Associate Project Research Manager - Remote ($67800.00 - $133100.00 / Year)

Talentify helps candidates around the world to discover and stay focused on the jobs they want until they can complete a full application in the hiring company career page/ATS.

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The mission of Optum Epidemiology is to promote health by providing research that equals or exceeds that of the best academic institutions, and to develop tools that enable widespread use of health-care data to improve health. At Optum, our Epidemiology department conducts customized Epidemiologic research studies. We contract with clients to conduct custom studies, including observational safety studies to fulfill post-marketing regulatory commitments, comparative effectiveness research, and descriptive epidemiology/natural history of disease studies. We commonly utilize existing administrative claims or Electronic Health Records databases as the source of our study populations, supplemented by secondary sources (e.g., medical records, surveys, registries). Our client services often include the development of a protocol, performance of analysis, with the end-result being a report that is delivered to the client.

The Project Manager is responsible for ensuring quality and standards of excellence for cross-functional projects, their inter-dependencies and risks, and ongoing operations as directed by the project objectives, protocol, contract, and the Principal Investigator. In collaboration with a project team, the study sponsor and additional internal and external stakeholders the Project Manager is responsible for ensuring the overall integrity, coherence, and success. The Project Manager’s main remit is to identify and mitigate current and future risk so we may complete projects on time, on budget, in compliance, and with audit-ready and high quality reproducible results.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

Manage Epidemiology projects and key deliverables including:

• Act as primary coordinator for study sponsor, study team and other internal/external third parties (e.g., research partners, IRB, vendors, clinicians)
• Initiate and facilitate contracting activities with client, third party vendors and consultants while interfacing with Legal and Business Development
• Provide timely and accurate status reporting of milestones, risks, and finances to key stakeholders
• Contribute to the development of resources and guidelines for the Epidemiology department
• Identify all necessary reviews and approvals and facilitate study submission in collaboration with project team
• Coordinate data collection activities, including subcontractor contracts, finances, performance management
• Manage project plans, timelines, financials (revenue, invoices, budget,) scope, quality, and compliance
• Lead day-to-day operational management for assigned Epidemiology projects, assure adherence to SOPs, contractual requirements, oversee detailed timeline, budget, and resources for successful completion of deliverables
• Operational development of proposals, budgets, and contracts for new opportunities and amendments to existing work
• Ensure all project documentation are maintained up to date and are reflective of the current status of the project; lead internal/external audits as needed

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in a client-facing, project managemen
• Bachelor’s degree