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Associate Project Director

London, United Kingdom

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 an Associate Project Director, this will involve working directly with both the Research Directors, as well as with other departments (Finance, IT, Creative) to provide Project Management subject matter expertise.

 

Within the Operations department, members of the team are encouraged to lead subject-matter Pillars, led. These Pillars include initiatives and programmes focusing on Clients, Suppliers, People, Innovation, and Operational Excellence. As an Associate Project Director, you are empowered to take on ownership of a sub-topic within your Pillar and can have responsibility for developing ideas and initiatives relevant to that sub-topic.

 

As an Associate Project Director you will have responsibility for managing a team of Project Managers/Executives. This will involve mentoring, performance management as well as overseeing recruitment activities (interviewing candidates) for roles within your team. You will also be responsible for delivering subject-specific training both within your line management team and the wider Operations team.

 

 

Your primary role:

 

The role of the Associate Project Director 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 of project deliverables to research team:
    • Coordination of Data Processing (DP) work and deliverables, based on specs and templates provided by the project team (Quant-only)
    • Coordination of Qual deliverables, including: Transcripts and/or recordings (notes, videos, audio files) (Qual-only)
  • 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)
  • You will be responsible for overseeing the workloads of your team, and ensuring that projects are properly resourced from a PM standpoint
  • You will own specific sub-topics as a member of one of the department’s Pillars (Clients, Suppliers, People, Innovation, Operational Excellence)

 

About You…

 

Your skills and experience:

 

  • More than 7 years of experience in market research project management (qualitative and/or quantitative research)
  • Experience managing healthcare market research projects
  • Significant experience with team management (including line management and training of a team of junior Project Managers)
  • Established relationships with fieldwork agency suppliers
  • Strong project management skills (adhering to agreed timelines, troubleshooting and communication with internal and external stakeholders)
  • Confident liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience working directly with end-clients would be advantageous
  • Excellent numerical skills

 

Ideal profile:

  • You are proactive, dedicated and enthusiastic, with a ‘can do’ attitude and approach
  • You demonstrate commercial and analytical capabilities
  • You demonstrate a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, as well as strengths in organisation and prioritisation
  • You demonstrate a track record of identifying operational efficiencies
  • 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

 

Life at Research Partnership:

 

We love what we do and continuously strive for innovation and creativity. We believe everyone should continuously be learning and provide:

 

  • A comprehensive training and development programme for all staff, from entry level apprentice to senior management
  • A relaxed and friendly working environment
  • Social events - including a summer day out and end-of-year party, along with regular social events after office hours
  • Fundraising and charity events – we support Forever Angels, a children's charity whose aim is to care for abandoned babies in Tanzania, Africa, as well as the local charity, Fulham Good Neighbours

 

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.

 

Further information:

 

This is a full-time role, working in a hybrid pattern (2 days per week in the office) at our fantastic HQ location in Fulham Green, directly opposite Putney Bridge in London, which boasts free state-of-the-art gym with showers, on-site café, panoramic river views, landscaped gardens and regular social events.

 

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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.

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