Vice President, Project Management

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, India).

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 center of everything

About the role and team: 

The Vice President, Project Management role is a newly-created leadership position within Research Partnership, and will play a pivotal role in developing and transforming our Project Management and Fieldwork functions across our US offices. This position will work collaboratively with other senior stakeholders across the business to ensure that the Project Management and Fieldwork functions evolve to support the commercial priorities of the business.

The RP Project Management and Fieldwork team currently consists of over 30 project managers and fieldwork executives globally. The teams work alongside our custom research teams to deliver a mixture 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 Project Management or Fieldwork team embedded within the core project team for the full project lifecycle, providing project management expertise and guidance throughout, including taking ownership of client communications through the project lifecycle. Typically, members of our Project Management team will support multiple projects concurrently.

Your primary role: 

As Vice President, your primary focus will be to lead the Project Management and Fieldwork teams across our US offices, with a number of mid-senior direct line reports. You will be heavily involved in leading a transformation process to enable our fieldwork executives to develop their commercial and client-facing capabilities in alignment with the wider Research Partnership business. You will also be responsible for overseeing adjacent functions, such as data processing and scripting.

You will play a significant role in evolving the operations of the business and will be responsible for leading and inspiring our teams to develop and expand their capabilities. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across the business to examine and redefine current operational practices and also develop and embed new processes. You will also have a significant responsibility for training and coaching project managers and fieldwork executives, as well as scoping and defining their responsibilities.

• Significant responsibility for leading and implementing a transformation agenda
• Collaboration with senior stakeholders from across the business (e.g. Directors and Vice Presidents)
• Broad responsibility for managing external supplier relationships and ensuring these relationships are governed by wider financial and commercial goals of the business
• Line management of a team of experienced Fieldwork Executives within our Project Management and Fieldwork teams, as well as indirect management of their line reports
• Client-facing responsibilities, including supporting MSA renegotiations from an operational perspective
• Displaying leadership qualities and the ability to manage and filter down company messages and policy appropriately
• Develop and maintain positive team performance and attitude through coaching and mentoring and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management

About You… 

Your skills and experience:

• Significant experience in a senior operations role within healthcare market research, spanning both qualitative and quantitative project types
• Experience managing a number of direct line reports, as well as a wider team of project managers, developing their capabilities
• Strong commercial capabilities, with significant experience supporting both client and supplier negotiations (consisting of both individual RFPs and wider MSAs)
• Able to drive operational change throughout the business, partnering with senior stakeholders from across the business and ensuring full alignment on shared goals
• Very capable communicator 

Ideal profile:

• You are proactive, dedicated, and enthusiastic
• You demonstrate a high level of commercial and analytical nous
• You work well as part of a leadership team, able to understand competing priorities and challenges
• You have the drive and patience to embed new processes and ways of working across a diverse team
• You communicate ideas and issues in an effective, straightforward fashion
• You are highly motivated and are looking for an opportunity to step into a key, high profile leadership role in our organization

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 program 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

Employee Benefits:

• Remote and hybrid work options
• A comprehensive training and development program
• Opportunities for internal advancement
• Annual salary and promotion review
• Paid time off
• 401(k) plan with employee match
• Medical/vision/dental/prescription insurance plans, including heath savings and flexible spending accounts
• Company paid life insurance
• Short term/long term disability
• Commuter reimbursement accounts
• Employee assistance program

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 (1 day per week in the office) at our Yardley, PA location. We are also open to fully remote working options.

Our Pledge

At Research Partnership, we value inclusivity, recognize the power of diversity, and inspire the next generation of change-makers. We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in creating a work environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion. We aim to recruit from a diverse slate of candidates and foster an environment that provides the right conditions for long-term success. We welcome all applications regardless of race, color, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation and physical or mental disability.

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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.