Project Manager, Research Job Description
Project manager, research
provides overall project management to the New Business Unit/Life Sciences unit of the Talent Development Center grant-funded projects.
Project Manager, Research Duties & Responsibilities
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Support ITS&P management and markets in the understanding of the drivers of illicit trade to substantiate the development of business strategies and plans to achieve ITS&P objectives
Support business decisions by collecting, structuring and analysing business data and open source information on Illicit trade in tobacco to allow for the identification of drivers of Illicit tobacco Trade and Consumption
Prepare and update information dashboards for each PMI region and the focus markets on a quarterly base
Responsible to provide support to ITS&P management on any ad-hoc queries of PMI management and markets relating to market dynamics
Lead specific ad-hoc projects related to business initiatives or management requests related to information requests
Develop analytical methodologies to determine the drivers of illicit tobacco trade and Consumption in key PMI markets
Increase the departmental knowledge of local issues, through permanent exchanges with the markets and gathering of local information to facilitate the understanding of IT drivers
Investigate and propose ways to improve the data collection process to support the understanding of the drivers of Illicit Trade
Able to manage multiple clients and projects under tight concurrent deadlines
Excellent communication skills – specifically how to distill issues, manage client expectations, act as a trusted advisor and communicate in a timely manner under pressure
Project Manager, Research Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Project Manager, Research
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, GCP, IATA, SAS, SOLE, NACE, SMRP, ASQ, CITI
Education for Project Manager, Research
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the project manager, research job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Writing, Project Management, Public Health, Management, Social Sciences, Communication, Science, Spanish, Education, English
Skills for Project Manager, Research
Desired skills for project manager, research include:
Agile methodologies and their strengths and weaknesses
Product and software development life cycle
Standards
Digital media advertising ecosystem
Microsoft Office suite
Project management tools and concepts
Basic business principles and company goals and objectives
Biological sciences with technical
Business change management
Business unit
Desired experience for project manager, research includes:
Proactively contacts clients by phone and email to finalize project specifications and to provide consultative updates throughout the project life cycle
Communicates with Account Lead and Operations Management to apprise them of study status and any issues that require help
Supports existing account relationships to ensure they remain healthy, productive, profitable and mutually beneficial, with the goal of securing repeat business and achieving targeted revenues
Develops an understanding of the company’s product portfolio with an ability to facilitate and support the delivery of new and expanded products/services
Works on a variety of client centric initiatives, internal initiatives, new product roll-out, training, training documentation and continuous education
Able to conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses
Project Manager, Research Examples
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of project manager, research. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for project manager, research
- Works alongside Project Director and Moderator to learn how to provide design recommendations by offering thoughtful input and guidance
- Manages fieldwork by partnering with Moderator, Client and facilities/technology platforms
- Oversees the study recruitment and resolves difficulties
- Oversees finances and billing of each project while communicating costs to project stakeholders
- Participates in divisional and special interest meetings as needed to keep abreast of business process and policy changes
- Report on activities as required for divisional performance monitoring
- Documents policies and procedures
- Represents Principal Investigators at local, regional and national meetings, acting on their behalf to disseminate information, identify, advise and resolve issues involving multi-center studies
- Manages third-party partners and outsourcing vendors to deliver the highest levels of client satisfaction
- Successfully manages multiple challenging and complex projects
Qualifications for project manager, research
- Actively manage project budget, work plan, profitability, project and billings schedule
- Owns questionnaire, sample design, analysis, and reporting and serves as day-to-day client contact on projects
- Participates in the proposal development process (e.g., schedule, pricing, methodology)
- Actively manages client relationships for existing clients
- Anticipates and identifies project problems and finds solutions independently or with minimal guidance
- Presents a CMB University case study annually
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of project manager, research. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for project manager, research
- Organize and coordinate all project meetings
- Handle all project communications with partners, participants, and other stakeholders
- Lead efforts to recruit research participants
- Coordinate all human subject (IRB) processes and procedures for the project
- Write project reports, including yearly report to funding agency and schools
- Oversee project budget and work with budget office to process project payments
- Supervise and coordinate project personnel to accomplish all data collection, management, storage, and access
- Support qualitative data analysis in mathematics education
- Lead project dissemination efforts (presentations, publications, etc)
- Maintain project website
Qualifications for project manager, research
- Work with experts to set and maintain the project learning management system
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the project principal investigator
- Identifies funding opportunities and serves as lead grant writer
- Convenes topic-focused faculty working groups and coordinates the work of multidisciplinary teams
- Engages institutions, agencies and potential funders in nurturing new models and solutions
