Project Manager/Business Analyst - Digital Health Transformation

Description:
Remote

Our client, a small clinical-stage biotech focused on cardiovascular medicines, seeks a Project Manager/Business Analyst to lead a digital health transformation initiative for a part-time, six-month engagement. The consultant will translate clinical functional needs into build-ready requirements and own delivery across workstreams, timelines, and stakeholder communication for the PULSE platform. The role requires sponsor-side clinical PM experience within pharma or biotech and will manage discovery, requirements, program planning, cadence, and risk while enabling developers to focus on delivery.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $105.00 to $95.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Run discovery with clinical and business users across feasibility, recruitment, clinical operations, study start-up, contracts and budgets, finance, and data management. Document workflows, pain points, and decision points.
• Map current-state and future-state processes
• Translate business needs into user stories with clear acceptance criteria, edge cases, and definitions of done.
• Decompose epics into stories aligned to the existing ID scheme and tag by point of contact and scope tier.
• Define data requirements, ownership, refresh cadence, and data quality considerations. Collaborate with developers on standard schemas.
• Gather and curate reference data and examples to ensure development aligns with real inputs.
• Capture business rules and domain logic, including scoring criteria, negotiation rules, fees, and selection factors.
• Maintain a living requirements repository synchronized with delivered functionality.
• Own end-to-end workstreams including plans, milestones, and dependencies for defined POCs.
• Build and maintain the integrated program plan and roadmap aligned to clinical timelines.
• Maintain a RAID log, follow up with owners, and escalate when required.
• Plan and facilitate workshops and design reviews with agendas, pre-reads, and written outputs.
• Run program cadence including stand-ups, weekly stakeholder status, and executive updates.
• Report concise weekly status with RAG, progress, milestones, risks, and requests.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies including IT, security, data owners, and external vendors or APIs.
• Identify and mitigate delivery, data, compliance, and adoption risks early.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for business stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Facilitate alignment across functions and drive documented decisions.
• Publish timely meeting notes and decision records with owners and due dates.

Experience Requirements:

• Clinical project management experience on the sponsor side within pharma or biotech.
• Proven business analysis capability creating user stories with acceptance criteria and managing backlogs.
• Experience mapping clinical operations processes including feasibility, enrollment forecasting, SoA/FMV, site budgets, and CTA negotiation.
• Demonstrated program management including integrated planning, RAID management, and stakeholder cadence.
• Ability to define data requirements, collaborate on schemas, and manage reference inputs.
• Skilled facilitator for discovery, process mapping, prioritization, and design reviews.
• Strong communication with concise executive-level status reporting.
• Track record of risk identification and mitigation in regulated environments.
• Availability for part-time engagement of approximately 20-30 hours per week.

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