Senior Project Manager- Life Sciences Research Services

Oracle Life Sciences Research Services helps life sciences organizations transform complex healthcare data into actionable evidence by combining real-world data, advanced analytics, innovative technology, and scientific research expertise. We partner with customers across all therapeutic areas to generate evidence that informs critical decisions throughout the product lifecycle—from early clinical development through commercialization—ultimately improving healthcare outcomes worldwide.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will serve as the operational delivery leader for complex research consulting engagements, partnering closely with the Evidence & Insights Leader (or Clinical Study Manager, where applicable) to deliver successful customer outcomes. While scientific leadership is provided by the Evidence & Insights Leader, you will own operational execution, financial performance, governance, resource coordination, and project delivery across the full project lifecycle. Success in this role requires balancing customer expectations, contractual commitments, operational excellence, and financial performance while leading cross-functional teams through complex, multi-workstream engagements.

This role requires a highly collaborative leader who excels in a matrixed environment, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing project financials, mitigating risks, and driving operational excellence. You will oversee project governance, forecasting, resource planning, financial performance, reporting, and stakeholder communications while partnering with Domain and Center of Excellence teams to deliver high-quality research solutions.

Beyond project execution, you will play a key role in advancing the Research Services Project Management capability by driving continuous improvement, standardizing delivery processes, developing reusable documentation and best practices, and identifying opportunities to responsibly adopt AI-enabled capabilities and automation that improve delivery quality, operational efficiency, and business performance.

Success in this position requires a disciplined, data-driven leader who combines strong business acumen with exceptional project execution, continuously identifying opportunities to improve delivery quality, operational efficiency, customer satisfaction, and organizational maturity.

• Strong understanding of project governance, risk management, quality management, and project delivery methodologies.

• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects while balancing competing customer priorities, operational requirements, and financial objectives.

• Experience managing cross-time zone project teams in N. America and Europe.

Required Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements across the full project lifecycle while balancing customer expectations, project execution, financial performance, and business objectives.

• Excellent project leadership, organization, and execution skills, with the ability to successfully manage multiple concurrent projects in a highly matrixed environment.

• Strong financial acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability analysis, resource utilization, financial risk management, and operational performance metrics.

• Strong business systems aptitude with experience leveraging enterprise project management, financial management, reporting, and business intelligence platforms to support operational execution and data-driven decision-making.

• Demonstrated experience developing and standardizing project management methodologies, documentation, templates, playbooks, governance artifacts, and operating procedures that improve delivery consistency, organizational maturity, and scalability.

• Passion for operational excellence and continuous improvement, with experience simplifying and standardizing delivery processes and responsibly adopting AI-enabled capabilities, automation, and digital technologies to improve project execution and organizational effectiveness.

• Exceptional communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across customers, executive leadership, technical teams, and cross-functional organizations.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to proactively identify risks, establish appropriate governance, drive accountability, and implement effective solutions.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities while consistently delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP®), Agile, or equivalent project management certification.

• Experience using Oracle Project Financial Management (PFM), Project Status & Resource Scheduling (PSRS), or comparable enterprise project management platforms.

• Experience delivering Life Sciences consulting projects involving clinical research, commercial strategy, market access, regulatory affairs, drug safety, or real-world evidence.

• Experience applying Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, or other continuous improvement methodologies.

• Experience implementing or supporting AI-enabled tools, automation, workflow optimization, or digital transformation initiatives within consulting or project delivery organizations.

• Experience supporting global consulting organizations and collaborating with geographically distributed teams across multiple business functions and time zones.

Personal Attributes

• Passionate about delivering exceptional customer outcomes and building trusted client relationships.

• Passionate about continuous improvement, operational excellence, and creating scalable delivery practices.

• Curious and innovative with a willingness to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that improve project delivery and organizational performance.

• Highly organized, collaborative, and adaptable in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Strong financial mindset with the ability to balance customer success, operational execution, and business performance.

