Project Manager, Central Laboratory Services (Clinical Research)

TL;DR

Project Manager, Central Laboratory Services (Clinical Research): Leading CRO laboratory projects covering assay development, clinical testing, biorepository management, logistics, and study kitting with an accent on end-to-end planning, client delivery, budgets, and cross-functional leadership. Focus on managing complex clinical laboratory programs, mitigating technical and operational risks, optimizing processes, and maintaining performance against timelines, scope, and cost.

Location: Remote from Poland, Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, or the UK. International and domestic travel, including overnight stays, is required approximately 10–25% of the time.

Company

hirify.global provides clinical research and laboratory services supporting the development and adoption of novel therapeutics.

What you will do

• Lead central laboratory projects from conception through close-out, coordinating planning, execution, timelines, scope, budgets, and resources.
• Serve as the cross-functional and client-facing lead for new and ongoing clinical studies.
• Coordinate data management, inventory control, shipping procedures, data gathering, reporting, and project meetings.
• Monitor project performance, revenue, expenses, billing, metrics, and contracted deliverables; escalate variances and out-of-scope work.
• Assess and mitigate technical, project, business, and operational risks while ensuring compliance with standards, regulations, and client expectations.
• Maintain project documentation, improve processes, provide internal project management consulting, and mentor junior Project Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, engineering, or a related field.
• Professional experience as a Project Manager for central laboratories within a CRO, pharmaceutical, or biotech company.
• Fluent spoken and written English with strong listening, communication, presentation, interpersonal, and emotional intelligence skills.
• Strong project management, data analysis, critical thinking, research, reporting, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 applications.
• Ability to work remotely from Poland, Serbia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, or the UK and travel domestically and internationally approximately 10–25%.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement within the approved European locations.
• Client-facing collaboration with internal teams, vendors, and clinical research partners.
• Work focused on accelerating novel therapeutics through laboratory and clinical study services.
• Occasional extended work hours may be required to meet business demands.