The Study Project Manager is ultimately accountable for the planning, execution, issue resolution, and communication / communication planning required for successful execution of each assigned clinical study or designated internal project.
This includes holding planning meetings as needed with test facility or other personnel regarding study/project design, contract, timeline for prestudy activities (such as schedule, protocol, ethics committee, recruiting, documents, and data management), study/project execution, data analysis and clinical study report/other deliverables, and archiving.
During study/project execution, the Study Project Manager tracks project activities against the schedule, orchestrates all functions to identify and remove roadblocks, anticipates and resolves issues, and coordinates the participation of external resources.
The Study Project Manager may conduct a post-mortem analysis. The Study Project Manager is the central point of communication to the study Sponsor or project requestor, and sends updates on a scheduled basis including information from all relevant functional areas