Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LVI Associates is seeking an IT Project Manager to oversee the delivery of AI-enabled products, clinical analytics solutions, and broader IT initiatives in pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare environments. The role manages cross-functional teams and project lifecycles from planning through production, while ensuring compliance with data privacy, validation, regulatory, and documentation requirements.
Responsibilities
- Manages the full delivery lifecycle of AI-enabled products and features, partnering with data science, engineering, and product teams from ideation through to production release
- Coordinates model development, validation, and deployment milestones for AI/ML initiatives, including data readiness, testing, and ongoing monitoring plans
- Leads implementation and enhancement projects for clinical analytical solutions (e.g. clinical reporting/dashboarding platforms and statistical computing environments), working closely with clinical operations, medical reviewers, and data management stakeholders
- Translates clinical and scientific requirements into actionable project plans in partnership with clinical and cross-functional teams
- Ensures AI and clinical analytics projects meet applicable data privacy, data integrity, and regulatory/compliance requirements, including 21 CFR Part 11, GDPR, and HIPAA where applicable
- Leads the end-to-end delivery of broader IT projects, including scope definition, planning, resourcing, budgeting, execution, and closeout, applying Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies as appropriate
- Develops and maintains detailed project plans, schedules, RACI, RAID logs, and status reports for stakeholders and leadership
- Identifies, tracks, and mitigates project risks and issues, escalating appropriately and driving resolution, while managing project budgets, forecasts, and vendor/contract commitments
- Coordinates cross-functional teams across IT infrastructure, application development, data/analytics, and QA, and facilitates governance activities such as steering committee updates, change control, and stage-gate reviews
- Ensures projects adhere to IT change management, validation, and documentation standards (including GxP/SDLC requirements), and manages vendor and system integrator relationships, including SOWs and performance tracking
Skills
- Holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Life Sciences, or a related field (an advanced degree is a plus)
- Brings 5+ years of experience managing IT projects, including infrastructure, applications, or data/analytics initiatives, with strong knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) and tools (e.g. Smartsheet, Asana)
- Has demonstrated experience managing AI or machine learning product initiatives from development through to deployment, with familiarity in model validation, MLOps concepts, and responsible AI/data governance principles
- Is proficient in using AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) to support project work
- Has experience with clinical analytical solutions or platforms (e.g. clinical data management, clinical reporting, or dashboards) within a pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare setting
- Demonstrates excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences, alongside strong analytical, problem-solving, and sound judgement under ambiguity
- Brings vendor and budget management experience
- PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, or an equivalent project management certification is preferred
- Industry experience in pharma/biotech/life sciences is strongly preferred
- Has an understanding of clinical data standards and systems (e.g. EDC, CTMS) and the regulatory landscape governing clinical analytics (preferred)
- Experience with Spotfire, Maxis AI, Veeva, and BOX applications is preferred
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