• Demonstrates ownership, accountability, sound judgment, and a commitment to delivering measurable business value through disciplined project execution.

• Demonstrates intellectual curiosity and proactively identifies opportunities to improve project delivery through innovation, standardization, and emerging technologies.

• Maintains a disciplined, data-driven approach to execution while balancing customer needs, business objectives, and operational excellence.

• Demonstrates resilience, adaptability and a continuous learning mindset while leading through change and driving operational excellence.

Operational Execution & Delivery Management

• Lead project initiation activities, including project kickoff, operational planning, resource planning, and execution readiness.

• Develop comprehensive project execution strategies, resource plans, communication plans, and governance structures that establish projects for successful delivery.

• Lead end-to-end operational execution from project initiation through closeout.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.

• Ensure delivery aligns with approved scope, contractual commitments, quality standards, and customer expectations.

• Partner with the Evidence & Insights Leader to co-lead successful project delivery.

• Ensure all project workstreams remain aligned to an integrated delivery plan throughout the project lifecycle.

Financial & Contract Management

• Own project budgets, forecasting, financial reporting, revenue recognition, profitability, and expense management.

• Drive accurate project forecasting, billing readiness, revenue realization, and financial reporting throughout project execution. Monitor project financial performance throughout execution, proactively identifying forecast variances, resource constraints, and margin risks while implementing corrective actions to maintain project profitability.

• Monitor project financial health, proactively identifying risks and opportunities to improve margin performance.

• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, scope management, and change control processes.

• Partner with Business Analyst to proactively identify financial risks, margin erosion, and forecasting variances while recommending corrective actions.

Governance, Risk & Issue Management

• Establish and maintain effective project governance throughout the project lifecycle.

• Proactively identify, assess, mitigate, and communicate project risks and issues.

• Lead project status reporting, governance reviews, decision logs, and executive communications.

• Escalate critical risks and issues to the Evidence & Insights Leader and Research Director as appropriate.

• Maintain RAID logs, decision registers, action trackers, and governance artifacts that provide complete visibility into project health.

• Facilitate recurring project governance reviews, operational delivery meetings, and financial reviews to ensure alignment, timely decision-making, and proactive issue resolution.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Coordinate Domain, Center of Excellence, Operations, and third-party contributors to ensure successful execution.

• Build trusted partnerships with customers, Domain leaders, Centers of Excellence, Sales, Operations, Finance, Compliance, and external vendors to ensure successful project execution.

• Manage cross-functional dependencies, resource planning, timelines, and project handoffs.

• Drive accountability across all contributors while maintaining a single integrated delivery plan.

• Foster collaboration across functional organizations by establishing clear roles, responsibilities, communication cadences, and shared accountability for successful project outcomes.

Systems, Process Standardization & Continuous Improvement

• Maintain project data integrity across Oracle project management and financial systems including PFM, PSRS, and related enterprise applications.

• Produce executive dashboards and operational reporting that enable data-driven project decisions.

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve project management documentation, templates, governance artifacts, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.

• Capture lessons learned and convert them into reusable best practices that improve delivery quality across Research Services.

• Champion standardization of project delivery processes across domains to improve consistency, efficiency, scalability, and customer outcomes.

• Identify, evaluate, and responsibly implement AI-enabled capabilities, intelligent automation, and digital project management tools that improve project execution, forecasting, reporting, documentation, and operational efficiency.

• Analyze operational and financial performance trends to generate actionable insights that improve project execution, delivery consistency, and overall business performance.

Customer Success

• Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders throughout project execution.

• Manage customer expectations through proactive communication, risk management, and transparent reporting.

• Drive customer satisfaction by ensuring consistent execution, quality delivery, and operational excellence.

• Partner with the Evidence & Insights Leader to maintain customer confidence throughout project delivery.

Knowledge Management

• Capture lessons learned, reusable assets, and project artifacts that improve organizational knowledge and delivery maturity.

• Share best practices across the global Project Management community