Associate Director, Project Management

• Provide senior leadership and line management oversight for the Project Management function
• Ensure consistent, high-quality project delivery across the portfolio in alignment with company strategy, policies, SOPs, and global regulatory requirements
• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing Project Delivery Project Management team
• Ensure appropriate resourcing and drive operational excellence across awarded studies
• Integrate project delivery with cross-functional departments to enable collaboration, scalability, and sponsor satisfaction
• Oversee employee training, professional development, compliance, and leadership capability development
• Partner with senior leadership to translate business objectives into effective delivery models
• Provide leadership and direction for the Project Delivery function and support workforce planning
• Lead, develop, hire, coach, and manage Project Managers, including PM I, PM II, and Senior PMs
• Oversee onboarding, role-specific training, competency development, feedback, performance reviews, succession planning, and employee relations
• Ensure staffing models support business needs, delivery excellence, and sustainable workload balance
• Oversee preparation, monitoring, and reporting of departmental KPIs
• Identify workflow streamlining, process improvement, efficiency, and standardization opportunities
• Ensure effective adoption of clinical trial systems, technology tools, company systems, workflows, and processes
• Review project scope, timelines, budgets, complexity, resource allocation, and forecasting
• Partner with Project Directors on resource deployment, performance, workload, capability, and mitigation plans
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, contractual commitments, quality standards, business continuity, and client satisfaction
• Serve as a senior advisor for proactive risk and issue management
• Mentor Project Managers in planning, stakeholder management, and problem resolution
• Share lessons learned and best practices with internal stakeholders
• Write, review, and maintain SOPs, tools, and process documentation
• Support audit and inspection readiness
• Perform other assigned responsibilities when qualified and adequately trained

• B.Sc. in a field relevant to clinical project management
• PMP certification an asset
• Minimum of 7 years of combined experience in clinical research and project management within a biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or CRO industry
• Demonstrated leadership and line management experience, preferably within a CRO environment
• Strong leadership, judgement, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment and manage multiple priorities
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal teams, sponsors, and external partners
• Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time
• Good knowledge of good clinical practices and applicable Health Canada and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations/guidelines
• Must be legally able to work in the EU

• Permanent full-time position
• Flexible schedule
• Vacation
• Home-based position
• Ongoing learning and development
• Attractive advancement opportunities
• Equal opportunity and accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process, upon request