# Senior Project Manager, PM Strategy and Operations

**Company**: ICON
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is seeking a Senior Project Manager, PM Strategy and Operations to lead high-impact internal projects and strategic initiatives across the IMC Project Management organization.

The Senior Project Manager will partner with Project Management leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to drive operational excellence, support commercial and business development activities, provide financial reporting and analysis, and lead integration and process improvement initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Commercial & Business Development Support**

- Support commercial activities including RFPs, RFIs, proposal development, and budget reviews.

- Provide Project Management and operational expertise to help ensure proposed solutions, budgets, assumptions, timelines, and resource requirements are operationally sound.

- Partner with Business Development, Finance, and other internal stakeholders to support opportunity planning and proposal development.

- Identify operational, financial, resource, and execution risks and recommend appropriate solutions.

- Support internal preparation for bid defenses, capability presentations, and other Business Development activities.

**Financial Reporting & Analysis**

- Develop and facilitate regular Project Profitability processes and governance.

- Support financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis across the Project Management organization.

- Analyze financial and operational performance to identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.

- Partner with Finance and Project Management leadership to investigate variances and support development of appropriate action plans.

- Evaluate the financial impact of operational decisions and provide actionable insights to support leadership decision-making.

- Support continuous improvement of financial reporting, forecasting accuracy, and financial visibility.

**Strategic Project Management & Operational Excellence**

- Lead and coordinate complex internal projects and strategic initiatives, establishing clear plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and accountabilities.

- Support integration, organizational change, and other cross-functional initiatives impacting Project Management.

- Lead and support process improvement activities focused on increasing efficiency, consistency, standardization, and operational effectiveness.

- Develop and implement improved workflows, tools, processes, and ways of working in partnership with key stakeholders.

- Provide support as requested with clear reporting, analysis, recommendations, and visibility to progress, risks, and outcomes.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business administration, life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

- Significant project management experience within a complex, cross-functional organization preferably in clinical trials or pharmaceutical industry.

- Demonstrated experience leading strategic, operational, integration, or process-improvement initiatives.

- Experience with financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.

- Advanced to expert proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including PivotTables, complex formulas, data validation and analysis, financial and resource tracking, forecasting, and development of project-level and portfolio-level reporting.

- Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to influence and drive results across functions without formal reporting authority.

- Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.

**Rewards & Benefits**

- Competitive base salary and performance-related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- financial reporting
- budgeting
- forecasting
- Microsoft Excel
- analytical skills
- communication skills
- influence and drive results

### Nice to have
- PMP
- clinical trials
- pharmaceutical industry
- RFPs
- RFIs
- proposal development
- budget reviews

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