# Project Vendor Manager

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

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## Description

At IQVIA, our Project Vendor Managers play a critical role in the successful delivery of global clinical trials.

Working at the intersection of project leadership, vendor strategy and study execution, you'll partner with sponsors, third-party providers and cross-functional teams to ensure vendor services are delivered efficiently, compliantly and with a relentless focus on quality, timelines and patient impact.

**What You'll Be Doing**

As a key member of the project leadership team, you'll be responsible for the strategic oversight and operational management of third-party vendors supporting global clinical trials.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead third-party vendor oversight across global and regional clinical studies, serving as the primary point of contact for vendors and internal stakeholders

- Drive vendor selection, qualification and onboarding activities in alignment with study requirements and IQVIA processes

- Develop and maintain Vendor Management Plans to support successful study delivery

- Monitor vendor performance against contracted scope, timelines, quality standards, deliverables and budget commitments

- Proactively identify and manage vendor-related risks, issues and contingencies, implementing corrective actions as needed

- Lead vendor governance activities, including performance reviews, escalations and continuous improvement initiatives

- Own vendor management deliverables and ensure effective collaboration between sponsors, suppliers and project teams

- Review and oversee vendor budgets, forecasts, purchase orders and invoices to support effective financial management

- Partner with Clinical Project Managers and cross-functional teams to achieve study milestones and resolve operational challenges

- Support change control activities related to vendor scope, budgets and contracted services

- Leverage IQVIA affiliate capabilities and internal services to optimize study delivery

- Capture lessons learned and share best practices to enhance vendor performance and project outcomes

**What We're Looking For**

- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Healthcare or a related scientific discipline

- 3+ years of clinical research experience within a CRO, biotechnology, pharmaceutical or healthcare environment

- Experience managing third-party vendors, suppliers, affiliates or outsourced services supporting clinical research studies

- Understanding of vendor selection, qualification, governance and performance management processes

- Experience developing and executing Vendor Management Plans and ensuring delivery against contractual commitments

- Strong knowledge of clinical trial conduct, ICH-GCP guidelines and applicable regulatory requirements

- Experience managing vendor-related risks, issue resolution and contingency planning within complex study environments

- Knowledge of project financials, including budget management, forecasting, purchase orders and invoice review

- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective relationships across sponsors, vendors and global project teams

- Excellent communication, presentation and problem-solving skills

- Strong organizational and prioritization abilities with the capability to manage multiple competing demands

- Experience working across geographies and cultures within a global environment

- Familiarity with technology, reporting tools and AI-enabled solutions that support operational decision-making and project delivery

- Passion for improving clinical trial execution and advancing better outcomes for patients worldwide

## Skills

### Required
- Life Sciences
- Healthcare
- clinical research
- vendor management
- project leadership
- stakeholder management
- communication
- problem-solving
- organizational skills

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