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Healthcare Project Manager
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote
Experience
3 years
Job description
A Healthcare Project Manager role at Verian Lithuania (formerly PPMI) to lead large-scale, complex EU-funded healthcare projects, accountable for delivery from kick-off to final reporting. The role supports a growing public health and life sciences portfolio including cancer guidelines, evidence assessments and quality indicator development.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Independent contractor
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English – excellent written and spoken
- Pay
- EUR 4,000 – 4,500 / month
What you'll do
- 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
What we're looking for
- 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)
- Experience drafting policy or regulatory documents
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About Verian Lithuania (formerly PPMI)
A European policy research and evaluation consultancy working primarily for EU institutions (European Commission, JRC, DG SANTE, HaDEA, EUDA, ECDC) and international organisations (OECD, UN).
Key facts
- policy research and evaluation consultancy
- Public health and life sciences portfolio is growing fast
- Portfolio includes European guidelines for prostate cancer, evidence-based research prioritisation in the drugs field, GRADE evidence assessments, and quality indicator development following Cochrane
- Works primarily for EU institutions and international organisations
Partners & customers
European CommissionJRCDG SANTEHaDEAEUDAECDCOECDUN