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