Senior Program Manager - Clinical Data Platform

Senior Program Manager - Clinical Data Platform

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Pay Rate: C$100.00 C$105.00 / Hour (CAD)

Job Summary

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager / PM Consultant to support a large-scale clinical data platform initiative within the life sciences industry. The successful candidate will lead day-to-day execution across business, data, technology, and vendor teams, with responsibility for program planning, governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and overall delivery. This role requires someone who can operate comfortably between senior business stakeholders and technical delivery teams while maintaining strong ownership of timelines, dependencies, issues, and program outcomes. In practice, this role functions as a PM managing two large concurrent work streams within a data management program focused on data verification of clinical trial data, requiring coordination across a broad stakeholder landscape within a pharmaceutical client environment. The candidate must understand the implications of decisions in the pharma domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of a complex clinical data platform program.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Coordinate delivery across business, data, technology, consulting, and external vendor teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, governance forums, and executive status reviews.
• Maintain and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and decision logs.
• Proactively identify delivery risks and drive appropriate mitigation, escalation, and resolution.
• Track program progress against committed timelines and deliverables.
• Ensure clear ownership and accountability across cross-functional workstreams.
• Prepare concise status reporting and executive-level communications.
• Maintain alignment between business objectives, technical delivery, and overall program priorities.

Required Experience

• 5 10 years of experience in program management, project management, or consulting delivery.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale data, analytics, digital, or technology programs.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams, technology partners, and external vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, delivery risks, issues, and escalations.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, clinical research, or healthcare environments.
• Experience supporting clinical data platforms, clinical technology, data modernization, or analytics transformation initiatives.
• Previous experience working in client-facing consulting or professional services environments.

Required Skills

• Strong program planning, governance, risk management, dependency management, and execution capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced consulting environment.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with clinical data environments and associated business and technology stakeholders.
• PMP, Agile, or related project/program management certification.

About GTT

GTT is an NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. GTT is a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, an Alaska-based company and one of the largest Alaska Native-owned corporations. An Inc. 5000 honoree and one of SIA's Best Staffing Firms to Work For, GTT connects professionals with Fortune 500 organizations across IT, engineering, construction, utilities, life sciences, financial services, and healthcare throughout the U.S. and Canada. We're committed to diverse, inclusive workplaces and to placing people in roles where they can do their best work.

Job Number: 26-18057 Industry: Data & Analytics

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