Senior Clinical Research Operations Project Manager - Clinical Trials Office

Job Description

The Clinical Trials Office (CTO) has an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Clinical Research Operations Project Manager to join their team.

Reporting to the CTO Senior Director, the Senior Clinical Research Operations Project Manager (Project Manager) serves as a strategic leader responsible for planning, managing, and executing enterprise-level initiatives that advance clinical research program operations across UW Medicine. This role independently manages a portfolio of high-priority projects involving multiple operations units, stakeholder groups, technologies, and governance structures with the goal of enhancing efficiency, regulatory compliance, operations excellence, and research service delivery.

You will join a highly collaborative environment where your ability to connect people, data, and strategy will make an institution-wide impact. As a trusted advisor to leaders and partners, you will translate complex operational needs into clear plans, build alignment across diverse groups, and lead meaningful change.

• Independently manage a portfolio of enterprise-level clinical research operational initiatives from project conception through implementation and evaluation.
• Lead highly complex projects involving multiple departments, operational units, technologies, and stakeholder groups.
• Develop project charters, business cases, governance structures, work plans, timelines, risk mitigation strategies, and implementation plans.
• Establish project priorities and ensure alignment with Clinical Trials Office and UW Medicine strategic objectives.

• Facilitate institutional committees, governance groups, steering committees, and stakeholder working groups supporting clinical research operations.
• Serve as a representative of the CTO in institutional discussions related to operational strategy, process improvement, technology initiatives, and organizational change.

• Lead organizational change initiatives associated with new policies, technologies, workflows, operational models, and strategic priorities.
• Assess change impacts and develop stakeholder engagement, communication, training, and adoption strategies.

• Develop and maintain operational metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and reporting tools to assess organizational performance and project outcomes.
• Analyze clinical research operational data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and areas for process improvement.

• Provide consultation and project leadership for operational initiatives across the clinical research lifecycle.
• Support implementation of new systems, technologies, and operational processes.

To be considered for this opportunity your application must demonstrate you meet both the minimum qualifications and additional qualifications listed below. Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Health Administration, Public Health, Clinical Research, Life Sciences, Information Systems, or a related field, plus five years of progressively responsible experience in project management, research administration, healthcare operations, or clinical research management.
• Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.

Applicants who do not meet these qualifications WILL NOT be forwarded to the Hiring Manager.

• Demonstrated experience independently managing enterprise-level initiatives and leading organizational change initiatives.
• Experience facilitating governance committees, steering committees, or executive work groups and successfully building consensus and influencing stakeholders without direct…