Project Manager

As the leading health-system-affiliated, advanced real-world health data company, CuriMeta is committed to being a trusted partner who invests in, and creates, advanced health data and research solutions intended to close pressing gaps in evidence and insights across a diverse set of diseases.

At CuriMeta, we place people at the center of everything we do. We’re looking for people who are passionate about advancing health data and research solutions to solve urgent scientific and clinical challenges – and improve healthcare for all.

Following our launch in 2022, CuriMeta has continued to grow rapidly and we’re seeking new members to add to our expanding team! Help us build the future of advanced real-world healthcare data today.

Position Summary

CuriMeta is a fast-growing healthcare data organization. Our dynamic, fun and highly experienced team is looking for a pragmatic, detail-oriented Project Manager to help drive address challenges faced by our clients. The work we do is related to advancing products in development using our leading-edge healthcare data, technology and analytic resources.

As a Project Manager at CuriMeta, you will be a key member of our Data team tasked with maximizing the value of CuriMeta’s data assets at our client and academic medical center data collaborators. Our Data team works in a cross-functional environment with representatives from other experts such as our Technology and Solutions groups.

You’ll act as a liaison representing both our clients’ needs and our delivery team’s expertise to ensure that our customers and data providers are maximizing the benefit of their relationship with CuriMeta. You will interact with customers and our academic medical center data providers’ staff to hear their challenges related to data access, data quality and data analysis, subsequently generating ideas and solutions to help them resolve these challenges as they undertake their ground-breaking healthcare and medical research.

Our team operates multiple projects simultaneously. You will be engaged on these to ensure you understand the strategic relationship across the portfolio of work our team does. You can expect to discuss the technical details, and to offer creative solutions to implement our projects and their related data access challenges. Our clients will look to you when it comes to finding ways to accelerate their products’ development and to help them get their products into patients’ hands sooner.

The Project Manager is responsible for planning and overseeing projects operated by CuriMeta to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion and within budget and to clients’ or data collaborators’ satisfaction. The Project Manager will plan and designate project resources, prepare budgets, monitor, and direct progress to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of project outputs, and keep stakeholders informed the entire way. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

You will contribute to the development of healthcare data products and systems at CuriMeta and optimize the processes for access and use of our data providers’ health information. You will support the day-to-day activities of a mostly remote team working closely with operational, analytical, medical and clinical staff as well as customers and industry representatives.

Client / Customer-related duties

- Act as a liaison between clients and our delivery team staff to document and track progress against project requirements, timing expectations and content of outputs.

- Meet with customers to kick off projects, present project plans, deliver updates on status and discuss issues or changes.

Data Collaborator-related duties

- Act as liaison between data collaborator staff and CuriMeta teams to ensure clear documentation of requested data, timing for delivery, and reporting of progress.

- Work with Product Management and customer teams to gather, document, and submit requests for data resources and other content to data collaborators.

- Identify resources within the data collaborator staff to aid in the creation and delivery of new data products.

- Maintain metrics on data processing, and provide frequent reporting on progress as requested by management.

General Project Management-related duties

- Build and maintain a positive relationship with customers and internal CuriMeta team members.

- Collaborate across internal teams to anticipate, define, and satisfy CuriMeta data needs.

- Document project goals and objectives; create and adhere to project timelines and budgets.

- Schedule and attend meetings to manage the project communication, the resource plans and processes, and clearly record and follow up on project action items.

- Monitor progress towards project goals and report on any deviation from the project plan

- Meet regularly with project leadership and generate regular reports to keep them up to date

- Strong organizational skills, excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex data analytic or healthcare-related issues to an educated audience.

- Advanced understanding of relevant methodology, statistics and practical research implementation.

- General Skills and Experience

- Proven ability to frame a business issue, design the right solution, and deliver results.

- Ability to guide projects and teams.

- Experience working across departments and with Pharmaceutical and Biotech clients.

- Experience in Healthcare data strongly preferred.

- Highly detail-oriented, and extremely customer-focused.

Competencies

• Achievement Focus - Demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles. Measures self against standard of excellence. Recognizes and acts on opportunities. Sets and achieves challenging goals. Takes calculated risks to accomplish goals. 
• Communications - Exhibits good listening and comprehension. Expresses ideas and thoughts in written form. Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally. Keeps others adequately informed. Selects and uses appropriate communication methods. 
• Managing Customer Focus - Develops new approaches to meeting customer needs. Establishes customer service standards. Monitors customer satisfaction. Promotes customer focus. Provides training in customer service delivery.
• Managing People - Develops subordinates' skills and encourages growth. Includes subordinates in planning. Makes self-available to subordinates. Provides direction and gains compliance. Provides regular performance feedback. Takes responsibility for subordinates' activities.
• Planning and Organization - Integrates changes smoothly. Plans for additional resources. Prioritizes and plans work activities. Sets goals and objectives. Uses time efficiently. Works in an organized manner.
• Problem Solving - Develops alternative solutions. Gathers and analyzes information skillfully. Identifies problems in a timely manner. Resolves problems in early stages. Works well in group problem solving situations.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Ability: Read, analyze and interpret complex documents. Respond effectively to sensitive inquiries. Write speeches and articles using innovative techniques. Make persuasive presentations on complex topics to management, public groups and/or boards of directors.
• Mathematical Ability: Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Compute rate, ratio and percent, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Computer Skills: Basic Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Competency with at least one or more Project management systems and tools
• Certificates and Licenses: PMP or equivalent project management certification preferred.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Location: St. Louis, MO metropolitan area residency is preferred but remote/hybrid candidates will be considered. Regular travel to company meetings and client sites when appropriate. Regular travel to customer and collaborator sites in St. Louis, MO is required.

Benefits - Includes but not limited to:

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Life, Accident, and Disability Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Paid holidays

Discretionary/Flexible Vacation

Paid sick leave

Employee Assistance Program

CuriMeta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal background check, drug screen, education, and employment verification.

All applicants must have permanent U.S. work authorization.