Healthcare Project Manager

About the role

DelRicht Research is seeking an experienced Healthcare Project Manager to guide our team responsible for preparing new clinical trials for successful activation and execution across our growing site network. This role combines clinical expertise, project management, quality oversight, and people leadership. The Clinical Research Team Lead will help ensure that study resources, internal project plans, and site handoffs are completed accurately and on time. You will work closely with internal site operations, sponsors, Clinical Research Organizations, and DelRicht’s centralized departments to identify barriers early, communicate realistic timelines, and position our sites for rapid activation and successful patient enrollment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Study Projects During the Initial Launch of the Trial: manage study start-up activities, establish and maintain accurate activation timelines, maintain detailed project plans, identify study-specific barriers, dependencies, and trial-limiting factors early, monitor study activation, first patient screening, first patient visits, and first randomization milestones.
• Lead and Develop the Team: provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and support to assigned coordinators; conduct and document consistent one-on-one meetings; set clear quarterly performance and development goals; recognize high performers and create growth opportunities; address performance concerns directly, fairly, and promptly; support formal performance reviews and improvement plans; assess team capacity and communicate resource or bandwidth concerns; support hiring, onboarding, and training of new team members; ensure training materials and competency packets are completed accurately and on time; identify opportunities to improve or expand department’s processes and capabilities.
• Partner With Sponsors and Clients: represent DelRicht professionally in written, verbal, and virtual client interactions; confirm expectations, activation timelines, milestones, and required next steps with sponsors and stakeholders; help facilitate site introductions and early connections between site teams and Clinical Research Associates; provide responsive, service-oriented communication throughout the startup process; escalate concerns internally before they become external issues; communicate significant client requests or escalations to appropriate team members within one business day; ask thoughtful questions and clarify unknowns before making assumptions.
• Maintain Quality and Compliance: ensure all startup resources align with the protocol and client-provided materials; maintain complete, accurate, and audit-ready study documentation; directly review resources before scheduled handoffs and build sufficient review time into project plans; balance urgency with accuracy, compliance, and participant safety; track errors and trends, provide retraining, and implement corrective actions when needed; hold team members accountable for following established processes consistently.
• Collaborate Across DelRicht: build strong working relationships across all teams; communicate known or suspected protocol concerns to appropriate team members; identify site, study, and process trends and communicate them proactively; include site teams in decisions that affect their workflows and study execution; provide accurate, timely information that enables other teams to plan effectively; create a positive, solutions-oriented experience in every interaction.
• What Success Looks Like: consistently deliver milestones within established expectations; position DelRicht sites to activate and begin screening quickly; ensure startup materials are finalized before handoff without delaying first patient visits; maintain accurate project plans and internal trackers; prevent repeat errors and protocol deviations through strong oversight and ret