Project Manager – Cell & Gene Therapy; Sponsor Dedicated - US Remote; Preference Hybrid L

Project Manager I – Cell & Gene Therapy (Sponsor Dedicated - US Remote; Preference for Hybrid Los Angeles, CA)

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Location: Remote, GA, United States
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Description

Project Manager I – Cell & Gene Therapy (Sponsor Dedicated - US Remote; Preference for Hybrid Los Angeles, CA)

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Our Clinical Solutions team members act with a drug development mindset, applying their years of experience and deep expertise to truly understand customer needs and represent those in the solutions we shape.

Whether you join us in a Functional Service Provider partnership or a Full-Service environment, you’ll collaborate with passionate problem solvers, innovating as a team to help our customers achieve their goals. We are agile and driven to deliver – for one another, our customers, and, most importantly, for those in need.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

Location: strongly prefer candidates located near our sponsor’s Los Angeles office (near Westwood neighborhood/ UCLA campus )

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Project Manager I to join our sponsor-dedicated team supporting high-impact oncology and cell & gene therapy trials
, including CAR-T studies
. In this role, you will work full-time on behalf of a leading biopharmaceutical sponsor while employed within a global CRO—offering the best of both worlds: sponsor collaboration and CRO resources.

This position focuses on early-phase trial execution, operational oversight, and cross-functional coordination across global study teams. While remote work is supported, we strongly prefer candidates located near our sponsor’s Los Angeles office (near Westwood neighborhood/ UCLA campus ) to allow for periodic in-office collaboration and faster integration with the sponsor team.

• Act as a sponsor-facing project manager
  , ensuring the successful execution of assigned CAR-T and gene therapy trials from startup through closeout.
• Lead or support study start-up, site activation, and enrollment
  , working closely with site monitors, regulatory teams, and contracts personnel.
• Serve as a key point of contact across internal (CRO) and sponsor teams, facilitating regular communications, status reporting, and governance updates.
• Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timelines, budgets, and milestones are met, particularly in complex, high-touch studies
  .
• Track and manage protocol compliance
  , CAPAs
  , and site-level quality indicators
  ; support resolution of audit findings.
• Ensure inspection readiness and regulatory compliance by overseeing TMF maintenance
  , data accuracy, and documentation completeness.
• Manage or contribute to the tracking of low-stability endpoint samples and IP-related processes, ensuring timely lab delivery and site support.
• Assist with risk identification and mitigation planning
  , while continuously optimizing trial execution processes.

• 2–4 years of clinical trial…