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Associate Project Manager

  1. Brazil
2025-118298
  1. Clinical Trial Support
  2. ICON Strategic Solutions

About the role

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As an Associate Project manager at ICON, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the coordination and management of clinical trials, contributing to the design, analysis, and advancement of treatments and therapies.


What you will be doing:

  • Assisting project managers in the planning, execution, and monitoring of clinical trials.
  • Understanding and interpreting data to support decision-making and problem-solving, with guidance from senior colleagues. Responsibilities include developing detailed schedules for R&D and Medical Projects across all phases, recommending improvements to enhance planning efficiency, and ensuring data quality by adhering to business rules and standards. 
  • Coordinating study activities, including site selection, patient recruitment, and data collection.
  • Supporting the development of study protocols, case report forms, and other study-related documents.
  • Participating in data analysis and interpretation to support decision-making and regulatory submissions.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure project milestones are met and deliverables are achieved.
  • Selects suitable Work Packages within the planning system, builds schedules to forecast Total Project Cost (TPC), and aligns schedules with the project strategy. Additionally, it involves contributing to scenario planning, recommending plan adjustments, and generating status reports on project performance and quality.

You are:

  • Bachelor's degree in a scientific or related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • Advanced level of English.
  • Experience in project management.
  • Strong organizational and multitasking skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment.

Additional requirements:

 

  • Experience with Planisware, Microsoft Project, Excel, and Spotfire. 
  • PMP certification (preferred).
  • Experience in headcount resource and financial forecasting (preferred).

What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

  • Various annual leave entitlements
  • A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs
  • Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximise savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead
  • Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being
  • Life assurance
  • Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others

Visit our careers website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values.   We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.


https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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