Global Project Manager - US/UK

Civia Health is hiring a Global Project Manager to deliver an assigned portfolio of global studies to time, cost, and quality. The role manages study execution and client communication while coordinating in-country and cross-functional teams, maintaining plans and reporting, and supporting quality and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Manage assigned global studies end to end across start-up, recruitment, execution, and close-out
• Maintain study timelines, budgets, and resource plans, tracking progress against approved baselines
• Identify risks and issues early, propose mitigation and recovery actions, and escalate to the Global Study Delivery Lead where they exceed delegated authority
• Monitor study budgets and variance, and support change-order and invoicing activity
• Serve as the day-to-day client contact for assigned studies, with escalation support from the Global Study Delivery Lead
• Prepare and deliver regular study status updates — progress, risks, variance, and recovery actions
• Track client commitments and action items through to closure
• Contribute to a consistently positive client experience that supports repeat work
• Apply Civia’s study delivery and project-management methodology, templates, and tools consistently
• Maintain study plans, risk and issue logs, and decision records to the required standard
• Run study kick-off, team, and client meetings with clear agendas, minutes, and actions
• Follow up with internal functions to secure their contributions to study commitments
• Support onboarding and informal mentoring of less experienced delivery colleagues
• Work day to day with in-country delivery teams to align on priorities, timelines, and responsibilities for each assigned study
• Coordinate Site Operations, Recruitment, Regulatory, Data, Quality, and Safety input to deliver each study to plan
• Prepare for and take part in study-level delivery reviews, driving timely resolution of bottlenecks
• Make sure each country team and function knows what it owns, and by when, on assigned studies
• Escalate constructively when delivery performance deviates from plan
• Build and maintain study plans in line with Civia’s delivery methodology
• Set up and maintain study baselines and forecasts using the agreed models
• Track and report study KPIs using the established KPI framework
• Keep study data in CRIO, HubSpot, Monday.com, and related systems accurate and current
• Provide feedback on methodology, templates, and tools based on study experience
• Follow the governance routines and performance cadence set for the portfolio
• Maintain audit and inspection readiness on assigned studies
• Implement corrective and preventive actions on assigned studies and track them to closure
• Capture lessons learned at study milestones and close-out, and share them with the delivery team

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of clinical research experience, including at least 3 years managing clinical trials (global or multi-country preferred)
• B.S. or B.A
• Track record of delivering studies to time, cost, and quality
• Working knowledge of project-management methods and tools
• Sound understanding of ICH-GCP, GDPR, and relevant regulatory requirements
• Good analytical and financial skills — able to manage study budgets, forecasts, and KPIs
• global or multi-country preferred
• science-related degree preferred
• Project-management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2) advantageous
• Experience with CRIO, HubSpot, and Monday.com, or comparable platforms