Title: Quantitative Senior Project Manager (Freelance)
Job Type: Contractor
Tenure: 3 months
Location: London, UK
This Quantitative Senior Project Manager position is available as a contractor role for an initial 3 months, with the option to extend or potentially join the team on a permanent basis at the end of the contract.
About us:
We invite you to come grow with us.
Research Partnership (part of Inizio Advisory) is one of the world's largest pharma market research and consulting agencies with over 250 researchers, consultants, project managers and support staff. Our teams are located across the globe, in Europe (London, Lyon), North America (New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco) and Asia (Singapore, Delhi).
As individuals with diverse backgrounds, as a team with shared values, as professionals ready to reimagine health and life sciences—you can grow with us at a place that:
- Makes a difference to human health
- Shares values and celebrates progress
- Puts people at the centre of everything
About the team:
The RP Operations team works alongside our Custom and Syndicated research teams to deliver a broad range of qualitative and quantitative (ad hoc and tracking) studies for global pharmaceutical, MedTech and biotech clients to enable them to address product development, marketing, brand, advertising and communications objectives. Our studies are typically multi-market, encompassing respondents in Europe, North America and Emerging Markets.
Each of our research projects will have a dedicated member of the RP Operations team embedded within the core project team for the full project lifecycle, providing project management expertise and guidance throughout. Typically, members of our Operations team will support multiple projects concurrently.
As a Senior Project Manager you will have the opportunity to line manage more junior members of the team, as well as delivering subject specific training programmes across the Operations team. You will also participate in supporting recruitment activities (interviewing candidates) for junior roles within the team.
Your primary role:
The role of the Senior Project Manager is to cost and oversee the set up and management of fieldwork and data collection to ensure successful completion within best practices. You will also be expected to contribute to company operations processes; providing proactive ideas and plans about improving the efficiency of the project management function and projects. Core, but not exclusive, responsibilities will include:
- Responsibility for sourcing, obtaining and negotiating commercially advantageous costs from external suppliers and panel providers for Research Partnership project proposals
- Updating suppliers on the status of their quotes
- Overseeing the smooth running of fieldwork management
- Successful handover and coordination of Data Processing (DP) work and deliverables, based on specs and templates provided by the project team
- Own, coordinate and update project timelines with internal research and external client and supplier stakeholders
- Take ownership for coordinating project team meetings,
- Responsibility for Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Event reporting
- Coordination of client and supplier Statements of Work (SOWs)
- Client and supplier invoice management (PO numbers, invoicing and liaison with Finance team)
About You…
Your skills and experience:
- More than 5 years of experience in market research project management (quantitative research)
- Experience managing healthcare market research projects
- Established relationships with fieldwork agency suppliers
- Strong project management skills (adhering to agreed timelines, troubleshooting and communication with internal and external stakeholders)
- Ability to multitask
- Collaboration and working as part of a team
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Excellent numerical skills
Ideal profile:
- You are proactive, dedicated and enthusiastic, with a ‘can do’ attitude and approach
- You demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, as well as strengths in organisation and prioritisation
- You are a collaborative team player who works well with colleagues
- You communicate ideas and issues in an effective, straightforward fashion
- You are highly motivated and want to seize opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
About Inizio Advisory:
Research Partnership is part of Inizio Advisory, a trusted advisor for health and life science companies that turns science into strategy, supporting execution at every stage of the product and patient journey from early commercialization to launch and beyond. Offering market research and insights; strategy; people and transformation consulting; and commercial benchmarking delivered through sector specific connected solutions and intelligence, Inizio Advisory helps create long-term value for clients and their patients.
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Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
What We Do
Research Partnership, an Inizio Advisory company, is a world-leading market research partner for health and life science companies. We provide custom and syndicated research that delivers actionable insights and recommendations.
Our passionate team is supported by centers of expertise in therapy areas, research methods and geographies. Through innovative design, robust data analysis, and consulting, we provide our clients with insights to make strategic decisions across the product lifecycle, driving commercial success and positive patient outcomes
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