Senior Project Coordinator

What if your ability to organize complex clinical trials is what helps new medicines reach patients faster? Fortrea Clinical Pharmacology Services (CPS) supports the earliest and most critical phases of clinical development. Our teams work across project management, clinical operations, data, biometrics, laboratories, and scientific functions to deliver early‑phase and complex multi‑site studies for global sponsors. From first‑in‑human studies to Phase 1B and exploratory programs, CPS generates the safety, tolerability, PK, and PD data that guide drug development decisions.

As our next Senior Project Coordinator you´ll be the right hand of our Project Managers, ensuring study deliverables and milestones are met. You´ll serve as the connection between various teams, helping to align their work with sponsor objectives and monitoring the progress of studies. This is a full‑time, permanent job based in the UK, offering a remote or hybrid working model. If you live in the Yorkshire area, you will have the option to work from our Leeds Clinical Research Unit, just a 7-minutes walk from the train station.

WHO YOU ARE

• Education: Degree in healthcare / life sciences.
• Experience in clinical research.
• Several years of hands-on experience coordinating clinical trials within a CRO, hospital-based research or academic research environment, as PC, study coordinator or similar.
• A solid understanding of how clinical studies are set up, delivered and maintained.
• Study and documentation know-how.
• Experience supporting or drafting study documents such as project plans, communication plans, trackers, or logs.
• Ability to read clinical trial protocols and extract key information to support study delivery.
• Working knowledge of TMF requirements and how documentation aligns with study milestones.
• Senior‑level ways of working.
• Confidence communicating with clients and internal teams about study status and next steps.
• Comfortable working independently across multiple studies with competing priorities.
• Experience mentoring or supporting less experienced colleagues within a study team.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Study coordination and delivery: Coordinate day‑to‑day activity across multiple clinical studies, including complex and multi‑site trials. Track timelines, milestones, and deliverables across competing priorities. Support study execution end to end, keeping work moving and visible.
• Client and stakeholder interaction: Step in as the client contact when the Project Manager is unavailable. Attend and contribute to client and internal study meetings. Respond to client questions with a clear understanding of study status.
• Study documentation and TMF oversight: Draft core study documents such as Project Management Plans, Communication Plans, Risk Registers, and Training Matrices. Review protocols and budgets to define documentation and TMF requirements. Maintain TMF completeness, trigger milestones, and coordinate document uploads.
• Planning, tracking, and tools: Build and maintain trackers, task lists, and study logs. Manage changing priorities and align timelines with Project Managers. Create bespoke trackers or tools when clients request non‑standard reporting.
• Team leadership and development: Mentor and support Associate PCs and PCs in their day‑to‑day work. Act as a senior team member, supporting colleagues and sharing best practice. Contribute ideas to improve processes and how the team works together.

If you´re ready to embark on a rewarding career that combines science, project management and the opportunity to advance medicine, join us today. Apply now and become part of an extraordinary journey.