Project Manager

The OpportunityI am supporting a long-standing client I have partnered with for several years to recruit an experienced Project Manager to join their expanding project function based in Newcastle upon Tyne. This organisation operates within the global health and research ecosystem, delivering impactful, data-driven projects for international partners, research bodies and pharmaceutical organisations.You will work directly with the newly appointed Head of Projects (who I recently placed), playing a key role in strengthening the organisation's project delivery capability and supporting a portfolio of scientific and data-focused programmes.If you have experience within pharmaceuticals, clinical research or academia, this would be highly advantageous, though strong, structured project management capability is the key requirement.What you'll be doing?

As Project Manager, you will lead and deliver a range of complex, multi-stakeholder projects, with a particular focus on:

• Managing data-driven programmes and evidence-generation projects
• Coordinating with international research registries and external partners
• Supporting pharmaceutical clients with data cuts, analysis preparation and reporting
• Running quality assessments and ensuring robust project governance
• Breaking down project plans, tracking progress, managing risks and providing clear reporting
• Strengthening processes, structure and delivery discipline within the wider team

Projects vary in scale from short 6-month assignments through to long-term multi-year programmes involving recurring data cycles. You will act as the key delivery lead on several of these, bringing clarity, organisation and rigorous planning.

What you'll bring:Essential

• Strong, demonstrable experience as a Project Manager
• Proven ability to build detailed project plans and track deliverables effectively
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, ideally across multiple external organisations
• Confidence leading complex, multi-party or data-centric projects
• Ability to introduce structure, challenge where required, and bring rigour to processes

Advantageous

• Experience working in pharmaceuticals, clinical research or academia
• Exposure to data, analysis or evidence-generation projects
• Understanding of working with clinicians, researchers or scientific environments

Why join?

• Opportunity to directly influence outcomes within global health and research
• Work closely with a newly appointed, forward-thinking Head of Projects
• Join an organisation with purpose, mission and international reach
• Hybrid working and a supportive, collaborative culture
• Salary up to £50,000