Associate Project Manager

Everest Clinical Research (“Everest”) is a full-service contract research organization (CRO) providing a broad range of expertise-based clinical research services to worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. We serve some of the best-known companies and work with many of the most advanced drugs, biologics, and medical devices in development today.

Everest has been an independent CRO since 2004 with a strong foundation as a statistical and data management center of excellence. Building on this foundation, Everest has successfully developed and established itself as a full-service CRO. Everest’s headquarters are located in Markham (Greater Toronto Area), Ontario, Canada with additional sites in Little Falls (Greater New York City Area), New Jersey, USA, and Shanghai (Pudong Zhangjiang New District), China.

Everest is known in the industry for its high quality deliverables, superior customer service, and flexibility in meeting clients’ needs. A dynamic organization with an entrepreneurial origin, Everest continues to experience exceptional growth and great success.

Quality is our backbone, customer-focus is our tradition, flexibility is our strength that’s us that’s Everest.

To drive continued success in this exciting clinical research field, we are seeking a committed, skilled, and customer-focused individual to join our winning team as an **Associate Project Manager** for our Toronto/Markham, Ontario, Canada on-site location, or remotely from a home-based office anywhere in Canada in accordance with our Work from Home policy.

**Job Summary**:

- This position supports effective and efficient project delivery by performing project management duties, working in partnership with project managers or senior project management oversight resources. The supportive project management duties include, but are not limited to: defining project scope and cost estimate budgets, planning, directing, coordinating project activities, managing resources and budgets, as well as coordinating project delivery across internal and external cross-functional teams engaged in clinical research and development activities. This position is also accountable for reporting project progress status to Everest internal management and its clients, and support performance of regular project billing and invoicing and financial tracking/reporting activities. These activities may include but are not limited to managing projects with activities focused on clinical operations, data management, statistics, medical writing, clinical trial technologies (including IWRS/IRT and eDiary/ePRO), administration of data monitoring and adjudication committees, pharmacovigilance services, as well as preparing drug submissions to regulatory agencies.
- When required, the incumbent may assist the organization in responding to and preparing for Request for Information and Request for Proposals, analyzing the study protocol and project parameters, and subsequently developing or facilitating the development of cost estimate budgets, and performing contract administration activities working with senior leaders in Business Operations.
- When required, the incumbent may also support project management capability development activities, including the development or enhancement of SOPs, project management software, project delivery and control process improvement, and training initiatives.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Support effective and efficient management of projects with activities focused on one or more of the Everest services areas/functional groups: clinical operations, data management, statistics, medical writing, clinical trial technologies (IWRS/IRT and eDiary/ePRO), administration of data monitoring and adjudication committees, pharmacovigilance, and preparation of submissions to regulatory agencies.
- With the guidance of project leadership, ensure successful project team mobilization and communication throughout the project lifespan to ensure and proactively track project milestones, deliverables and overall success. This includes, but is not limited to:

- Integrate information to develop project budgets for each in-scope service, develop and maintain cross-functional project work plans, including identification of resource requirements and utilization, and deliverable timelines.
- Prepare for and facilitate project kick-off meetings (internal and external, as applicable), ensuring dissemination of key project assumptions and information to relevant stakeholders.
- Implement project management tools required to ensure accurate tracking and transparency around project progress, expectations and stakeholders. This may include project communication plans, risk mitigation strategies, statistics and programming tracking sheets, etc.
- Ensure definition of study-specific training requirements and facilitation of core training completion across team. Manage transition of resources appropriately for training and know