Project Manager – Mandarin Speaking

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Singapore.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and finalize early-phase clinical research initiatives.

• Lead and oversee cross-functional project teams.

• Manage communications with clients, project finances, budgets, scopes, forecasts, and invoicing.

• Ensure that projects achieve their objectives, adhere to timelines and budgets, and comply with GCP standards, regulatory requirements, and SOPs.

• Mentor and guide junior project management personnel or Clinical Delivery Leads.

• Create project plans and associated project management documentation.

• Oversee feasibility assessments, site selection, vendor choice, and site setup.

• Track project progress, milestones, deliverables, staffing, and timelines.

• Organize project administration, study management committee meetings, newsletters, and stakeholder reports.

• Motivate teams and vendors to produce clean, accurate, and verifiable data.

• Review and approve monitoring visit reports.

• Ensure that patient safety reporting and adverse event reporting meet regulatory standards.

• Manage study start-up activities, ethics and regulatory submissions, investigator meetings, monitoring plans, and trial management systems.

• Coordinate study close-out visits, clinical supply reconciliation, and final document archiving.

• Guarantee data quality, completeness, query resolution, and compliance with protocols, SOPs, regulations, and ICH-GCP.

• Analyze financial reports, maintain forecasts and gross margins, and manage scope adjustments and billing.

• Foster relationships with sponsors, hospitals, investigators, professional societies, vendors, and internal stakeholders.

• Participate in or lead bid defense presentations.

• Ensure project quality management, audit and inspection readiness, file review compliance, and quality control.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a science or related field.

• Prior experience in clinical projects within an academic, CRO, or pharmaceutical setting.

• Approximately seven (7) years of industry experience is recommended, including 1–2 years in Project Management.

• Proficiency in Mandarin is essential.

• Prior experience as a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) is preferred, along with site management, trial coordination, or relevant industry experience.

• Experience in managing early-phase and healthy volunteer studies is advantageous, though not required.

• Familiarity with managing projects across single or multiple regions, various therapeutic indications, full-service studies, and early-phase clinical trials.

• Strong knowledge of ICH/GCP and relevant regulations and guidelines.

• Previous experience with client-facing interactions and/or client management.

• Experience in project finance management.

• Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, communication, and team leadership abilities.

• Capability to lead virtual teams in a cross-cultural context and manage conflicts effectively.

• Must be available to work during APAC hours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Purpose-driven work contributing to clinical trials focused on renal, cardiometabolic, and oncology therapies.

• Flexible hybrid or remote working arrangements, depending on location and role.

• Customized salary and benefits package.

• Access to learning opportunities and a global network of scientific leaders.

• Employee wellbeing programs that promote work-life balance, health, and team connection.

• Participation in global engagement surveys.

• Recognition programs.

• Team-building events.

• Opportunities to work on diverse projects and clients through an international reach.