Project Manager, Business Development

CPC Clinical Research • Aurora, CO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Project Manager for New Business is responsible for leading and coordinating all activities associated with new business opportunities, from initial opportunity identification, to coordination of design meetings, to proposal coordination, and through contract execution and transition to delivery teams. This role serves as a central point of coordination across business development, operations, finance, legal, and technical teams to ensure new opportunities are planned, proposed, and launched efficiently, compliantly, and on schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, healthcare, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of experience in project management, business development, or proposal management.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, cross-functional projects with tight deadlines.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Operational knowledge of clinical trial execution is strongly favored in the context of discussing proposals and budgets.
• Experience in clinical research and ideally, operational knowledge of clinical research specifically clinical trial delivery.
• Familiarity with proposal development, budgeting, and contract workflows.
• Experience using project management or proposal tracking tools.
• Strong computer skills (MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook).
• High level of proficiency in scheduling and conducting in person and virtual meetings, use of budgeting tools, and ability to learn and adapt to new technologies as needed to facilitate work.
• Excellent organizational skills and great attention to detail.
• Ability to work as a member of a team and interact with individuals at different levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage conflicts and resolve problems effectively.
• Ability and willingness to occasionally travel.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the project manager for new business opportunities, including RFPs, RFIs, proposals, bids, and partnership discussions.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, deliverables, and responsibilities for each new business opportunity.
• Coordinate cross-functional contributors to ensure timely and high-quality proposal development.
• Track progress, risks, dependencies, and deadlines; proactively address issues to keep proposals on schedule.
• Present CPC capabilities to potential partners & funders.
• Partner interactions will span the full project life cycle including relationship initiation, proposal preparation and presentation, transition from proposal to contracting, project kickoff and transition to internal teams, project status updates to the partner and change management, and project closure.
• Develop and maintain positive business relationships with current and new customers; establish regular communication with current clients to provide ongoing updates on project spend, anticipated changes, etc.
• Act as the primary coordinator between business development, operations, finance, legal, and subject matter experts during the pre-award phase.
• Facilitate internal meetings related to new business pursuits, including planning sessions, reviews, and bid defenses.
• Ensure alignment on scope, assumptions, resourcing, and pricing throughout the proposal lifecycle.
• Support development and refinement of project budgets, schedules, and scope of work in collaboration with finance and operational leads.
• Track changes to scope or assumptions and ensure updates are communicated and documented appropriately.
• Assist with preparation of supporting documentation for pricing, contracts, and approvals.
• Lead or support the transition of awarded projects from new business into execution, ensuring a smooth handoff to delivery teams.
• Compile and organize project documentation needed for operational kickoff and onboarding.
• Ensure commitments made during proposal development are clearly communicated to execution teams.
• Work with the Contracts team on contract negotiations (including change orders and amendments), as necessary; ensure the scopes of work accurately align with the approved budgets.
• Maintain proposal trackers, dashboards, and status reports for leadership visibility.
• Identify opportunities to improve new business project management processes, tools, and templates.
• Support standardization of proposal management best practices.
• Perform other duties as deemed necessary.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life, STD, LTD etc.)
• Matching 401(k) plan (dollar for dollar up to 4% of your eligible compensation, fully vested immediately)
• 11 paid holidays
• 15 - 25 vacation days based on years of service
• Paid sick time (2.67 hours accrued bi-weekly up to a maximum of 80 hours)
• Monthly fun events (e.g. team building activities, games, charitable events, potlucks, picnics)
• Flexible and remote work schedules

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level