# Senior Director, Project Management Centre of Excellence

**Company**: ICON
**Location**: Blue Bell
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON is seeking a Senior Director, Project Management Centre of Excellence to lead the evolution of ICON's Project Management Office into a federated Project Management Centre of Excellence.

This role will establish the standards, governance, capability framework and enabling infrastructure that support consistent, high-quality clinical project delivery. The successful candidate will create a central hub that defines the quality bar while building a distributed network of certified champions who embed project-management capability within ICON's delivery functions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the strategy, operating model, charter and roadmap for ICON's federated Project Management Centre of Excellence

- Establish and govern enterprise project-management standards, methodologies, processes, templates, systems and certification requirements for clinical trial delivery

- Design and own a role-based competency framework, structured onboarding journey and continuous-learning architecture covering project-leadership roles across the organisation

- Build, train and certify a distributed network of functional champions and subject-matter experts

- Standardise study intake and outtake processes and drive measurable improvements in study start-up, site activation, closeout, quality and cycle-time performance

- Establish governance, adoption measures, scorecards and accountability mechanisms that embed standards across functions, divisions and geographies

- Partner with Quality and Oversight, Governance & Oversight, Data Analytics, Business Transformation, and Digital and AI teams to scale capability, strengthen process effectiveness and demonstrate measurable business value

- Engage senior executives and delivery leaders, positioning project-management capability as a driver of quality, operational performance, sponsor experience and business growth

- Build, lead and develop a high-performing central team

**Requirements:**

- Extensive global clinical trial delivery experience across the full study lifecycle

- Significant senior leadership experience within project management, a PMO or comparable enterprise capability function in a global, matrixed clinical development or CRO environment

- Proven experience designing and owning a role-based competency framework and structured onboarding and continuous-learning pathway for clinical project-leadership roles

- Demonstrated success establishing enterprise project-management standards across functions outside direct line authority

- Experience building and leading a distributed capability network

- Strong working knowledge of ICH-GCP, clinical trial regulatory and quality requirements, inspection readiness and CAPA

- Experience establishing a Project Management Centre of Excellence or leading a significant operating-model transformation

- Experience using learning platforms, analytics, digital or AI-enabled solutions to scale capability and measure effectiveness

- Relevant credentials such as PMP, PgMP, Prosci or continuous-improvement qualifications are an advantage

**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
- clinical trial delivery
- ICH-GCP
- quality requirements
- inspection readiness
- CAPA
- process engineering
- digital solutions
- AI-enabled solutions

### Nice to have
- PMP
- PgMP
- Prosci
- continuous-improvement qualifications

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