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The Scientific Project Manager develops and proactively manages project timelines and is responsible for the scope of work including third party vendor involvement. The Scientific Project Manager adequately evaluates probability and impact of risk, develops and implements risk management plans to mitigate effect on project objectives and deliverables, and effectively navigates project budgets towards expected profitability.\n\nWhat You'll Do Here\nLiaise with pre-award team to facilitate an effective handoff, including sharing all documents, timelines and awarded scope\nPlan and execute internal and external project team meetings, and ensure action items are documented, circulated, and completed\nReview and evaluate awarded scope, identify any operational challenges, and suggest solutions with support and guidance from Management\nPrepare and host kick off meetings with internal study teams and client representatives\nMaintain client expectations and requirements, ensuring accessibility company-wide in Ask Albert.\nManage third party vendors as necessary, including overseeing contracting, milestones and billing/invoicing\nAssess out of scope activities for potential change orders\nEnsure critical milestones are met using autonomy and interpersonal skills \nEnsure appropriate documents are in place prior to project conduct, including CDA's and contracts\nWork with Quality Assurance to ensure GxP and regulatory compliance is maintained\nFacilitate Lessons Learned meetings\nParticipate in client visits, or host clients, as required\nProvide assistance to Business Development in promoting Altasciences' services\nClinical\nIndependently execute projects from study award through archival\nDevelop project-specific timelines and proactively manage the critical path to ensure on-time execution and delivery per scope of work\nAct as the central point of contact for all internal and external stakeholder inquiries during execution of a project and maintain effective and efficient communication with all parties\nManage and coordinate, along with the project team, any situation impacting project outcomes and escalate as appropriate\nCoordinate, review and approve project related documents including but not limited to protocols, informed consents, study manuals and plans, case report forms\nCreate and maintain Trial Master Files, and ensure inspection readiness\nSupport submissions to institutional review boards and regulatory agencies\nFacilitate process of identification, selection, initiation, monitoring, and close out of appropriate investigational sites\nContribute to protocol development regarding operational logistics\nConduct budget reconciliations and provide project accruals\nNonclinical\nIndependently oversee packages of nonclinical studies (including Support Services) from award through completion\nManage and track individual project resources needed throughout the study package. \nContribute to contingency planning for key resources and activities\nUnderstand Altasciences’ service lines and capabilities, to serve as a point of contact for internal and external stakeholder inquiries during execution of a nonclinical package\nDevelop and maintain appropriate tools, such as summary report, Gantt, financial trackers, communication plan, risk log, action trackers, etc. for each study package, ensuring that regular updates are provided to internal and external stakeholders. \nAssist in the leadership of the core team, including Study Directors, Principal Investigators, and third party vendors.\nCDMO\nIndependently execute projects from study award through archival\nDevelop project-specific timelines and proactively manage the critical path to ensure on-time execution and delivery per scope of work\nIdentify, assess and write change controls or quotations for out of scope activities \nWhat You'll Need to Succeed\nBachelor or higher level degree in Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Medicine, Sciences. Equivalent fields or experience may be considered.\nMinimum 4 years of CDMO, clinical or nonclinical research experience required, including a minimum of 2 years of related Project Management experience.\nAbility to travel for client visits, site visits and/or meetings (approx. 10%)\nSoftware: Microsoft Office, Client Relationship Management Systems, Electronic Case Report Forms, Electronic Trial Master Files, Timeline Management Software\nAltasciences strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec. Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the above-mentioned requirement. Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of Scientific Project Manager including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:\nThe requirement to have study protocols, designs and clinical research documents written and documented in English as required by industry regulatory agencies.\nThe employee communicates frequently with Altasciences employees across Canada and the United States. As such, English is the main language used to correspond between offices.\nThe employee frequently communicates with English-only customers outside the province of Quebec\nWhat We Offer\nAltasciences offers a wide range of benefits to help employees live healthy and satisfying lives, both on and off the job.\nAltasciences benefits include\nHealth/dental/vision insurance plans\nRRSP with employer match\nPaid vacation and statutory vacations\nPaid sick leave and bereavement leave\nEmployee assistance and telehealth programs\nAltasciences' incentive programs include\nTraining and development programs\nEmployee orientation bonus program\nAnnual performance reviews","description_format":"text","description_chars":5867,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Canada","iso":"CA","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Clinical Trial Services (CRO)","CRO & CDMO Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T19:17:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:17","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/altasciences-scientific-project-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/altasciences-scientific-project-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-09T12:19:06Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":15200,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-10T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1701273},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1701273"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faltasciences-scientific-project-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faltasciences-scientific-project-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faltasciences-scientific-project-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/altasciences-scientific-project-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faltasciences-scientific-project-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3830309}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"altasciences.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3830309},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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