Vice President, Project Leadership Job at Parexel

Job Description

The Vice President of Project Leadership is a strategic leader tasked to: create a working environment that demands discipline across all aspects of project delivery; establish a team of leaders with emotional intelligence, and a desire for authentic working relationships. Engages with Department Senior Leadership as a strategic advisor. Success in this role is measured by the delivery of clinical services across the portfolio of studies managed by their Directors and Project Leaders in the areas of finance, utilization, quality, compliance, and delivery.

Job Responsibility

Create a working environment that demands discipline across all aspects of project delivery
Establish a team of leaders with emotional intelligence, and a desire for authentic working relationships
Engage with Department Senior Leadership as a strategic advisor
Set expectations and hold Directors and Project Teams accountable to agreed project milestones and key deliverables
Intervene when projects are signaling to head off course
Challenge and support Directors and Project Leaders to maintain and evolve a robust operational plan
Seek out commonalities across the portfolio where best practices and knowledge sharing can be leveraged
Maintain targets for profitability, margin expansion, cash flow, and contractual coverage across all projects within the portfolio
Interrogate financial data and the associated relationship with operational delivery
Partner with Project Finance to analyze trends and consistent business practice
Drive teams to comply with data entry and accuracy
Leverage data and analytics for standard and consistent reporting
Advocate for the Department by engaging with supporting business functions
Participate in Risk Governance
Perform routine surveillance of the portfolio to identify risk trends
Facilitate the awareness of these trends across the Department
Act as a sounding board for Directors and Project Leaders with particularly complicated scenarios
Participate in Quality Governance
Promote a holistic view of project quality and assess impact on patients, customers, investigators, and key stakeholders
Establish a strong network with cross-functional peers
Hold one another accountable for the functional contributions to project delivery
Partner with Commercial Leadership to be aware of customer insights, opportunities for growth, market dynamics, and visibility to NBA
Promote a culture of direct, purposeful and timely communication in all forms
Manage Employee Performance aligned to Parexel's Talent Philosophy
Establish year-round, continuous performance feedback through goal setting, scheduled checkpoints and performance review
Strive for excellence with direct reports in project performance and personnel development
Participate in a robust resource strategy in collaboration with Resource Management, Commercial Leadership, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Department Senior Leadership
Liaise between the above-mentioned stakeholders and Directors of Project Management responsible for hiring
Where appropriate, participate in interview process to identify top talent
Participate in the governance of and vision for department training needs and opportunities
Maintain a training curriculum that is fit-for-purpose to employee skills and experience
Ensure compliance with all systems and processes
Model and encourage others to be adaptive in approach
Lead by example to enhance the behaviors and actions to support the execution of the projects
Motivate others to rise to their potential
Drive collaboration within team of direct reports and across regions
Be engaged and knowledgeable of organizational changes to then lead team through successful adoption and implementation
Participate in, and where appropriate lead, Department and Enterprise-wide strategic initiatives
May include periodic review of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and other controlled documents
Provide account level oversight and account management responsibilities
Own the portfolio/account P&L according to budget with revenue recognition and forecasting
As needed, negotiate service terms, change in scopes and invoicing requirements with client counterpart
Be responsible for oversight of profitability of a project(s), program(s) or portfolio
May contribute actively in proposal development teams

Requirements

Strong command of written and spoken English language, local language proficiency as required
Expert project management experience, preferably in healthcare, clinical research, or contract research organization
Proven track record of developing client relationships at account level
Proven substantial leadership in a global, matrix environment
Different trial phase experience (including phases I-IV) will be an advantage/is desirable
Bachelor's degree or equivalent level of education (science or medical related field preferred) or proven substantial project management experience
Advanced degree desirable

Nice to have

Different trial phase experience (including phases I-IV) will be an advantage/is desirable
Advanced degree desirable

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