projects in compliance with Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and standard procedures agreed upon in each client contract. Project Managers provide leadership to project team members and ensure that all contractual expectations and obligations are met.

Our Project Management Team 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!

Responsibilities:

• Leads clinical projects, including the management of cross-functional project teams and vendors, or works alongside the global Project Lead on larger, complex, or global studies when more than one PM is required to manage a trial.
• Establishes and maintains project timelines; organizes and leads project team meetings and manages follow-up.
• Develops and maintains project management plans; reviews functional area plans and other project documents to ensure consistency across documents and with the scope of work.
• Establishes and manages project vendor and site budgets; forecasts budgets and activities; tracks out-of-scope activities; ensures budget adherence by internal and external team members; oversees vendor contracts and site budgets/contract amendments; manages the Investigator Grant Payment (IGP) process, ensuring sufficient contracted funds are in place to support projected enrollment and site-related costs throughout the study.
• Negotiates client requests that result in changes in scope or opportunities to expand business or scope.
• Manages cross-functional project resources, ensuring that project tasks are correctly assigned to staff and vendors; identifies when additional resources are required; provides timely and accurate performance feedback to team members and escalates to management as appropriate.
• Serves as the primary project and client liaison, providing timely, clear, and appropriate levels of communication and customer service.
• Builds and maintains positive client and stakeholder relationships; understands project-level requirements and satisfaction with progress and performance; recognizes additional opportunities to expand business or scope.
• Identifies, evaluates, and manages project risks and study trends throughout trial conduct with internal and external stakeholders; escalates when appropriate.
• Coordinates inspection readiness efforts by proactively managing project documentation, identifying compliance gaps, and participating in audits and inspections.
• Reviews project operational metrics, identifies risks and issues across the project, and works with the project team to address concerns.
• Provides status updates to leadership, including developing slides and presentations at project oversight meetings; also provides status updates to clients.
• Builds relationships with global, cross-functional project team members.
• Trains and mentors Project Management employees including Project Managers, APMs, and Project Associates.
• May support the Contracts, Proposals, and Business Development teams with RFIs and RFPs, including participating in bid defenses.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in life sciences or public health, along with at least 3 years of experience working in clinical project management, ideally within a CRO environment.
• Ideally, experience in neurology, analgesia, respiratory, immunology, or dermatology.
• Knowledge of clinical trial processes and client expectations.
• Ability to lead components of clinical projects, including study start-up and close-out, as well as establish and manage project budgets and develop project management plans; understanding of protocol development and/or review; familiarity with the drug development process, ICH-GCP guidelines, and federal regulations.
• Ability to proactively identify issues with projects and lead resolution within the team; developing problem-solving skills, judgment, and the ability to anticipate necessary action.
• Makes data-driven decisions and resolves issues proactively.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and communication skills along with diplomatic negotiation skills.
• Ability to lead, coordinate, and motivate teams; delegates and prioritizes work for self and team members.

Benefits:

Rho provides a comprehensive benefits package for all benefit-eligible employees, which includes medical, vision, dental, HSA, FSA, EAP, life & disability insurance, and 401(k). All employees are eligible for paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and bereavement leave.

Flexibility: We encourage a work-life balance that allows employees to bring their best selves to work while being passionate about their lives outside work.

EOE. Veterans/Disabled