- Facilitates the creation of proposals, and works strategically with faculty and external partners to develop project designs and protocols
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of project manager, research. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for project manager, research
- Compiles and summarizes research results, presents findings and writes papers for peer-reviewed journals, abstracts and presentations
- Contributes to conferences and symposia
- Effectively use Market Strategies tools and software to monitor data collection
- Perform qualitative project management tasks with guidance
- Process improvement, standardization, and tools development for key research processes
- Contract negotiation and compliance for US Government funded research projects
- Logistical and operational support for key research meetings and conferences
- Manage portfolio of externally funded projects by European Commission and other government bodies (planning, monitoring, reporting)
- Take an active part in operational and project management process improvement, standardization and tools development for key research processes
- Interface with legal, licensing and commercial fulfilment teams to ensure smooth execution of research projects and industrial & academic collaborations, and develop plan to address recurring issues
Qualifications for project manager, research
- Identifies key business opportunities and/ or issues and develop appropriate action plans
- Two to four years of clinical research project management experience, preferably in a CRO or related environment
- Knowledge of clinical research operations and data management, or experience in an equivalent regulated environment
- Familiar with GCPs and FDA regulations as they pertain to the management of clinical studies
- Demonstrated professional outlook and excellent communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Process Engineering, Business/Management or directly related degree required
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Project Manager, Research Job Description
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of project manager, research. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for project manager, research
- Develop study-specific procedures, study protocol, Case Report Forms (including testing) and other study operational documents
- Create and maintain detailed project timelines, work flows and monitor project progress to ensure milestones are met on time and within budget
- May create and/or manage research study budget which may include deciding on & approving expenditures of funds based on budget
- Trains, directs, assigns duties to & may supervise lab EEs, students, residents and/or fellows
- Performs professional work that requires specialized to general knowledge of the field of institutional research, and a solid understanding, use, and application of concepts, theories, principles, practices, and terminology of this area of specialization
- Manages institutional research workflow and provide status reports to the Vice President and the Director
- Supports the Institutional Research Office’s core activity of capturing, extracting, analyzing, and reporting data on faculty, students, staff and other critical academic, physical and financial information for leadership (university wide, chancellor, and school operations) decision-making purposes and external reporting requirements
- Creates reports, presentations, and publications based on the data analyses conducted
- Presents research findings made to university administrators
- Deadlines for research projects met within established time frames
Qualifications for project manager, research
- Academic and/or practical experience with survey or market research methodologies or operations preferred
- Must be detail-oriented, self-motivated, and possess a desire to work with data and numbers
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) with project teams inside the company and clients outside
- Must be able to deal with ambiguity and make independent decisions about proposal content and project work
- Experience with agile project management (Scrum, Kanban ) traditional waterfall project management
- Ability and interest to master project management & collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project and Trello
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of project manager, research. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for project manager, research
- Collaborates with investigators on planning and implementation of statistical analyses
- Participates in implementing federally funded health services research studies and in development of publications reporting results
- Implements complex data linkages across large datasets, applies techniques such as construction of episodes of care and medication use calendars from healthcare claims data, uses advanced techniques in SAS software, and provides guidance to statistical programmers, while applying and further developing expertise in statistical modeling of outcomes
- Manage customer satisfaction tracking studies across different constituents by partnering with research suppliers
- Learn all visit study components to effectively manage the staff and quality control processes
- Use information provided by the Data Manager for operational decision making, including determining staffing patterns, developing data clean-up projects, and evaluating the efficiency of data collection activities
- Oversee scheduling of research visits with staff and participants and troubleshoot issues related to visits and participants
- Supervise 5-8 Research Assistants, in accordance with HPHCI policies
- Oversee on-boarding and training of new field staff
- Update and maintain Viva Protocol, Operations Manual and Training Manual
Qualifications for project manager, research
- Prior experience with qualitative research facilities, recruiters, or exposure to a variety of qualitative research methods is highly preferred
- Prior experience in client-facing role preferred
- Experience with REDCap, Wordpress, mHealth
- BA/BS in a biological science with significant experience of working in a Research environment and greater than 4 years’ experience in the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry
- Advanced degree (e.g, MS with greater than two years’ experience in the industry)
- Understand the overall biologic/pharmaceutical product development process, stages of drug discovery and experience participating on a cross functional project teams