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Job Overview:

 Job Overview:

• Are you an experienced Project Manager looking for your next challenge?


• Do you want to work for a global organisation with un-parrelled career development opportunities?


• Do you want to work for a company that helps build a healthier and safer world?

Covance is a global, world-leading Life Sciences Contract Research Organisation that provides dedicated and fully comprehensive laboratory testing and drug development services to the pharmaceutical industry. We strive to make a difference to people’s everyday lives by bringing essential medicines to the market. We are looking to recruit 4 Gobal Study Managers (GSM) to join our expanding teams in Mechelen or Geneva (50% in the office, 50% home-based).

Job responsibilities include:

As a key member of the Project Management department, you will be managing a portfolio of global, high complexity clinical studies. As such, your main responsibilities will entail:

• Being the key contact between our clients (pharmaceutical companies), the various departments within our Central Laboratory organization, other Covance business units and external vendors


• Providing project management oversight for your portfolio of studies, focusing on key client deliverables through budget, risk, and milestone management


• Ensuring successful interactions between the clients and the extended Covance study management team you are collaborating with (e.g. Study Design Lead and Regional Study Coordinators)


• Reviewing the study protocol to ensure quality implementation and successful delivery of client specifics and requirements


• Being accountable for the implementation, monitoring and reporting of performance metrics


• Ensuring that all customer expectations are documented and acted upon in compliance with regulatory requirements


• Working with appropriate internal and external personnel to understand the culture and pipeline of assigned clients

What Covance can offer you:

• A strong and experienced project management team who will contribute to and support your personal and professional development


• A competitive salary together with a comprehensive benefits package including health and pension


• Unsurpassed career development opportunities supported by exceptional people from across the globe with an energizing purpose

Education/Qualifications:

• BSc or Master degree in life science or equivalent

Experience:

• 2- 5 years’ experience in managing projects in pharma industry or in a CRO, preferably in clinical .


• Demonstrated leadership skills


• Proven ability to negotiate and collaborate to deliver effectively


• Great customer service skills


• Ability to make difficult decisions and act efficiently in an environment with dynamic timelines


• Dedicated to a culture of quality and continuous improvement


• Strong communication skills


• Fluent in English

Covance has helped pharmaceutical and biotech companies develop one-third of all prescription medicines in the market today. If you wish to be part of a team that helps to bring the miracles of medicine to market sooner, then apply now!