Program Manager

About the job

As an experienced Program Manager, you will be responsible for leading PMO governance and delivery for large-scale clinical trial programs. Your role will involve driving end-to-end program oversight, ensuring compliance, controlling timelines and budgets, and enabling seamless collaboration across multiple functional teams. Your deep expertise in PMO frameworks, clinical trial execution, cross-functional leadership, and stakeholder management will be crucial for success in this role. • **Key Responsibilities:** - **PMO Governance & Program Leadership:** Establish, implement, and oversee PMO governance frameworks, processes, and standards across multiple clinical trial programs. Define and manage program plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies. Ensure alignment of program execution with organizational objectives, regulatory standards, and best practices. - **End-to-End Program Delivery:** Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and successful delivery of complex clinical trial programs. Drive quality, compliance, and operational excellence throughout all phases of program lifecycle. Monitor budget, resource allocation, program health, KPIs, and deliver timely status reporting to senior leadership. - **Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Management:** Serve as a single point of accountability for program governance and stakeholder engagement. Collaborate closely with Business, Clinical Operations, Development, Testing, Validation, and Operations teams to ensure seamless execution. Facilitate cross-functional communication, issue resolution, and decision-making across global and regional teams. - **Risk, Compliance & Quality Oversight:** Proactively identify risks, issues, and bottlenecks; drive structured mitigation and escalation processes. Ensure documentation and program artifacts are compliant with regulatory guidelines (GCP, FDA, EMA, etc.). Maintain audit readiness and support internal/external inspections. - **Leadership & Strategic Support:** Mentor and guide PMO team members and project managers. Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, PMO maturity development, and best-practice adoption. Provide strategic insights to leadership based on program performance, trends, and lessons learned.