Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager - Mexico, Mexico City

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

Do you want to watch clinical development change, or do you want to be the one to shape it?

Because we’re hoping you’re here for the latter.

Who Are You?

You are a natural leader with a passion for drug development. You are organized, but flexible and adaptable to unexpected changes. You can easily envision the bigger picture, without losing sight of the day-to-day tasks. You provide excellent leadership not only to your project teams, but also to clients. You are excited and enthusiastic, motivating your teams to do great work and collaborating easily with your clients. You never settle for what is but are always pushing clinical development forward to what it can be, while encouraging others to do the same. Most of all, you want to do this work in a place where you’re more than an employee number – a place where you can influence, innovate, and be afforded opportunities for growth. A place you love working.

Still here? Good. Because if this is you, we’d really like to meet you.

What will you be doing?

Long story short, you oversee the whole project or a portfolio of projects. As a Project Manager, you will be the primary liaison to your clients, ensuring questions are answered and issues are resolved. You work together with other project leaders and vendors to keep your projects running at optimal quality - on time and on budget - managing all project deliverables, with financial acumen and a risk mitigation mindset. As a project leader, you provide feedback to your team to help improve overall performance. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Act as primary liaison with clients.

•  Lead and direct cross-functional team leaders and third parties/vendors with some supervision and support.

• Manage project contractual deliverables, including progress via metrics and adherence to contractual agreement time, quality/scope, and cost deliverables).

• Participation and attendance in bid defense process.

• Provide feedback on project team members’ performance to respective line managers.

• Maintain a detailed understanding of each functional service area and lead multifaceted functional teams effectively with little supervision or support.

• Develop in-depth analysis and projections of project timelines and financials for senior and customer management with little to no supervision.

What do you need to have?

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in clinical research, including a minimum of 2 years of full-service project management experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key responsibilities of the job, required.

• Undergraduate degree or its international equivalent from an accredited institution or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key responsibilities of this job, required.

  • Undergraduate degree in clinical, science, or health-related field, preferred.

  • Licensed healthcare professional (i.e., registered nurse), preferred.

• Minimum of 1 year of drug development experience, preferred.

• English fluency (ability to read, write, speak)

• Travel of up to 25% is required for this position. Exact amounts of travel will vary, pending client needs.

• To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the Mexico, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.

• 1+ years of experience leading Oncology trials is a plus, although not required.

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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 maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized 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, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

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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