Associate Start-up Project Manager at Covance

Job Overview

Discover new opportunities to grow your career as a Covance FSP Associate Start-Up Project Manager.
Covance FSP are looking to hire a Associate Start-Up Project Manager in South Africa. In this position you will be fully dedicated to our sponsor and you will be working office based. At Covance, you can redefine what is possible and discover your extraordinary potential within our Functional Service Provider team (FSP).
As a Covance employee dedicated to an FSP project you will bring your specialized discipline to a core team working directly with one sponsor. Whether your specialization is in clinical monitoring, clinical project management, data management, biometrics or pharmacovigilance Covance has an FSP opportunity to match your area of expertise.

Each FSP offers a unique opportunity to be a part of the drug development cycle and see a product through to launch. We have multiple partnerships giving you the variety and the flexibility to stay with sponsors, try a new external secondment or work in house on Covance studies.

With the support of exceptional people and an energized purpose, you’ll be empowered to own your career journey with dedicated mentoring, training and personalized development planning.

Responsibilities

• Assignment of site numbers
• Identification of patients documents required for translation
• Assessment of local sourcing availability of drug
• Start-up timelines estimation
• Oversight and coordination of CTC tasks during validation (support)
• Coordination of collection of site documents required for EC/HA submission
• Local ICF adaptation
• Review and adaptation of patient recruitment and retention materials
• Recruitment materials –
• Cooperation and support of contract/financial team during contracting process
• Providing update to study team members, i.e. CRM, CRAs, RCPM, CTC regarding current start-up status
• Local IMP, drug and non-clinical supplies management

Education/Qualifications:

• University/college degree (life science preferred), or certification in a related allied health profession from an appropriately accredited institution, nursing certification, medical or laboratory technology

Experience:

• Good organizational and time management skills
• Working knowledge of ICH, FDA, local regulatory requirements, IRB/IEC and other applicable regulations/guidelines; familiarity with investigator start up documents; previous interaction with operational project team and investigative sites preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, oral and written.
• Self-motivation with the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Works well independently as well as in team environment.
• Detail and process oriented
• Positive attitude and approach
• Interact with internal and external customers with high degree of professionalism and discretion
• Multi-tasking capability.
• Good computer skills with good working knowledge of a range of computer packages
• Ability to lead and develop junior staff
• Flexible and adaptable to a developing work environment
   

Covance is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer