Manager, Project Quality & Risk Management

​ Due to a growing portfolio, we are currently looking for an experienced Manager, Project Quality & Risk Management.

This role could be either office orhome based in any of the following locations: Israel, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Spain. The offices for given locations are all open planned, and you will be working in an innovative and collaborative environment with your international peers and colleagues. 

Provide leadership and management to other Project Quality & Risk Management staff. Innovate andimplement quality improvement opportunities at the project, client, operational, department, or cross-department level.

Key Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with senior leadership to implement strategy and direction for PQRM staff.
• Contribute to and support PQRMspecific risk management utilizing all available tools/dashboards.
• Oversee and support PQRM staff to comply with Parexel standards and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Quality Assurance to oversee and support audits & inspections, representing Parexel Quality when requested, and serving as an escalation point for critical issues.
• Provide solutions-focused quality consulting.
• Develop and cultivate transparent quality relationships, while managing expectations with client qualityrepresentatives, including when needed fulfilling the role of Portfolio Quality and Risk Lead.
• Attract, recruit, retain, and develop PQRM staff.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement of the Quality Management System by submitting feedback on processes, and participating in the process improvement initiatives as requested.
• Maintain compliance with Parexel standards
• Mentor and develop PQRLs

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills, including verbal and written communication, active listening, providing constructive feedback, and facilitating group discussions.
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to develop relationships and partnerships, build rapport, persuade and influence teams, motivate others, manage performance, and develop talent.
• Expert project manager with strong organizational and planning skills, and competency in risk management with thoughtful action planning.
• Personal awareness and emotionally intelligent, ability to self-motivate, innovate, delegate, and manage time as well as taking ownership and accountability for deliverables.
• Robust Skills in interpreting, synthesizing, inferring, evaluating, and extracting pertinent data to identify areas of risk, trends, and aggregated issues.
• Highly Adaptable to changing environments, able to think quickly, able to deal with ambiguity, and learn new tasks applying routine knowledge.
• Quality-oriented with an attention to detail, taking initiative, ownership, and accountability for deliverables.
• Expertise to manage the complexity of a matrix environment while valuing the importance of teamwork.
• Ability to travel 10%- 15%

Knowledge and Experience:

• experience in clinical research
• experience managing people
• Expertise in ICH-GxPs
• English proficiency (written and oral)

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or other relevant experience required. Life science or other health-related discipline preferred.
• Master’s Degree in a science, technology, or industry-related disciple preferred.

In return we will be able to offer you a structured career pathway and encouragement to develop within the role including awareness and understanding of the industry.  You will be well supported and for your hard work you will be rewarded with a competitive base salary as well as a benefits package including holiday as well as other benefits that you would expect with a top company in the CRO Industry. Apply today to begin your Parexel journey!