Senior Manager, Vendor Management

Job Description:

• Lead day-to-day oversight and coordination of vendors supporting the late-stage program
• Track deliverables, timelines, risks, and performance with functional owners
• Coordinate vendors and internal teams, clarifying ownership and resolving handoffs and dependencies
• Establish and maintain integrated program and vendor timelines
• Track milestones, critical-path activities, interdependencies, and delivery-impacting changes
• Coordinate cross-functional and vendor meetings, including agendas, pre-reads, decisions, action items, and follow-up
• Support alliance management through effective relationships, communication, and operational issue resolution
• Partner with Clinical Operations, Clinical Data Management, Biostatistics, Regulatory, Safety, Quality, Finance, and other functions
• Monitor vendor deliverables and service levels and coordinate corrective actions
• Maintain visibility of risks, issues, decisions, assumptions, and dependencies; escalate matters requiring leadership attention
• Support governance forums and program reviews with status updates, dashboards, and recommendations
• Coordinate change control and scope updates, assessing impacts on timelines, resources, and study execution
• Promote consistent vendor ways of working, reporting, escalation, and documentation
• Identify coordination gaps and opportunities to improve vendor collaboration and program delivery

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, business, project management, or a related field
• Advanced degree or project management certification is a plus
• 8+ years of experience in clinical operations, clinical project management, vendor management, or alliance management within the biopharmaceutical or clinical research industry
• 3+ years of experience managing late-stage clinical studies, clinical vendors, or complex cross-functional workstreams
• Experience coordinating vendors and cross-functional teams supporting late-stage clinical studies or complex development programs
• Demonstrated ability to manage integrated timelines, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues across multiple workstreams
• Familiarity with clinical trial operations and common clinical service providers, including CROs, central laboratories, imaging providers, and technology vendors
• Experience facilitating vendor governance meetings and maintaining productive relationships across organizational boundaries
• Strong organizational and communication skills, including the ability to turn complex updates into clear status, decisions, and actions
• Sound judgment in identifying emerging risks, coordinating solutions, and escalating issues at the right time
• Ability to influence without direct authority and work effectively with stakeholders at different levels
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment with competing priorities and changing program needs

Benefits:

• Annual bonus eligibility
• Equity compensation
• Competitive benefits package