Vice President, Project Leadership

Job Listing ID:

4495198

Job Title:

Vice President, Project Leadership Application Deadline:

Open Until Filled

Job Location:

Salem

Date Posted:

05/20/2026

Hours Worked Per Week:

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Either Full or Part Time, more than 6 months You may contact this employer directly. (Obtain the contact information to print or add to your jobs.)

Job Summary:

The Vice President of Project Leadership is a strategic leader tasked to: create a working environment that demands discipline across all aspects of project delivery; establish a team of leaders with emotional intelligence, and a desire for authentic working relationships. Engages with Department Senior Leadership as a strategic advisor. Success in this role is measured by the delivery of clinical services across the portfolio of studies managed by their Directors and Project Leaders in the areas of finance, utilization, quality, compliance, and delivery.

Key Accountabilities :

Operational Delivery Project Delivery Set expectations and hold Directors and Project Teams accountable to agreed project milestones and key deliverables. Intervene when projects are signaling to head off course. Challenge and support Directors and Project Leaders to maintain and evolve a robust operational plan. Seek out commonalities across the portfolio where best practices and knowledge sharing can be leveraged. Finance Management Maintain targets for profitability, margin expansion, cash flow, and contractual coverage across all projects within the portfolio. Interrogate financial data and the associated relationship with operational delivery. Partner with Project Finance to analyze trends and consistent business practice that can be broadly applied not only to the projects within their portfolio, but also to the benefit of region or business segment. Operational Data Compliance and Analytics Drive teams to comply with data entry and accuracy. Leverage data and analytics for standard and consistent reporting. Advocate for the Department by engaging with supporting business functions when practical use of systems and processes reveal areas for improved efficiency and/or effectiveness. Risk Management Participate in Risk Governance. Perform routine surveillance of the portfolio to identify risk trends. Facilitate the awareness of these trends across the Department. Act as a sounding board for Directors and Project Leaders with particularly complicated scenarios. Quality Oversight Participate in Quality Governance. Promote a holistic view of project quality and assess impact on patients, customers, investigators, and key stakeholders. Communication Establish a strong network with cross-functional peers. Hold one another accountable for the functional contributions to project delivery. Partner with Commercial Leadership to be aware of customer insights, opportunities for growth, market dynamics, and visibility to NBA. Promote a culture of direct, purposeful and timely communication in all forms. Line Management Manage Employee Performance aligned to Parexel's Talent Philosophy Establish year-round, continuous performance feedback through goal setting, scheduled checkpoints and performance review. Strive for excellence with direct reports in project performance and personnel development to strengthen overall project delivery and employee satisfaction. Strategic Resource Management Participate in a robust resource strategy in collaboration with Resource Management, Commercial Leadership, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Department Senior Leadership Liaise between the above-mentioned stakeholders and Directors of Project Management responsible for hiring to ensure the resource strategy is executed ac...

Job Classification:

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Salary:

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Experience Required:

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Education Required:

None

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