Senior Project Manager- Life Sciences Research Services

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About the team
As a Senior Project Manager, you will serve as the operational delivery leader for complex research consulting engagements, partnering closely with the Evidence & Insights Leader (or Clinical Study Manager, where applicable) to deliver successful customer outcomes. While scientific leadership is provided by the Evidence & Insights Leader, you will own operational execution, financial performance, governance, resource coordination, and project delivery across the full project lifecycle. Success in this role requires balancing customer expectations, contractual commitments, operational excellence, and financial performance while leading cross-functional teams through complex, multi-workstream engagements.
Description
Oracle Life Sciences Research Services helps life sciences organizations transform complex healthcare data into actionable evidence by combining real-world data, advanced analytics, innovative technology, and scientific research expertise. We partner with customers across all therapeutic areas to generate evidence that informs critical decisions throughout the product lifecycle-from early clinical development through commercialization-ultimately improving healthcare outcomes worldwide.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will serve as the operational delivery leader for complex research consulting engagements, partnering closely with the Evidence & Insights Leader (or Clinical Study Manager, where applicable) to deliver successful customer outcomes. While scientific leadership is provided by the Evidence & Insights Leader, you will own operational execution, financial performance, governance, resource coordination, and project delivery across the full project lifecycle. Success in this role requires balancing customer expectations, contractual commitments, operational excellence, and financial performance while leading cross-functional teams through complex, multi-workstream engagements.
This role requires a highly collaborative leader who excels in a matrixed environment, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing project financials, mitigating risks, and driving operational excellence. You will oversee project governance, forecasting, resource planning, financial performance, reporting, and stakeholder communications while partnering with Domain and Center of Excellence teams to deliver high-quality research solutions.
Beyond project execution, you will play a key role in advancing the Research Services Project Management capability by driving continuous improvement, standardizing delivery processes, developing reusable documentation and best practices, and identifying opportunities to responsibly adopt AI-enabled capabilities and automation that improve delivery quality, operational efficiency, and business performance.
Success in this position requires a disciplined, data-driven leader who combines strong business acumen with exceptional project execution, continuously identifying opportunities to improve delivery quality, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and organizational maturity.
Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10 years of progressive experience in project management, consulting, professional services, or Life Sciences research delivery.

• Demonstrated success managing complex consulting engagements throughout the entire project lifecycle.

• Strong experience delivering projects within the Life Sciences industry, including research, clinical development, commercial, market access, real-world evidence, regulatory, safety, or related healthcare domains.

• Proven ability to manage project financials, including forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability, budgeting, resource planning, and expense management.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders in a highly matrixed global organization.

• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, quality management, and project delivery methodologies.

• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects while balancing competing customer priorities, operational requirements, and financial objectives.

• Experience managing cross-time zone project teams in N. America and Europe.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements across the full project lifecycle while balancing customer expectations, project execution, financial performance, and business objectives.

• Excellent project leadership, organization, and execution skills, with the ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects in a highly matrixed environment.

• Strong financial acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability analysis, resource utilization, financial risk management, and operational performance metrics.

• Strong business systems aptitude with experience leveraging enterprise project management, financial management, reporting, and business intelligence platforms to support operational execution and data-driven decision-making.

• Demonstrated experience developing and standardizing project management methodologies, documentation, templates, playbooks, governance artifacts, and operating procedures that improve delivery consistency, organizational maturity, and scalability.

• Passion for operational excellence and continuous improvement, with experience simplifying and standardizing delivery processes and responsibly adopting AI-enabled capabilities, automation, and digital technologies to improve project execution and organizational effectiveness.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across customers, executive leadership, technical teams, and cross-functional organizations.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to proactively identify risks, establish appropriate governance, drive accountability, and implement effective solutions.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities while consistently delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP ), Agile, or equivalent project management certification.

• Experience using Oracle Project Financial Management (PFM), Project Status & Resource Scheduling (PSRS), or comparable enterprise project management platforms.

• Experience delivering Life Sciences consulting projects involving clinical research, commercial strategy, market access, regulatory affairs, drug safety, or real-world evidence.

• Experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or other continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience implementing or supporting AI-enabled tools, automation, workflow optimization, or digital transformation initiatives within consulting or project delivery organizations.

• Experience supporting global consulting organizations and collaborating with geographically distributed teams across multiple business functions and time zones.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about delivering exceptional customer outcomes and building trusted client relationships.

• Passionate about continuous improvement, operational excellence, and creating scalable delivery practices.

• Curious and innovative with a willingness to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that improve project delivery and organizational performance.

• Highly organized, collaborative, and adaptable in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Strong financial mindset with the ability to balance customer success, operational execution, and business performance.

• Demonstrates ownership, accountability, sound judgment, and a commitment to delivering measurable business value through disciplined project execution.

• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and proactively identifies opportunities to improve project delivery through innovation, standardization, and emerging technologies.

• Maintains a disciplined, data-driven approach to execution while balancing customer needs, business objectives, and operational excellence.

• Demonstrates resilience, adaptability and a continuous learning mindset while leading through change and driving operational excellence.

Responsibilities
Operational Execution & Delivery Management

• Lead project initiation activities, including project kickoff, operational planning, resource planning, and execution readiness.

• Develop comprehensive project execution strategies, resource plans, communication plans, and governance structures that establish projects for successful delivery.

• Lead end-to-end operational execution from project initiation through closeout.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.

• Ensure delivery aligns with approved scope, contractual commitments, quality standards, and customer expectations.

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