Healthcare Project Manager

About This Role

This project manager role involves leading large-scale, complex EU-funded healthcare projects, ensuring successful delivery from kick-off to final reporting. The work includes managing budgets, timelines, teams, and client relationships for high-profile EU clients with demanding delivery standards. The position suits an experienced project manager with a good understanding of systematic reviews and guideline development.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects end to end: work planning, timelines, budgets, risk management and quality assurance of deliverables
• Manage several projects and workstreams in parallel, setting priorities and allocating resources across teams
• Act as the main point of contact for EU clients, including inception, interim and final reporting in line with contractual requirements
• Lead multidisciplinary teams of researchers, review methodologists, external experts and consortium partners
• Organise and steer working groups, expert panels and stakeholder consultations
• Oversee the planning and quality of systematic reviews, GRADE assessments, guideline development and quality indicator work, in close collaboration with methodologists
• Drive the use of innovative and AI-assisted review tools in project workflows
• Lead or contribute to tenders and proposals for EU evidence synthesis and health contracts

Requirements

• PhD in public health, epidemiology, health sciences or a related field
• Proven track record of managing large-scale, complex projects (e.g., multi-year, multi-partner contracts with several parallel workstreams), ideally EU-funded healthcare or public health projects such as service or framework contracts with the European Commission and its agencies, EU4Health or Horizon Europe
• Experience holding full responsibility for project budgets, timelines, risk management and contractual reporting
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing senior client and stakeholder relationships
• Excellent written and spoken English

Nice to have:

• Understanding of how systematic reviews and clinical guidelines are developed (e.g., Cochrane methodology, PRISMA, GRADE, Evidence-to-Decision frameworks)
• Hands-on systematic review experience as an author or review team member
• Experience in cancer evidence review, such as screening, diagnosis, treatment guidelines or HTA
• Track record of writing or leading successful EU tender proposals
• Experience with AI/ML tools in evidence synthesis or health data analysis (e.g., AI-assisted screening, text mining, bibliometrics)
• Publications in cancer, screening, HTA or guideline development
• Familiarity with review and analysis tools (e.g., RevMan, GRADEpro, Covidence, R, Python)